{"id":2569,"date":"2022-12-13T14:57:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T13:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2024-01-30T17:15:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:15:18","slug":"new-projects-for-winter-2022-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/2022\/12\/13\/new-projects-for-winter-2022-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"New Projects for Winter 2022-2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some preparatory work for new projects over the last few months already &#8211; in between other tasks &#8211; but I now finally have time to start getting into building mode. An I have a luxury problem: too many exciting project opportunities! Work has started on the following new scratch builds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A scale 1:4 Ventus 2C (4.5m)<\/strong>: A few years ago I went to pick up a DG1000 fuselage that I purchased from a retiring pilot. In his workshop there was this really pretty fuselage, which he agreed to sell to me for a few Francs. When I showed the fuselage to colleagues on the club they got all excited: it&#8217;s a fuselage that was built by a colleague in our club almost 20 years ago, from moulds and plans that are still around. In fact there are also still a few built planes around. This summer my mate Georg did a full revision on his and stripped out the landing gear, with the result that he got a really wonderful and surprisingly performant 4.5m glider weighing less than 5kg. The plane fills a &#8220;gap&#8221; in my collection of gliders, in the sense that it&#8217;s easy to hand-start on days with little wind. I&#8217;ve decided to give this build priority for this winter. I&#8217;ve built the wing joiner, have the rudder and elevator parts ready to build. Together with Georg we also cut the foam for the wings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A scale 1:3.5 Diana 4 (5.14m)<\/strong>: this one will be 2nd in my priority list, and I&#8217;ll be building part of it alongside the Ventus. More on that in a next post.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A scale 1:3 Diana 2 (5m)<\/strong>: The 5m Diana2 was the first Diana2 model built in our club and as far as I&#8217;m aware anywhere. It was a huge success within our club, but was quickly overshadowed by the smaller 4.28m, of which the Chocofly version has become famous as one of the best slope gliders around. I&#8217;ve been wanting to build the 5m version for ever. We still need to build a fuselage for myself and for Andi. I&#8217;ve yet to decide if I will fit it with my Baudis 5m Diana2 wings, or whether I&#8217;ll build my own set of wings. I built a wing joiner last week, but the rest of the plane will be for next winter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A scale 1:3.5 Monnett Monerai (3.43m)<\/strong>: My mate Richi has been planning to do a model of this US 12m kit glider for a while. It&#8217;s something very special. It&#8217;s also an easy build. Richi has done the plug for the fuselage pod (it&#8217;s a pod and boom glider) and is having the boom produced by colleagues in a professional glider manufacturer. I&#8217;ve produced the wing joiners for Richi and myself. I&#8217;ll work on this one on and off, depending on how other projects progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There may be one or two further surprises that I&#8217;ll report on as they appear :-)(I&#8217;m expecting something from the Ukraine, but the delivery of that is uncertain for understandable reasons) .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing some preparatory work for new projects over the last few months already &#8211; in between other tasks &#8211; but I now finally have time to start getting into building mode. An I have a luxury problem: too many exciting project opportunities! Work has started on the following new scratch builds: A scale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,18,20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diana-1-2","category-diana4","category-monnett-monerai","category-ventus-2c"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9zI6K-Fr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lefevere.eu\/modellflug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}