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International Hand Launch Glider Festival |
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| Shipping Boxes Shipping an airplane is becoming more important as we travel on company trips and vacations and want to take alone our favorite plane to a local thermal or slope site. A article on building Coroplast boxes can be found in the May 2001 issue of Sailplane and Electric Modeler, pp. 17-18. |
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This is the coroplast ravel case used by Jonathan Bryan of Seattle. Jonathan used foam rubber blocks to hold his wings in place. Light and simple. |
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When traveling long distances with many planes you need a big box. The box which Phil Barnes used to bring his fleet of Logics is shown here. |
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This rigid aluminum cases housed the planes of John Padilla. The case is large enough to transport larger F3B type planes. The case is from Tom Copp. |
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This is a fully molded glider case used by Mark Howard, from Skip Miller. The handle makes carrying easy. |
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This is the case which brought the Taboo, made and sold by Oleg Golovidov. this exceptional case follow the construction described in the S & E Modeler. Extra layers of coroplast are used around the seams. Oleg separated his wings using dowels. If you look closely you will see that the spaced pegs are set into a 1" x 2" piece of pine. This was a unique idea. A hole is drilled part way into the wood. After adding the wings between the pegs, another wood piece joined the other ends of the pegs. By doing this, the dowels act like a spar shear web and prevent the center of the box from being crushed. Crushing is typical of Airlines as they stack luggage atop the boxes. Writing fragile does not matter, so you have to be creative, light and strong. Oleg's version met all the criteria. |
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When traveling by car, boxes do not have to be as rugged. Here the wings of Phil and Jim Pearson are wrapped in paper. Phil and Jim also brought the planes down from Seattle for many other flyers, thus eliminating the worry of damage by the airlines. |
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This is the large aluminum box of Craig Greening. |
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Transporting and storing more than one plane is easy with the set up of Gordon Jennings and John Asplund. Here their modified Encores are left assembled for transport. This is nice if you have a large car, truck, or van. |
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Bill Watson traveled with over 6 assembled Hand launch gliders. Each glider was set up differently, had different airfoils and controls which permitted Bill to choose the best airplane for the conditions. All planes weighed within a few grams of each other. Bill also was able to charge all planes easily when they were stored. |
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