Stingray Build

[greenman407]

Guess who this is and what show did she appear in?........DUH!

[redboat219]

Anti-torpedo net?

[Kim Sleep]

Piloting your sub


Ok, Ok....so this is one of the women from "UFO", another Jerry Anderson production. God I miss the 70's and 80's

[Kim Sleep]

Oh Man

You churn out these 1-offs with the speed of an Asian factory!...absolutely beautiful build. I fear that once the Stingray is done, there may be a HUGE demand for mass production. Seems like all guys of my generation watched that TV show and have secretly wanted one of their own. The Bad Guys sub...shaped like a Piranah (actually called the "Terror Fish).. was SUPER COOL.


Here is a pic of Gerry Anderson holding one of the ORIGINAL models

OK, Mamas, we've had our fun ... time to stop hi-jacking your thread.

I have a file of STINGRAY dope. If you think it would be useful to you, I would be delighted to copy it and mail it off to you. If so, I'll need your mailing address, contact me at, dmeriman@aol.com if interested.

David

[RCnut]

Hello all, Back on this and just the painting to do, After that I will reassemble it all and do a bath test. Main aim is to get it on display for Andercon so full steam ahead.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Lol, You guys crack me up!! Well hopefully it wont be needed, Bath test first then onward and downward :)

Sorry about the hijacking of your thread.

Can't wait to see how your STINGRAY works in the water. What great work you do, sir!

M

[RCnut]

Lol, You guys crack me up!! Well hopefully it wont be needed, Bath test first then onward and downward :)

[HardRock]

It was written by Tim Lehrer, who also wrote "poisoning pidgins in the park" and a whole lot of other wonderful, mischievous, songs. He stopped writing and performing after Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because he claimed that awarding the prize to Kissinger made political satire obsolete! Funny guy. Ahh… memories.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Ahh…Werner. "We just send them up, who knows where they come down. Its not my department", says Werner Von Braun!

Oh, man! ... you brought some childhood memories to the fore I had long forgotten. What was that guys name -- his 'party' records were a scream. The guy was some sort of Sheldon Cooper type in real life, right?

My Dad introduced me to von Braun when I was a ten-year-old. Never forgot that. He had just finished his work with Disney and was making the technical trade-show tour at the time -- he was still working out of Huntsville I believe.

David

[HardRock]

Ahh…Werner. "We just send them up, who knows where they come down. Its not my department", says Werner Von Braun!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Keep it simple.

Just put a pair of horizontal von Braun type 'jet-vators' (think: V-2) aft of the yawing pump-jet nozzle. Still hidden within the RateMaster. Hell make them out of clear Acrylic and they will hardly be noticeable. No matter which way the nozzle yaws, the jet will impinge on enough jet-vator to produce the desired pitching moment.

You got the servo and seal in there already, Mamas. Why not use 'em?

Put an angle keeper on that pitch servo and you're in business.

David

[RCnut]

Hmmm Andy asked me that, The RA Stingray I converted a few years ago to RC worked well and I had used the side fins to control pitch, It was very fast and twitchy in the water but I'm doing the same with this one, We shall see. If it dont work then I will try and sort out a pitch function on the nozzle. Was thinking about actually making the back fins into functioning ones. I dont like the idea of visible control links though.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

That is SLICK! How are you going to manage pitch control?

M

[RCnut]

Its been a while but now doing some work on this, After David kindly sent me the WTCs, I have done my best to get one installed and working. I have incorporated the ratemaster rotation inside the main cylinder and replaced the Brushed motor with a Brushless one, I'm only using 3 servos as there is no up and down on the nozzle only left or right. There is way too much slop on the dive planes so they will need to be beefed up and the ratemaster spin mandrell will need tweaking some to get it right. Apart from that Im happy, :)

Vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKTjHokYRWI&feature=youtu.be

[RCnut]

Both together on the "set"