Jet Catapult Glider Flights of the English Electric Canberra / Martin B-57

[@MyBlueZed]

Greetings and much love from Canberra Australia! ❤️❤️🇦🇺

[@joshuawfinn]

Highest launches I've seen from a jet can model that big!

[@leonardwilliams8109]

Very cool! I always loved the old AJ Interceptors from my childhood. The wings folded back along the fuselage for launch, then deployed at the top of the climb for glide.

[@iansalmon6327]

Thank you for posting this. Until recently I hadn't built any free flight planes for about 30 years, but I'm now building some chuck gliders, catapult gliders and simple rubber powered aircraft to introduce my young kids to model building and flying. We've been having a lot of fun with a catapult F-86 (plans from Outerzone) and it's great to see how the pros do it. That height and transition are impressive indeed!

[@ricardoaguilar4602]

Lindo y hermoso video, donde todo se conjuga para hacerlo muy bello, el avion ( me parece que es un camberra) el paisaje de tierras y campo, el cielo de una bella tarde( creo) y la bellicima y relajante musica lo convierten en un video muy especial. Saludos desde San Francisco de Campeche, en el sureste de la Republica Mexicana.

[@williamrobinson7435]

It's amazing what can be achieved with this simple aeromodeling medium, but not everyone of us has the level of skill on show here! Truly impressive. Nice one! 👍

[@indoorglidiator3285]

Elegant flights. Shows the transition from climb to glide clearly. CLG flying is a world by itself and can be as exciting and satisfying as any other firm of Aeromodelling.

[@flymachine]

Here in SA we call it Canberra, she served faithfully in SAAF for many years and was one of the unsung heroes in fact of the Bush War. It shouldn't surprise me having watched so many of your amazing builds, but I am impressed by the flights and fun you get out of a simple profile catapult glider

[@PeterScholl621]

Amazing flight glider 😮

[@NighthawkGliders]

Malav! What a great build! You trimmed it perfectly! The transition and glides are so buttery smooth! That plus perfect backdrop of clouds also makes for a great video! 👍😊

[@ratride1]

Haven’t heard from you guys lately.

[@NighthawkGliders]

@@ratride1 Yeah, it’s been a while… I suppose we have a story to tell. Hoping to get back at it soon.

[@keithkennedy-tyson8578]

Thanks for bringing back great memories

[@malakiblunt]

the simplest pleasures - a delight

[@cal-native]

Love the ground level shot of the launch. Really captures the breathtaking zoom of the initial climb out!

[@michaelwhinnery164]

Really Impressive

[@PLA5207]

Magnificent video: both the flights and the accompanying music. TY Mr. Shah and Mr. Hallman.

[@sylvainponchelet646]

thanks you

[@hdvades]

Malav did a minute plus flight yesterday with this plane.

[@thomasarnold9747]

Zounds!! How do you get that incredibly smooth transition at the top of the shot? There was none of the usual loss of altitude......this alone is very impressive.

[@sledawgpilot]

As a kid, mine would have gone up that high, stalled and come straight back down

[@robedmunds7163]

Nice

[@lindamcentaffer5969]

Cool. I'd think if a model of the Spy Version with the huge wings were tried, you'd probably need a DT for it. In the late 50s / early 60s, I was pretty good at H. L. G. Since I can't throw like a good Pitcher any more, this is something I could do. :)

[@walk4718]

Amazing flights with such a simple design

[@jaybarua7095]

Ah, a Canberra in Indian colors! I made one decades ago, along with a Hunter. They were smaller and flew OK but not as well as this one. I might just try this out. Both make great gliders. Thanks for the plans.

[@CheshireTomcat68]

Fantastic. Imagine that hitting a thermal. Hope he has his contact details on it!

[@strikeeaglemodels1588]

Poetry in motion 😊👍

[@danpatterson8009]

Is there some mechanism for a change in elevator pitch between vertical ascent and gliding? I'd think a fixed pitch that made it glide well would cause it to loop immediately after launch.

[@Hoverbatic]

good idea! But something as small and light as these FAC Jets it is very challenging to implement such. Most of us painstakingly adjust the decalage with tabs or very thin bond paper or masking tape etc. till we get it correct .Regards, Malav

[@danpatterson8009]

All I can say is, I never got my Guillow gliders to do that. I imagine a flexible tab, or an elevator on a flexible hinge, could be blown flat at launch speeds and then increase in incidence when the airspeed drops off. Still would take some fiddling to get it right.

[@davidduganne5939]

Gurney tab on stab TE.

[@Hoverbatic]

@@davidduganne5939 yes. That is what i have, a masking tape for gurney flap.

[@hummingbirdmodelproducts2691]

@@danpatterson8009 The key is to have the CG in the correct spot so that you can run a near zero decalage. Then its is fairly easy as long as the stab is are enough and the is enough tail volume to allow for recovery. The guillows gliders had a forward CG and therefore required lots of decalage which results in a model that is very sensitive to velocity changes (stable glide when slow but loop at speed).

[@eddierocker666]

Where is the work plan? Thanks and very god job and flight. Grettings from Chile

[@maxfliart]

Thx. The download link is in the description below the film.

[@VC27]

Oh Lord! Isn't she beautiful! You bring back many old memories - where can get hold of these plans? Please!

[@davidduganne5939]

Click "Show More" in the video description above...

[@ratride1]

Getting some lift over the plowed sections. Would have been stronger if the sun was out more. Nice. Do you have any catapult gliders?

[@Hoverbatic]

catapult gliders : kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2ixoJqAp5h2ipo

[@ivansaenz205]

Hello, you built a great model. I cannot open the link. Please help..

[@PS-nf3xw]

Are those indian airforce roundels?

[@Hoverbatic]

Yes.

[@eddierocker666]

hello. I would like to ask some questions: 1. How many grams of ballast did you put in the model's nose. 2. At what percentage of the wing chord is the CG? Thank you

[@malavshah5997]

The CG range is shown on the plans. Your actual CG for a good flight maybe different .I built two of this model. The first one came about 1/8 inch behind the recommended forward mark of the CG as shown on the plan. The one in this video came out about 3/32 inch ahead of the forward mark on the plan. It all depends on the wood you selected for the various parts, amount of glue etc. The model in the video used about 1 gram of weight. My other model used about .75 grams of weight. CG as shown on the plan is the recommended range by the builder not fixed. Depending on your CG that makes your airplane fly best will require different weights.

[@paulholmes1181]

plan link doesn't work for me

[@maxfliart]

Not sure what the issue is, since it works for me. www.hallmanstudio.com/Canberra_Plan.pdf

[@paulholmes1181]

all sorted now cheers from New Zealand