{"id":9506,"date":"2022-10-05T19:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T23:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/blog\/?p=9506"},"modified":"2022-10-05T19:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T23:14:41","slug":"new-short-kit-the-peanut-aircraft-designs-stallion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volareproducts.com\/new2024\/new-short-kit-the-peanut-aircraft-designs-stallion\/","title":{"rendered":"New Short Kit – the Peanut Aircraft Designs Stallion"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you can’t wait, you can find the Short Kit HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 Download printed tissue template for this color scheme HERE<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong>Scroll down for the rest of the story (and a test flight video!)…<\/p>\n

The Aircraft Designs “Stallion” has been a favorite of mine since I saw the February 1995 issue of Private Pilot on the newsstand in my local supermarket.\u00a0 I bought the magazine immediately.\u00a0 There wasn’t such a thing as “searching the internet” back then, so this was a great source of scale documentation.\u00a0 I was (and still am) always on the lookout for high-wing airplanes with retract gear and without struts.\u00a0 I took it home and quickly started to lay out a Peanut plan.\u00a0 I built two Peanuts – if I remember, #1 was smashed and #2 flew away.\u00a0 This is the long-awaited third Peanut, built as a prototype for a laser-cut short kit.<\/p>\n

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Feb 1995 Private Pilot magazine and the Aircraft Designs Stallion<\/p><\/div>\n

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the inside of the magazine with an early CAD Peanut plan.<\/p><\/div>\n

The build is “typical” – no surprises or complications.\u00a0 It is a box fuselage with a few formers and stringers.\u00a0 I designed it to be light, so I used light wood and many of the formers and stringers are from 1\/32″ sheet.\u00a0 My target weight was the unobtainable 5 grams.\u00a0 I hit 7 grams, due to a 3D printed prop and spinner.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to keep it light because my goal was to fly it on a loop of 1\/16″ rubber.\u00a0 I am pretty sure I lost #2 flying in the McCook Squadron’s “Watson Challenge” – where you can fly any plane with a 24″ strand of 1\/8″ (I stripped it down to 2 strands of 1\/16″).\u00a0 My records also show that the old one weighed 5.5 grams – but it may have been more, as I only had a homemade balance beam back then.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I also tried a bunch of “new” things on this model.\u00a0 I installed one of my light-weight mini Gizmo Geezer Nose Buttons (read about them HERE<\/a>).\u00a0 Also (as noted in the linked article), I’ve been working with Archie Adamisin on 3D printed propellers.\u00a0 I put one of his on my Peanut Corsair and had great luck.\u00a0 This time, I wanted to replicate the 3-bladed propeller on the full scale aircraft, so I took one of his 3D files and modified it what I imagined would be a good prop for the model.\u00a0 This one is a 3-Blade of 4″ diameter, 5″ pitch, and a 0.4″ blade width.\u00a0 it looks quite scale!<\/p>\n

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The prop is driven by a Garami-style clutch bound to one of the blades and one of my tiny 3D-printed Clutch Drivers.\u00a0 This is all hidden under a 3D printed Spinner.\u00a0 The prop and necessary equipment added just about 1.5 grams to the build.\u00a0 So, between all that plastic and the sheeted nose (1\/64″ balsa), I probably could have saved between 1\/2 and 1 gram of weight.<\/p>\n

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As the beautiful fall day warmed up and started to burn off the dew this afternoon, I loaded up a 10″ loop of 1\/16″ rubber and headed out to the back yard.\u00a0 After a little bit of added tail weight and a few twists on the adjustable nose button screws, I got some pretty decent test flights.\u00a0 Here is the one I filmed.<\/p>\n