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The Falcon The Falcon is a fully moulded F3F/F3B glider designed and built in the UK by Alex McMeekin. It is the culmination of several years’ research and development, and upon completion has shown great promise in both national and international F3F competition, including the Viking race, the Welsh Open and the Norwegian Open. Alex McMeekin has been flying RC Gliders for nearly 26 years, and has flown RC power, electric, thermal, slope, multitask, cross-country, pylon, EPP pylon, indoor free-flight and radio, and wrote a regular slope column for QFI magazine when Dave Jones was Editor. Flying The Falcon has impeccable manners! Simply, it’s a very easy model to fly. But this doesn’t mean that it lacks performance. The prototypes have been flown in competition against some of the world’s best pilots and shown themselves to be thoroughly competitive. Sport flying is just as important as competition flying though and the Falcon doesn’t disappoint here either, being very aerobatic with it’s large ailerons, and a good thermal model when the flaps are used. Crow-braking is excellent, the bottom hinged flaps will allow for almost 90 degrees of movement if your radio installation and programming are up to scratch, allowing a fine degree of control for landing in tight spaces.
The Falcon’s wing planform is a result of much thought and consideration. Daryl Perkins, many times F3B world champion, said “I’d rather fly a model with a decent planform and a cruddy wing section, than a model with a decent wing section and a cruddy planform!”, The Falcon’s planform has an excellent compromise of aspect ratio, minimal sweep and a tip volume that will actually do some work without adding to the drag. The wing section is a modification of a Quabeck section. It’s great benefit is that flap control and movement really works! The V-tail halves are plug-on, using carbon rod joiners, giving the best portability. The three piece wing breaks down into three equal sized panels at just under a metre each and combined with the plug-on V-tails allows the model to be broken down to a very small volume for storage and transport. The fuselage contains a ballast tube that will carry 1.1 kg of ballast, ample for most conditions. The radio bay is generous by modern standards, without producing an overly large fuselage volume. Full sized receivers and mini servos are easily fitted, and an experienced installer will find that standard sized servos can be fitted with a little planning. Specifications
The model is all-moulded. The fuselage is laid-up in glass with carbon reinforcement in the tailboom. So far receiver aerial leads have been run inside the boom with no noted ill effect. Tailplanes and wings are based on a balsa sandwich construction, with several lay-ups available: Basic Glass, with glass on both sides of the balsa. Carbon D-box, with a layer of 163gram carbon biased at 45 degrees on the inside skin forward of the spar. Carbon, with glass and 93 gram carbon on the outer skin and glass on the inner skin. Beyond those basic lay-ups, others can be discussed and priced. The ballast tube is fitted, and a block is in place to accept a screw in tow-hook. An adjustable tow-hook can be fitted at extra cost. V-tail torque rods are pre-fitted.
All basic colours can be accommodated with two colours as standard, allowing for a masked or faded area on the tip panels. Third colours or more complex schemes can be priced. Please contact us for further information regarding your requirements. Pricing Currently only available to Very Special Order
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