Fresca

[george kennie]

Thanks guys for the encouragement. I just took pix the other day and haven't
had them developed yet, but it looks a little like a Smaragd. It's pretty
swoopy looking and semi-widebody style with a 79 cent landing gear and my
$2.78 double mousse can pipe.Hey, it's tough to be poor, but it all seems to
work.
Georgie

Woodward James R Civ 412 TW/DRP/ACQ wrote:

> Sounds really nice George.  Did you happen to post any pictures?
> Congrats!
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: george kennie [mailto:geobet at gis.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:47 PM
> To: discussion at nsrca.org
> Subject: Fresca
>
> Wow,wow,wow,.........I just got back from the flying field after doing
> the maiden on my new Fresca.  When I got there it turned out to be
> windier than I had hoped that it would be. I almost packed up and came
> back home, but I decided to chance it as my trip to the field takes
> almost an hour and I didn't want all that time to go for naught. Well,
> at any rate, I gassed it up and taxiied out to runway center lined it up
> and took a deep breath......"Here goes" advancing gradually it became
> airborne in about 80 feet and proceed to fly out pretty straight, kinda
> by itself, as I was a little nervous and not focusing all that
> well.After all, this thing took me longer to build than anything else I
> have ever done so I was somewhat apprehensive. O.K., procedure turn and
> back for my free pass, oops got a little dive here, two or three clicks
> of up elevator, "Ah that's better, Hmmm, this thing doesn't need any
> aileron, boy, it feels like my Focus! O.K. let's try that stall turn
> with 1&1/4 up, Zooooom, Wow that roll rate is impressive, and still have
> beaucoup climb after completion of the roll. Oops, screwed up on the
> down line and rolled the opposite way, that's O.K, I'll just pull out
> inverted."
> Well anyway, you get the idea. I was somewhat aghast that with a 15 mph
> 30 degree cross wind blowing in, this thing would come out of a down
> line and transition to level flight and the wings would ABSOLUTELY LOCK
> straight and level like there was no cross at all! For me it kinda
> confirms all the stuff that I've been able to learn about force
> arangements over the last 5 or 6 years from guys like Bryan(helped me a
> lot).
> I proceeded on through the Masters pattern and was really impressed with
> the vertical performance. I threw in the figure 9 from the FAI  sequence
> just to see how well it would handle all the drag and it never even
> slowed down. You're probably saying, " they're not supposed to with a
> DZ". Well I want you to know that I am using a 120 FZ on 20/20 and this
> thing is awesome. Verticals are more authoritive than my Focus with a
> 150. The thing that really blew me away is the fact that I don't think
> this thing has unlimited vertical. I did one ascent that had me
> convinced that it was going to cease gaining altitude, but that point
> occurred at about 1200 feet, it was a spec!
> I took it up twice and then decided to pack it in 'til I get a little
> more stick time on this bird under more favorable conditions.
> Yeah, I know you're saying, "what's a Fresca?" It's a design I came up
> with around the first of last December and built it up over the winter.
> Oh yeah, I forgot to add that the mix is almost negligeable. It's got a
> very slight pull to the canopy on K/E to the right and straight as a die
> to the left. Just a hint of adverse couple to the right, but you have to
> wait quite a while before it starts to show.
>   It's a little smaller than 2 meters, but the nice thing is it came in
> at 8&1/2 pounds.It has a one piece wing that weighs, with servos
> installed, covered, and a substantial belly pan/pipe tunnel on the wing
> bottom, under 28 ounces.Matt K. has always told me about light wings and
> now I know what he's talking about.In spite of the roll rate being quite
> crisp the wing stops quickly and stabilizes.This is my first experience
> owning an aircraft with a power to weight ratio of this calibre and I
> also know that there are others out there with an even greater ratio
> which must be totally awesome.
>
>  For me it was all in all a pretty rewarding experience.
> Georgie
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