Loved the poetic narration Slater! Sculpting the air with fingers! Reminded me of the language Faraday used in his Christmas lectures on Chemical History of Candle and Carl Sagan.
Thanks Ashutosh. Yes, I like tactile-kinesthetic nature of hand flight. Kids who learn that way are often shortchanged by education systems that favor other ways. I enjoyed going back and looking at your project videos again.
Very nice intro to thin sliced foam! How thin can you go? I guess it all depends on the turbulence of the air which crumples the super thin sliced foam. Funny how you need to create the calmest air to fly thinner and thinner sliced foam gliders. I remember flying with Michael Thompson in his apartment. We would run the air conditioner for a while and shut it off to create a stable air mass.
When I started with denser foam and thicker gliders, I used aluminum foil--rolled into a wire--and twisty ties (used to close bags) as weights. Now that I found lighter foam and cut it thinner, I used copper "magnet wire". Just regular printer paper works well for the Jagwings. Bits of tape added or cut off are good for fine trimming, as does bending the weight more forward or back to micro-adjust the CG. But I think whatever you have for weight is good. Regarding your MacCready glider, there's a good interview with Paul's son Tyler, linked from the same page that links to David, Phil and Mike's pages, above. He talks about how they invented walkalong gliders and sold them. Although Tyler called them "walkalong" gliders, I also like the "walk behind" name you used.
@@sciencetoymaker fascinating how the paper used to make paper airplanes becomes heavy as lead relative to thin sliced foam. I just use a slice of copier paper, not even folded, as ballast on my thin sliced foam gliders.
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Loved the poetic narration Slater! Sculpting the air with fingers! Reminded me of the language Faraday used in his Christmas lectures on Chemical History of Candle and Carl Sagan.
Thanks Ashutosh. Yes, I like tactile-kinesthetic nature of hand flight. Kids who learn that way are often shortchanged by education systems that favor other ways. I enjoyed going back and looking at your project videos again.
Very nice intro to thin sliced foam! How thin can you go? I guess it all depends on the turbulence of the air which crumples the super thin sliced foam. Funny how you need to create the calmest air to fly thinner and thinner sliced foam gliders. I remember flying with Michael Thompson in his apartment. We would run the air conditioner for a while and shut it off to create a stable air mass.
Very creative camera angles!!!
Brilliant.
What is the best nose weight you've found?
Love the whole walk behind gliders!
I've flown them for many years....
Still have one from mccreedy! LOL
When I started with denser foam and thicker gliders, I used aluminum foil--rolled into a wire--and twisty ties (used to close bags) as weights. Now that I found lighter foam and cut it thinner, I used copper "magnet wire". Just regular printer paper works well for the Jagwings. Bits of tape added or cut off are good for fine trimming, as does bending the weight more forward or back to micro-adjust the CG. But I think whatever you have for weight is good.
Regarding your MacCready glider, there's a good interview with Paul's son Tyler, linked from the same page that links to David, Phil and Mike's pages, above. He talks about how they invented walkalong gliders and sold them.
Although Tyler called them "walkalong" gliders, I also like the "walk behind" name you used.
@@sciencetoymaker fascinating how the paper used to make paper airplanes becomes heavy as lead relative to thin sliced foam. I just use a slice of copier paper, not even folded, as ballast on my thin sliced foam gliders.
i can do tharmacoal also
Im curious how much do the foam paper slices weigh?
I just weighed mine (identical to the one at 1:08) it was 0.13 g
@@FreeFlightDigest thats really light might use it
thanks