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I'll make the statement that 90% of the persons that has visited my homepage, once upon a time he or she has been a little boy or girl that played with small free flying models. Well in fact I'll make the statement that 100% of the people visiting has been a little boy or a little girl. If you haven't please drop me a mail - you might know something about aerodynamics in outer space that I'm longing to know about ;-).

I have too been a little boy playing with models - well in fact I have never lost it completely. I do still build small free flying gliders or small rubber driven models occasionally. The last I made was a scaled up version of the Fiddlers Green Wright 1902 glider, made in depron and balsa. I made it in December 2003 both for fun and because I wanted to show and tell my pupils about the Wright brothers and the celebration of their first powered and man controlled flight 100 years ago in 1903 at Kitty Hawk. It flies great. I have also build a Peanut trainer version of a model called "Rudder Bug" that appeared in a copy of Frank Zaic's books that I hope that my father has forgotten he ever had ;-).

I will not go as deep into the free flight subject as I have done with the other subjects around these pages, but I have found some links that might entertain you and/or your kids for a while.

Drawings:

A new version of the AMA cub - the Denny Dart 2 with building instructions and advice.

A page with a few free plans (and a lot more for sale) for folded paper models that can be converted to larger depron models or inspire you to something else - Fiddlers green - you can even color print them, cut them and build them as they are.

A very nice page with drawings of genuine HLG gliders and a very good description of a "Thermal Scouts" project

Peanut scale plans

Free flight links galore and more by Derek Buckmaster

At http://groups.yahoo.com/group/simpleflyers there is also a load of information and online chatting about this subject - including loads of drawings and instructions on simple models matters. You'll have to sign up.

http://www.aeromaniacs.com/Freeplans.htm

http://www.smallflyingarts.com/Free_Plans/free_plans.htm

How to build a peanut model - a thread

Build a "Walkalong" - here is the plan - and a  thread about Walkalong