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Model Forum / General / Models / March 2006Gribovskii G-29 (G-11)
My turn to ask for help. While I work on turning the wings into something with an airfoil I could use some help with references. Gunston's book shows plans with two windows/escape hatches in the roof. The two photos in L&K show no such windows. Hatches or windows? Gunston's says one door on the left side. Kit has one on each side. One or two? Keeping it simple I'm only doing the cockpit with a little of the cabin floor and benches. The rest can't be seen unless the door(s) are open. This is the Politechnika kit. Is the AER SRL Moldova kit the same parts under a different label? TIA Tom Back in the first volume of "Air Enthusiast" monthly there was a series of articles on gliders of the world. I don't know whether the info you seek is there as mine are packed in downstairs by my son's computer junkyard and I'm too lazy to go down and dig them out. BTW, I have one of those half-built too. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. Thanks Bill. I'll get to the MAI library in the morning. Too cold right now. Snow and hail at sea level this evening. San Francisco is blanketed. Beautiful sight as long as you don't have to drive in it. Tom > Thanks Bill. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Tom It's been some 20 years now, since I've been to Frisco. I can vividly remeber the fog rolling in over the mountains. I think we were sitting in Golden Gate Park, or something. stayed in Palo Alto for a month. Great times. (as far as I can remember) Cheers, Denis >Thanks Bill. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Tom are sf drivers the whackos they were 30 years ago? > >Thanks Bill. > > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > > are sf drivers the whackos they were 30 years ago? I think the weather had something to do with the mess on 101 today. Apparently driving in that is novel for Californians. Anything in the desert? Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. >> In article <1142061637.293705.183570@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. hail yes! see above. didn't stay, got some rain, wind and damned cold. barel 50 today. > Thanks Bill. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Tom Cool! We might get some snow on Friday if we're really good. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. >Path: >> Thanks Bill. >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > >Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. we got hail and i'm pissed. spring is late in the high desert. i finishe restoring my new bike and it's ready to ride. i actually fixed and restored a bad wiring problem. i consider electrical the hardest work on a motorcycle. previous owner, a dumb kid, wired it to start and run directly off the stator. fine for a dirt or race bike, but it kills the lighting system. after 4 hours with a vtvom and no luck, i peeled the ground wire off the hot lead and woosh! i had lights. sort of. the rear turns didn't work becuse the numbnuts had run the hot leads outside the nuts and washers, so they were immediately sliced after tightening down. so i had to pull the rear fender. hmm, it's kind of dinged up. look in the spares box...hey, a new one and a clean one. on goes the clean one. the removed one goes on the resto pile. so i bolted it all together, tore down the carb for cleaning, replaced the front tire, (dry rot city.) then i put on a spares box master cylinder for the front, added another disc and converted to twin fronts. after all that, the freakin weather goes south! wheres my spring!? Aside from looking forward to my bulb plants showing up I'm not overjoyed that Summer's on the tracks ahead. Aw well, grit my teeth and bear it, I guess. Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. >Aside from looking forward to my bulb plants showing up I'm not >overjoyed that Summer's on the tracks ahead. Aw well, grit my teeth and >bear it, I guess. > >Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr. winter wierdo! "e" <someone@some.domain> wrote in > after all that, the freakin weather goes south! > wheres my spring!? And east... the weather wench predicted low 80s and sunny tomorrow w/o the 20mph winds and rain of the last few days here in Dixie. Guess who's firing up the Hog tomorrow. Been riding in the mid 60s here and there the last couple of weeks, but tomorrow looks like first day I can get by without my windshield and without long sleeves. Hoo-yah! WmB Um, I know that this has nothing to do with motorcycles, but here's the update on the G-29 quick build. Sealed the starboard door, closed the port door, removed the heavy bands on the wings (they were way overscale with the top wider than the bottom), removed the skid on the belly. It's molded on each half of the fuselage and a new skid is a lot easier that filling, sanding and polishing what was there. The plastic is very thin and I cut a hunk out of the keel on one side. Blanked it off and added a little bit of putty. Now to the sanding. Still looking for more or better references. Tom >Um, I know that this has nothing to do with motorcycles, but here's the >update on the G-29 quick build. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Tom how dare you be on topic!? is it a fun build? A fun build? I guess so if you like one hell of a lot of sanding and polishing. The somewhat soft, very thin (in places) plastic is very reminisent of late Frog kits, as are the layout of the parts on the sprue and the clear parts.Fit is pretty good with the exception of the fuselage halves which were slightly bowed at each end. Easilly fixed with a bit of warm water and some rubber bands. Tube glue instead of cyanoacrylates to allow for a little bit of adjusting. To be continued. Tom |
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