IIRC, Larry Renger’s “Sky Slash-II” B/G was a plain in Estes MRN?

I am looking for the plans, but do not have any idea which issue it might be in. Is there some index for contents of MRN’s?

Or, if I am not recalling correctly, where might plans for the original SkySlash-II be found, if at all?

I know, Estes kitted a version of it as the Falcon But I want to see what the original was like since it was tweaked somewhat (The Falcon tip chord looks awfully skinny, so it makes me wonder if the planform was changed to get the most out of a 3 x 10” sheet of balsa).

- George Gassaway

Here ya go:

http://www.dars.org/jimz/eirp_12.htm

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OK, thanks a lot.

EDIT - I have not worked out the exact sizing yet to convert the TIFF image to the correct scale for 1:1 on screen. But just by looking, it is as I had wondered. The original Sky Slash-II wings had a lot more chord at the tip than the Falcon did. And each wing used up one sheet of Estes' BFS-40. On the Falcon, with skinnier wings toward the tips, both fit onto one sheet of BFS-40.

- George Gassaway

George,

JimZ plans can be tricky -- by that I mean the older plans stored as TIFs. On a Windows machine, you can do "Save Image", but that saves the GIF, which is going to give you a "thumbnail-sized image, and no scaling. Do a "Save Link", and that stores the page as a TIF. My default is to open TIFs in Microsoft Document Imaging (which I think is the Windows default for TIFs). It opens at 100%, full sized, ready to print. Irfanview, Photoshop, or other graphics programs will give you controls to play with the image, but the Windows freebie utility will get you a full-sized print just fine.

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I do Macs, not Windows. I could have tweaked it in Photoshop. But, since there are dimensions shown, I did a copy of the image and pasted it into some drawing software (MacDraw), and resized it until the 5” wingspan matched a 5” square. Of course the wing and stab are dimensioned fully so I did not need to do that for those but did need to do it for the fuselage and rudder. Actually if I were to build a mode, I would be drawing up templates in MacDraw, so that is why I needed to get the TIFF into something that could be manipulated to he correct size. If not for the dimensions to help me, I might have had to go as far as to use Photoshop to print it at the right size on paper, then measure the printouts to draw from.

I am not sure where this will lead me. Maybe a model, maybe not. I wanted to see how things might work out, and in this case whether the Sky Slash-II or Falcon. Definitely the Falcon’s wings are skinnier towards the tips, so one sheet of BFS-40 could be used in the kit. So if I do something, it might be the Sky Slash. Or, maybe the “Falcon Slash”, or “Sky Falcon”, if I wanted to use the original wings of the Sky Slash but maybe use that “T” fuselage of the Falcon.

Or, maybe it will end up as yet another project I considered but ended up doing something else.

- George Gassaway

Do you have Illustrator, George? I find that, most of the time, Illustrator will open TIFF files at 1:1 scale. And, you can resize them very easily as well.

Greg

AFAIK, all of the TIFs at JimZ's site are scanned at 300 dpi. So if you adjust the downloaded image's resoluton to that number, it should print out at the correct size. On your Mac, you can also convert the image to a PDF file practically by thought-control alone. (We Windoze users have to obtain an add-on to make such conversions -- and we still have to use a mouse. )

MarkII

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Has anybody looked at Semroc's Hawk? IIRC it is a slightly modified Sky Slash. Might be a good starting point.

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I think Sky Slash II plans were in the old design booklets as well. That's probably where I first saw them.

But what ever happened to the ORIGINAL Sky Slash plans. The design Larry originally submitted, rather than what Estes turned them into before publication?

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Has anyone thought of contacting Larry Renger directly?

He's still on the Internet.

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