Hello Everyone,
My name is Martin, and I am based in Auckland , New Zealand.
Originally from South Africa in Cape Town, and living in NZ for the last 14 years - I've Escaped !
I have been building paper models since the age of 4. My late father had a copy of 'Aircraft Aircraft' by Paul Hamlyn, which had beautiful large photos of the Wright Flyer and Glider No.4 . My first paper model was of this glider, constructed from paper, complete with all struts and structure, and held together with Pritt glue - and it held together quite well.
Since then I have been building and constructing models. A watershed was a lovely tiny F-16 I built when 12, which was in the colours of the prototype, of white and blue camo, taken from one of my Father's Air International magazines. To replicate the shiny canopy, I used tinfoil - and then the watershed occurred - it could fly !
Since then there has been no looking back.
Also in the 1990's, Prof E.H. Mathews released the Paper Pilot gliders, of incredible performance, designed in AutoCAD and wind tunnel tested. I still have my copies of all his books, and have been re-authoring the designs as A4 PDFs, and am half way through so far. Its safe to say that I am the last Paper Pilot in the world....the gliders are of flat-panel construction, with Gottingen curved plate Aerofoils, and wings of AR 6-8, TP 4-6, and VT area set by Volumetric Tail Coefficient formulae - which I have since mastered.
I will be publishing a new book on Amazon Kindle a bit later this year, I spend the Christmas break designing them.
My 3D models have evolved, always with an eye to both scale appearance as well as flight performance.
Structural innovations include :
*All paper wings with folded corrugated spars, to produce Northrop-Spar wings of great strength and lightness, rivalling balsa structures, and tougher too.
*Functional wheels, light and which spin easily, of cardboard wheel structures separated by a paper coil, held by glue.
*Multi-blade propellers, of great lightness and strength. I tend to give them negative camber, so that they spin easily in airflow, and this reduces drag in-flight.
*Lightweight tough spinners of multiple conic section, construction simple, but able to survive multiple landings.
*Functional VG Wings, able to unsweep inflight
*Lightweight Biplane spar & strut design, to permit flying model biplanes.
*Very small Cierva rotor heads, to permit the construction of glidable autogyros.
I look forward to taking part in this community, and sharing your experience.
My name is Martin, and I am based in Auckland , New Zealand.
Originally from South Africa in Cape Town, and living in NZ for the last 14 years - I've Escaped !
I have been building paper models since the age of 4. My late father had a copy of 'Aircraft Aircraft' by Paul Hamlyn, which had beautiful large photos of the Wright Flyer and Glider No.4 . My first paper model was of this glider, constructed from paper, complete with all struts and structure, and held together with Pritt glue - and it held together quite well.
Since then I have been building and constructing models. A watershed was a lovely tiny F-16 I built when 12, which was in the colours of the prototype, of white and blue camo, taken from one of my Father's Air International magazines. To replicate the shiny canopy, I used tinfoil - and then the watershed occurred - it could fly !
Since then there has been no looking back.
Also in the 1990's, Prof E.H. Mathews released the Paper Pilot gliders, of incredible performance, designed in AutoCAD and wind tunnel tested. I still have my copies of all his books, and have been re-authoring the designs as A4 PDFs, and am half way through so far. Its safe to say that I am the last Paper Pilot in the world....the gliders are of flat-panel construction, with Gottingen curved plate Aerofoils, and wings of AR 6-8, TP 4-6, and VT area set by Volumetric Tail Coefficient formulae - which I have since mastered.
I will be publishing a new book on Amazon Kindle a bit later this year, I spend the Christmas break designing them.
My 3D models have evolved, always with an eye to both scale appearance as well as flight performance.
Structural innovations include :
*All paper wings with folded corrugated spars, to produce Northrop-Spar wings of great strength and lightness, rivalling balsa structures, and tougher too.
*Functional wheels, light and which spin easily, of cardboard wheel structures separated by a paper coil, held by glue.
*Multi-blade propellers, of great lightness and strength. I tend to give them negative camber, so that they spin easily in airflow, and this reduces drag in-flight.
*Lightweight tough spinners of multiple conic section, construction simple, but able to survive multiple landings.
*Functional VG Wings, able to unsweep inflight
*Lightweight Biplane spar & strut design, to permit flying model biplanes.
*Very small Cierva rotor heads, to permit the construction of glidable autogyros.
I look forward to taking part in this community, and sharing your experience.
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