May 23 (We're still here!!) Score update

2011 Tiny Gliders Postal
Current Scores		May 23, 2011
8" Catapult
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
1	Joshua Finn	Carbonette 8	67	68	70	68	70	343
2	Peter Brecker	Krazy Katze 8	52	65	61	71	65	314
8" Hand Launch
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
1	Joshua Finn	Carbonette 8	60	16	20	25	23	144
2	Peter Brecker	Krazy Katze 8	22	18	40	21	25	126
3	Steven Wrigley	Dogear 8	18	24	21	23	16	102
6" Catapult
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
2	Joshua Finn	Carbonette 6	59	67	58	65	66	315
1	Peter Brecker	Kitty Katze	38	45	59	40	55	237
3	Steven Wrigley	Kitty Katze	25	15	20	27	24	111
6" Hand Launch
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
2	Joshua Finn	Carbonette 6	27	22	24	28	13	114

1         Steven Wrigley       Dogchew                              25        18      26      25        45      139

The Latest Contenders

Matthew Taudevin's 8" Dogear; look at all that wing!:

Pete Brecker's amazing new Carbon Katze which is putting in impressive performances already:

Pete's build thread, complete with plans:

http://www.hippocketaeronautics.com/hpa_forum/index.php?topic=2514.90

Plans sources

Here are some good sources for plans:

Omar Grasseti's designs; Woodstock being specifically designed for small glider competition:

http://www.e-voo.com/plantas/vl

The 2003 Tiny Gliders Contest featured numerous interesting designs, mainly by Kevin Moseley:

http://www.windandwavemodels.com/Postal2003.html

Results and designs from the 2006 Tiny Gliders Postal:

http://www.windandwavemodels.com/Postal2006.html

 

Results and designs from the 2009 Tiny Gliders Postal:
http://tinygliders.blogspot.com/search/label/Design

Traditional HLG design, trimming, and flying strategy:

http://f4bscale.worldonline.co.uk/hand.htm

Foam glider design and construction:

http://www.freeflight.org/jlf/beginners_corner/foam_hlg/foam_hlg.htm

John Laudenslager's Stinger II CLG build sequence:

http://www.hippocketaeronautics.com/hpa_forum/index.php/topic,1549.0.html

 

Hip Pocket discussion of CLG design with several nice plans and DT methods:

http://www.hippocketaeronautics.com/hpa_forum/index.php?topic=2858.25

 

Japanese HLG/CLG blog:

http://kurobe-hlg.blog.so-net.ne.jp/archive/201008-1

 

Harjinder Obhi's great collection of Tiny Gliders plans:

http://chuckglider.blogspot.com/search/label/plans

 

Please post other plans/links if you have them!

Tuesday Score Update

2011 Tiny Gliders Postal
Current Scores May 11, 2011
8" Catapult
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
1	Joshua Finn	Carbonette 8	63	90	67	46	52	318
2	Peter Brecker	Krazy Katze 8	55	62	49	77	50	293
8" Hand Launch
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
1	Joshua Finn	Carbonette 8	60	16	20	25	23	144
2	Peter Brecker	Let it Roll	22	18	40	21	25	126
3	Steven Wrigley	Dogear 8	18	24	21	23	16	102
6" Catapult
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
1	Peter Brecker	Kitty Katze	38	45	59	40	55	237
2	Joshua Finn	Carbonette 6	43	37	67	49	38	234
3	Steven Wrigley	Kitty Katze	25	15	20	27	24	111
6" Hand Launch
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
1	Joshua Finn	Carbonette 6	27	22	24	28	13	114

Monday score update

2011 Tiny Gliders Postal
Current Scores		May 9, 2011
8" Catapult
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
1	Peter Brecker	Krazy Katze 8	55	62	49	77	50	293
2	Joshua Finn	Carbonette 8	32	36	48	62	34	212
8" Hand Launch
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
1	Joshua Finn	Carbonette 8	60	16	20	25	23	144
2	Steven Wrigley	Dogear 8	18	24	21	23	16	102
6" Catapult
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total
2	Steven Wrigley	Kitty Katze	25	15	20	27	24	111
6" Hand Launch
Place	Contestant	Model	Flt 1	Flt 2	Flt 3	Flt 4	Flt 5	Total