AUNT AMELIA'S AERO CLUB

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22111, 5 June 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)

AUNT AMELIA'S AERO CLUB

AUNT AMELIA’S LITTLE NIECE Fanny Fledgling Makes a Happy Landing Poor old Aunt Amelia has been thinking so bard about model aeroplanes lately that she has developed Bust crael pains in her propeller. At last she has done this glider called the Fledgling. Dear old Aunt *Srt Amelia from a. W.a» red tonnel, "we •« *_ maim « wiijw ’ge most careful to make it exactly to my instructions, otherwise it wont fly. Gliders S wWch fly are not much good for Lady Gay's Christmas Mission or for anything Vise, are they?”

There are five parts to this glider, Hie fuselage, the incidence block, the rudder, the elevator, and the Wing. Some of these names are *> long they are rather frightening, hit boys and girls, if you are (Hog to make gliders and model aeroplanes you must get used to such words as fuselage and ln*wence block. , To make the fuselage, cut a stick Jf- balsa wood Jin square and long. Shape it the same as the 'iDodel shown and sandpaper it. Cat two slots in the tall of the BMelage as shown —one for the 1 ladder and the other for the elevator. Both are l-16in thick - IJin long. '-Cut the incidence block from the •erne Wood 5-lflin thick, Jin wide, »«d Sfln long. This piece of wood •Mends fin In front of the wing lIK fin at the back of the wing, f fy* you must sandpaper this block ifc,

down to Jin thick at the back. The incidence block is most important because it makes the leading edge of the wing (that is, the front edge) higher than, the trailing edge (the back edge), which helps the model to fly better.

27-16 in long or high. Round off the edge as shown in the illustration and cement it in the slot cut for it in the fuselage. The elevator is cut from balsa wood l-16in thick, liin wide, and sin long. Round off the ends with a compass set for lin radius circle. Cement the finished elevator in the slot prepared for it in the fuselage. See that it is parallel with the top of the fuselage stick. Now cement the wing on to the incidence block. Attach the wing and incidence block Sin behind the nose of the fuselage stick with a rubber band looped over both ends of the incidence block which stick out. Cut a groove in the front end of the fuselage to hold a weight—a nail or a piece of lead will do. If the completed Fledgling dives when you fly it, that means you have too much weight in the slot; if it stalls up you must increase the weight.

The wing, is cut l-16in balsa wood. Cut it 2in wide and 15in long, and round off the 'wings exactly with a compass set for 1m radius, and sandpaper until smooth. The rudder is cut from sheet balsa l-16in thick, IJin wide, and