Mark4
Originally uploaded by Mikebert4
Ahh, Mark4.
Good idea, bad implementation. Glided exactly as one would expect from a brick suffering vertigo. The wings suceeded in making the glider (pah!) wallow on it’s little-slowed descent.
Mark 4 during construction
Seriously though, the idea of including an insane-dihedral to secure stability, and then straight wings to produce the lift was a good one. I just over-did the dihedralto the point where the whole middle section is producing no lift at all, and a lot of drag. Plus the little straight wings had a habit of folding up and aiding the inevitable plumet earthwards.
On the plus side, it was incredibly stable.
I’m not even going to go into the technical side of this fellows failings.
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