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Kline-Folgleman Resources Around the Web

December 21st, 2008 at 6:05 pm » Comments (0)

Besides having Super RC powers, Dave Powers of RCPOWERS.com has a great interview of Dick Kline. Dave has spent a lot of time trying the KF airfoil on different platforms, most of them originally unstable without the KF. Dave has come up with some interesting results and as always, Dave’s videos are entertaining and informative.
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Instructables features my How To Make a Holiday Window Display

December 24th, 2007 at 5:10 pm » Comments (1)

Merry Christmas to All! I just received an email that Instructables is featuring my How To Make a Holiday Window Display. Very cool. As an update – here is my 2007 Window display. We added buildings, lights and some mountains to give a little more interest to the scene. Enjoy.

Merry Christmas.





$5 Wing Designer

October 29th, 2007 at 5:07 am » Comments (1)

Last year I built a $5 Flying Wing and used a Kline-Fogelman Airfoil and plans from RC Groups. The wing was a lot of fun to fly and I always wanted to build another one. I wanted to build one out of EPP foam and try different designs but I never got around [...]





Instructable: How To Make a Holiday Window Display

December 8th, 2006 at 3:53 pm » Comments (0)

If you are not familiar with Instructables.com, then you are missing out on the next web 2.0 craze. Social DIYing: take a dash of blogging, add in some wikipedia, then some flickr, and the soul of Make Magazine, mix them up and you have Instructables
You can click here to read my first Instructable on [...]





CoroWing SPAD Flight Report

October 15th, 2006 at 9:27 pm » Comments (4)

The CoroWing SPAD actually can fly. I was a bit worried about the weight, and that is why I increased the step in the Kline-Fogelman airfoil and used 3/8″ spruce instead of 1/4″ spruce.
Initial flights to adjust center of gravity (CG) and trim were a bit rough due to the strong winds. On about the [...]