Wood aeromodelling (PoD)

Materials – Building techniques – Construction methods

It is fascinating when it smells of wood and glue and a new flying model gradually emerges on the building board. In the process, you learn a lot about wood as a building material, about building techniques and, incidentally, about construction methods.

So that the whole thing doesn't get bogged down in theory, the material and construction techniques are used in this book on a real flying model, to which the author has given the name "WOODY", which means "the wooden one". Without a lot of mathematics and formulas, Franz Kayser explains the various construction principles applied, based on his experience with wood as a building material.

• Small wood encyclopaedia

• Weight and strength

• Material strength and breaking moment

• Quarter and other grains

• Effects of grain direction

• EWD – the setting angle difference

• Centre of gravity position and stall

• Auxiliary construction of the slipway

• Planking and edge curves

• Wing stitching

• Servo installation in the wing

• The right tailplane

• Building a tailplane

• A suitable fuselage

• The cowl

• Hinges for the WOODY

• Landing gear construction

• Self-built canopy

• Building and flying

• Extensive appendix