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Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 14/12/2025 16:55 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Hi Sebastian,
Thanks and yes it is nice software, it took me some time to work with it
Cheers,
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 14/12/2025 12:27 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Bonjour a tous,
I went on with the fuselage
I drew the fuselage (some time ago already) using Devfus. I have already drawn a few fuselages with this programme, but this one was a bit different b ... |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 03/12/2025 23:04 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Merci Sebastian pour ton comments.
Et oui, j' aime la forme des empanages aussi!
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 03/12/2025 14:13 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Bonjour a tous,
As I planned, I started with the stabilizer and the vertical stabilizer at the same time.
There aren't many drawings of the Hjordis; Buxton left many details that had to be wo ... |
Sujet: Slingsby King Kite 1/4 |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 19/11/2025 19:44 Sujet: Slingsby King Kite 1/4 |
Bonjour a tous,,
Thomas a trouve dans tes archives de le Wasserkuppe Segelflugmuseum des nouveau photo's de la Slingsby King Kite;
http://www.retroplane.net/forum/images/uploads/bocorvin/KK1__Aa ... |
Sujet: ANNIVERSAIRES - GEBURTSTAGE |
bocorvin
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Forum: Divers... Posté le: 15/11/2025 16:09 Sujet: ANNIVERSAIRES - GEBURTSTAGE |
A bit late Vincent, sorry,
Happy birthdag
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 05/11/2025 20:21 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Vincent et Sebastian,
Merci pour votre reaction aimable (nice words)
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 05/11/2025 15:04 Sujet: Slingby Hjordis, scale 1:5 with e-drive |
Hello everyone,
Why a new glider? I enjoy building, but also because I had some tense moments with slope flying, trying not to land down the slope. Changes to our field had also made towing more di ... |
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Forum: Divers... Posté le: 01/11/2025 12:17 Sujet: ANNIVERSAIRES - GEBURTSTAGE |
Hello Sebastian,
Happy birthday and lots of creative builds!
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 20/10/2025 18:11 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Danke Johannes
Der tekst war auf English, Ich war nicht der Flieger, nur ein kurze Zeit. Um klar zu sein habe Ich das ubersetzt mit hilfe von translate;
Gestern machte die Austria ihren maid ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 20/10/2025 15:27 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Hi Sebastian,
You saw that well, yes I was very happy; it flew well, everything functioned, the CG was OK and the footage was OK!
And there is room in my workshop
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 20/10/2025 10:49 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Hello everyone,
Yesterday the Austria made its maiden, flown by Raymond, who did the first 70% of the build. He wrote the following on the Dutch forum:
Translated with help of Deeptranslate L
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Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 14/10/2025 19:07 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Danke Thomas
LG
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 14/10/2025 10:10 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Hi Sebastian,
Yes, it is quite a lot of lead, almost all my lead supply went into the Ku-4!!
Because the rudders are hard to actuate with rods or wires without to much hysteresis, Raymond put 3 ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 13/10/2025 14:38 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
I looked for the necessary lead I needed 850 gr, 90 grams of which I put separately in a plastic jar, so that I could take it out if necessary. I fixed the rest with epoxy with filler.
http://www. ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 04/10/2025 21:37 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Hello Sebastian,
Thanks for your nice comments .
The balsa is covered with 25gr/m2 glas fabric & epoxy. Rhat gave a irrigular surface . I used a filler (enduit) acrylic Rapide fro ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 04/10/2025 19:01 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
| After sheeting the rudders with Diacov, I wanted to organise the nose of the fuselage with the battery and ballast. The battery didn't quite fit behind the nose block, so I placed it one frame backwar ... |
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Forum: Divers... Posté le: 19/09/2025 15:51 Sujet: ANNIVERSAIRES - GEBURTSTAGE |
Hallo Ulli,
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu deinem Geburtstag (je verjaardag ) von mir und auch von Jenny,
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
bocorvin
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Forum: Constructions Métalliques - Stahlrohrkonstruktion Posté le: 17/09/2025 12:17 Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
Bonjour Sebastian,
Thanks for your comment
It is a bit confusing, the video is a combined one with all the footage I had. So the first flight is again in this video. I already made a new co ... |
Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
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Forum: Constructions Métalliques - Stahlrohrkonstruktion Posté le: 16/09/2025 10:16 Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
It took a while, but more flight(s) have been made.
To refresh what happened, the very first tow went up well, unfortunately the (scale) coupling did not disconnect properly resulting in a hard lan ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 05/09/2025 11:09 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
| Wih the fins and rudders I had to make a choice. In the FMT drawings, the fins and rudders are flat plates constructed from balsa wood. On the 1:2 model and the original, they are fabric-covered struc ... |
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Forum: Divers... Posté le: 02/09/2025 09:14 Sujet: ANNIVERSAIRES - GEBURTSTAGE |
Hallo Olli,
Danke fur die Gluckwunche Olli
Gruss,
Vincent (DB) |
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Forum: Divers... Posté le: 01/09/2025 14:56 Sujet: ANNIVERSAIRES - GEBURTSTAGE |
Merci Vincent
Danke Thomas
Thanks Pat
Danke Johannes und Rita
Now I surely have to finish the Ku-4 and then fly it
Amicalement, LG, cheers,
Vincent (DB) |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 25/08/2025 12:51 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
| I continued to sheet all the surfaces. I thought if I coated it with glass cloth and epoxy the surface becomes much firmer and it also adds strength. I wanted to keep it light. I ordered 25grams glass ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 12/08/2025 20:20 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Hello Sebastian,
Merci pour ton interet.
Oui cette une planeur exceptionelle, 30 metres envergure!!
Cette modele est construit par les plan de FMT
L''histoire complet est aux MBF Neerlandaise:
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Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 11/08/2025 14:01 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Now that the fuselage was coming along nicely, I decided to start working on the wings.
First of all, I would like to compliment Raymond on how he built the wings and took care of the wiring.
To il ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 01/08/2025 15:21 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
I continued with the nose of the fuselage, glued 0.6 mm plywood on both sides of the skate and the lower planks of the fuselage.
Once the fuselage has been glassed (with 25 gram cloth) the skate it ... |
Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
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Forum: Constructions Détaillées en Photo Posté le: 19/07/2025 12:19 Sujet: Kupper Ku4 Austria "Elefant" scale 1:6 |
Building Kupper Ku 4 (Elefant) scale 1:6, built from the FMT plans
Fotor had previously owned an Elefant, see this link
www.retroplane.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=68869
but is broke its wing ... |
Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
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Forum: Constructions Métalliques - Stahlrohrkonstruktion Posté le: 14/05/2025 12:59 Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
Danke Johannes, und die SGU ist, wie sagt mann das, ziemlich stark
Sebastian, I had some unreliabilty problems with my hook of the Nemere 330cm span, it was a miniature of the original one. So ... |
Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
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Forum: Constructions Métalliques - Stahlrohrkonstruktion Posté le: 13/05/2025 10:49 Sujet: Schweizer SGU 1-19 avec fuselage en tube |
Bonjour a tous,
The SGU 1-19 had made its first flight. The prototypical tow hook didn't work as it should, but it flew well, that was nice.
The landing was not nice, I didn't wont to fly ... |
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