Aeromodelling attracts both children and adults who want to create working models of gliders and airplanes with their own hands. Despite the fact that a large assortment of various aircraft models is presented in stores today, it is much more interesting to make your own model that reproduces the features of a real glider and is able to fly. We will tell you how to assemble a flying glider in this article.
Instructions
Step 1
Start making your model with a life-size working drawing. For the drawing, you will need a large sheet of paper, a square, a pencil, and a ruler. First, make a drawing of the wing. To do this, draw a straight line on the paper and divide it into eight parts.
Step 2
Place a ruler parallel to the line you have drawn and draw perpendiculars opposite each line segment. Set aside the length of the ribs (120 mm) on the outermost perpendiculars. Connect the resulting points with one more line. Then make a drawing of the stabilizer and keel.
Step 3
For the fuselage, use a 70 cm long wooden rail with a section of 10x6 mm. You will also need a pine board 6 cm wide and 10 mm thick for the weight to be sanded.
Step 4
For the wing edges, use a 68 cm long strip with a 4x4 mm cross-section. Make the curvatures of the wings from aluminum wire or thin wooden slats specially dipped in hot water and bent around a cylindrical surface.
Step 5
Connect the fillets to the edges by fitting them together. Also make the same curved ribs for the wing. In order for them to be the same, use a block of wood to bend them, curved in the shape of the upper contour of the wing profile.
Step 6
Use thin strips with a length of 14 cm and a section of 3x2 mm as materials for the ribs. The slats must be soaked in hot water and pulled over the wing on the machine.
Step 7
On the edges of the wing, make small slots for installing the ribs and glue them inward. After installing the ribs, the wings must be bent into a V-shape by wetting the edges in hot water, and then heating them over a candle flame. To attach the wing, make V-struts from steel wire and pine planks.
Step 8
Also take two 40 cm staves for the stabilizer and one 40 cm stub for the keel. Heat them up and bend them.
Step 9
To attach the stabilizer to the fuselage, use a timber strip 11 cm long and 3 mm high. The stabilizer is tied to this bar with threads. Make nests in the strip at the edges of the stabilizer and insert the sharp ends of the keel into them.
Step 10
Assemble the entire model and cover it with tissue paper.
