Has anyone on this group have experience with the Estes Sweet Vee?
Comments, good or bad?
Keith
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18 years ago
Estes Sweet Vee
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18 years ago
Sweet
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18 years ago
Yup. It flies quite well. I use a reloadable aerotech casing and just
don't put in the ejection charge. It is quite a bit heavier than most
modern gliders, but it is fun to fly. I can keep it in the air longer than
the Strato Blaster or Astro Blaster. I would like to get hold of an
Aerotech Phoenix to round out my fleet, but I have not had any luck yet.
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18 years ago
Pegasus Hobbies in Montclair, CA might still have one.
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18 years ago
Flown all the Estes RCRG's. The Sweet Vee flies well, being a far superior
design aerodynamically to the Astro or Strato Blaster. But it ended up being
a bit heavy pig in production - thus on BP D's or E's it is somewhat lame,
though CHAD staging makes it more fun. As mentioned below if you put some
more moxie behind it with a 24mm RMS you would be more happy. If you can
find an AT Phoenix somewhere it is a riot to fly and outperforms these
others like night and day.
Mike D
Mike D
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18 years ago
Flown all the Estes RCRG's. The Sweet Vee flies well, being a far superior
design aerodynamically to the Astro or Strato Blaster. But it ended up being a
bit heavy pig in production - thus on BP D's or E's it is somewhat lame, though
CHAD staging makes it more fun. As mentioned below if you put some more moxie
behind it with a 24mm RMS you would be more happy.
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18 years ago
This should be in the FAQ.
Hi George!
Hi George!
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18 years ago
I'd think you might be better off selectign an airfoil of your choice than
picking what came out of Penrose as a default. But it would be interesting
to see what they used, unless it's a "this looks good" SWAG.
Bob Kaplow NAR # 18L TRA # "Impeach the TRA BoD" >>> To reply, remove the TRABoD!
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18 years ago
I missed the begining of this thread, but I do have an unbuilt Sweet
Vee. I'd be able to take measurements, drawings, pictures and scans of
whatever you all might like. Also have an unbuilt Strato-Blaster. Both
are winter projects.
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18 years ago
Noted!
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18 years ago
I?d rather do that than try to repeat what I did with Ed?s model since it was
tedious and very high-risk that I was able to cut the joiner hole aligned
properly thru the left and right wing roots of the model I made for Ed LaCroix
(I was pretty surprised it didn?t turn out to be a crooked disaster). But to
have that custom core cut, I need to know the airfoil (and hope to find the
coordinate data to send to them).
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18 years ago
If somebody were to trace the root airfoil of the Sweet Vee and scan the
trace, I would be glad to compare it to the library I have here and ID it
(probably).
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18 years ago
Do you take pictures of all this labor intensive stuff you do?
Do I need to mail you a digital camera?
Do I need to mail you a digital camera?
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18 years ago
Mike & George,
I made a quick & dirty trace of the foam root:
I made a quick & dirty trace of the foam root:
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18 years ago
Folks,
I have a hit.
It is a near perfect match for an Eppler 205 thinned to 8.5%, with 7" chord. The match is closer than the resolution of the traced template, so I think this is it. Thinning a well-proven sailplane airfoil for a different application is something a designer would do, so I don't doubt this is the thought process behind it, esp. as the E205 was in common use in the 80's into early 90's. The round numbers lend credence to the idea as well.
Therefore, if George or whoever wants, give me the chord measurements required and I can generate foam cutting templates as .dxf or other transferrable file format in just moments.
Mike Dennett CTI
I have a hit.
It is a near perfect match for an Eppler 205 thinned to 8.5%, with 7" chord. The match is closer than the resolution of the traced template, so I think this is it. Thinning a well-proven sailplane airfoil for a different application is something a designer would do, so I don't doubt this is the thought process behind it, esp. as the E205 was in common use in the 80's into early 90's. The round numbers lend credence to the idea as well.
Therefore, if George or whoever wants, give me the chord measurements required and I can generate foam cutting templates as .dxf or other transferrable file format in just moments.
Mike Dennett CTI
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18 years ago
rmr can be valuable.
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18 years ago
Mike:
I've posted new scans and dimensions:
I've posted new scans and dimensions:
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