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’wing remains a rare beast. However, a well designed swept ’wing will possess unique qualities. It will circle and climb effortlessly in thermals at quite extraordinary angles of bank. It will also be very stall resistant, and compared to a similar spanned and loaded plane, a ’wing will tend to be quicker. Also to my eye they just look so damn elegant, which I guess is why I just can’t stop building them! A few years back I found myself living a fair distance from my favourite slope, but had a playing field nearby that I could fly from. I decided to build a ‘wing with an electric motor setup for flat field thermaling. I selected a thick EH wing section, the cores came out fine (using pink foam) so I made an attempt to bag them using wax paper. Unfortunately the finish was less than impressive with numerous air bubbles in the lay-up. I threw the whole lot in the back of the garage and left them there to sulk. A year later I moved house and they moved with me, but sat in the shed for another year. Then a few weeks ago I stumbled across the cores again and made an impromptu decision to sling them together as a rough and ready light 40 The 2 meter wing, flaps deployed coming in. Photo by Steve Hunt R/C <strong>Soaring</strong> <strong>Digest</strong>
The 2 meter wing makes a low pass. Photo by Steve Hunt December 2010 41
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