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The mighty Comet
prior to its maiden flight.
Anders Lindström writes from Sweden to
describe his latest O/D PSS model, the impressive Comet
racer.
The
De Havilland DH-88 Comet must be one of the most beautiful
aircraft ever built. It flew in the
MacRobertson Race in 1934 from Great Britain to Australia.
The sleek elliptical wing and nice
fuselage shape makes it a very beautiful plane.
I started my build in late 2008
with the goal to fly it on a Swedish slope meeting in August
2009. I managed to finish it during the meeting and flew it
successfully.
The model has a wingspan of 3
meters and is built from foam which has been hot wire cut
and covered with brown packaging paper. I don't have the
AUW but it's really light and I had to put a large rock into
the fuselage on the second flight when wind conditions was
over 10 m/s and the extra weight was really necessary.
The plane is controlled by two
aileron servos and two elevator servos on a simple Y-lead.
Spoilerons have been mixed in for landings to make it lose
altitude.
Wing section is MH-32 which seems
to work fine.
During the second flight
unfortunately the Comet was involved in a mid-air collision
and crashed. When it flew so well it will be repaired and
more scale details will be added and also nicer graphics.
Here are some of my favourite
pictures from the maiden flight.
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