Back when transmitters had names such as ‘World’, ‘Kraft’ and ‘Logitech’, Western Plans Service published pages of plans, mostly flying wings for 50 cents.  How cool.  What a goldmine extremely underrated.  On research with folks like Bill Kuhlman, I learned that many of these models flew well, though the airfoils of the day were somewhat primitive.

Fast forward to today, where many individuals and whole teams are dedicated, often exclusively to both flying wing and flying wing section development and analysis.  The results have greatly advanced the state of the art, so much so that some of these classic designs are worth reconsidering, at least in my mind they are.

I’ve been attracted to the R-2 since I’ve seen it.  It sparked interest in lite/ultra lite low/very low aspect ratio which persists still.

A TenShock powered self launcher made from virgin white popcorn foam inlayed into 2 pound open cell foam, Presented is an R-2 update at 4 meters in span, with a chord length of 20 inches.  One option could be to equip it with a vestigial stabilizer as seen in Genesis II.

I contacted Peter Wick for section assistance, as solving flying wing airfoils is out of my league.  Accessible and most generous, Peter’s work is at this point in the state of the flying wing model art defacto.  I have worked his data with the Windfire series by Gary Smith to success most, most satisfactory.  He responded saying a fellow in Denmark had the same idea on the same R2 airframe, but he does not know the status of the project.  He updated the schedule for this projects use and sent them.  More will come on this.  The gallery strip features flying wing projects I’ve been noodling with, and flying wing artwork that has my interest.