Hangar 9 ASW-20

[John W]

Hi Len;

I live in Grand Rapids Michigan and I'm the VP of my local club, West Michigan Soaring Society. Another fellow in the club has a Blanik and I hope to get more members interested in scale this coming season.

[lenb]

Hi John,
Welcome to Scale Soaring. Happy to have you aboard.
The ASW has proven to be a superb sailplane over the last couple years with lots of them showing up at aero-tow's all across the globe. You're sure to have a great experience with it.
Where are you located?

Len

[oldstuff]

Great to see you found the site , lots of great info here.

[John W]

Hi Guys;

Been shopping for my first scale glider and went with the ASW 20. It has pretty much all you would need in a first which is what I think Peter and the people at Horizon were going for. I'm setting it up like Stephane's, both E and tow. So I can tell mine from everybody else's, I changed the registration numbers and placed them on the wing bottom as well.

[JimD]

BTW, if you decide to stay with the stock position, the attachment mechanism can be improved a bit to make hooking up easier. Stephane has some good pictures of how to do this.

[JimD]

Hi Dave,

Locating the tow release in the center of the nose should work okay, but may make riding in the perfect tow position behind the tow plane a little less easy.

With the tow point in the stock position back under the chin, the ASW20 naturally will ride higher on tow than if the tow point is in the center of the nose.

Unlike full-scale where the tow plane tows from its tail and sailplane is directly behind the tow plane, R/C aerotowing, with the tow plane towing from its top, places the sailplane above and behind the towplane. So, if the sailplane naturally wants to ride up on tow, that can be a good thing.

That said, if the tow point on the sailplane is way back under the nose, the sailplane can want to ride overly high and actually require the use of down elevator on tow. The 2-33's require a lot of down elevator as the tow starts to avoid ballooning up into a stall as they launch.

[mogman]

I am awaiting delivery of my ASW20 and have a question for you.
I am not going electric, aerotow only and wonder if there is any reason I could not put a tow release (pin and cross bar)in the center of the nose as opposed to where it is now, down under the nose.

It might make it a little easier to hook up the tow line..these old bones don't bend quite like they used to.

Or should I just leave things the way they are?


Cheers,
Dave.

[Xroadie]

The Tailored Pilots 1/3.5 scale pilot looks great in the H9 ASW-20!

[lenb]

cool video.. It's always interesting to see the mountain from above. The colors are awesome.

Thanks for posting.

[Sinkhappens86]

Awesome video Stephane!

[French1]

And here is the video of the first flight of my ASW-20 with its winglets during the 50th Soar For Fun.
look like Jeremy and myself need a better communication on which side of the runaway we choose for landing...

[French1]

I worked on some winglets for the ASW-20, look like I am in winglet mania mode...

Not specialty for flying characteristics, but more for look... I am hoping for some flight improvements but as in full size we are talking of couple % gain in LD ... that will be hard to benchmark, but we will see

Same than for my Dg-500, balsa put in shape, this time (thanks to Steve) I put a real airfoil that generate lift and not a symmetrical airfoil

Sans titre by steffruelle, sur Flickr

we will see how it fly for the 50th soar for fun.

If it is a success I may build molds to make them hollow, and so by that mean lighter

To be continued

Stéphane

[Slappy]

Thanks Jeremy. Likewise.

[Swiss1]

Glad to have helped Bryan, as you get further in the project and need more components please let me know. It was good to see you at Joe Nall last week.

Jeremy and Ben
SCCAAA TT TN

[Slappy]

Will do Len. I'm going to build the motorized version with an aerotow release. It should be finished for the Horizon Aerotow.......2018.