Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Adi's DLG balsa glider

Hello All,

I always follow RC community in general.
I get really fascinated by DLG gliders and I would like to start building them myself.
At start I decided to go with balsa to learn how to build and fly this type of planes.
I will try to include my progress in this build log.
This is my design of the wing. I plan to make 1.5m glider however this wing can be easy scale down to 1m or any between.
I updated design of the wing. I use AG03 airfoils and at the end it transform to something similar to AG11. End of the wing will be cut from epoxy laminate. Carbon one would be better but I will use what I have now. Airfoils at wing end are flat so it should nice connect to laminate. Laminate will be covered by shaped balsa wood to finish it.