Rebuilt Lil' Satan

Man that's cool! I got a NIB Goldberg kit. I wanna build it, but then i won't have a nib Goldberg kit.... Lol
I think brodak sells them. I gotta buy another one to build. Mine was a gift from a friend, so it's kinda neat to have.

Looks good Jim!

Sometimes the end does justify the means.

Ron

It looks great. Those little planes are really badass fast and hilariously fun with Tee Dee power, I love to fly mine for an audience. Ron has flown mine too.

I have two suggestions for Dane and anyone else thinking of building one... add 1/4" square balsa spars to round out the airfoil, and it will fill in the starved horse rib bays and give it more lift. If I did it today, I would have added them to the high point, but it still worked for me. As you can see, I also face mounted some shear webs, but didn't do them exactly right, they should have been full width between the ribs. I was still learning a lot back then. It was my first scratch build.


Also if you are going to use modern adhesive covering like Monokote, you should add about 1/2" of width to each side of the center sheeting so as to have plenty of area to iron the covering onto. This is because you have to cut away a strip to expose balsa to glue the booms onto. With silkspan I guess you just glue the booms right onto it at the edge of the sheeting. You can see where I realized this after I had already partially installed the original sized sheeting.
Rusty

Here's Cribbs zinging it around:
https://youtu.be/wdpTRjIvApE

Thanks guys,

On the last one I built I omitted half of the ribs and added 1/16 sheeting back to high point of the airfoil. I would have done that on this one but I wanted to keep it original as it was built from the kit.

I tried to get video today but my phones storage is full.

JPvelo wrote:Thanks guys,

On the last one I built I omitted half of the ribs and added 1/16 sheeting back to high point of the airfoil. I would have done that on this one but I wanted to keep it original as it was built from the kit...

That's a better idea than the spars. Easier too,
Rusty