{"id":4778,"date":"2021-11-15T01:16:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T07:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?page_id=4778"},"modified":"2022-01-16T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T21:25:31","slug":"stik-27-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?page_id=4778","title":{"rendered":"Stik 27 Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1431.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1431.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_1431\" width=\"1200\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1431.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1431-600x325.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1431-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1431-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1431-1024x554.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/DSC_1431-500x270.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Stik 27 is a plane that I designed in 1998. \u00a0The purpose of the design was to get high performance from a Cox reed valve engine by building\u00a0a plane slightly smaller than the 250 square inches that is considered &#8220;normal&#8221; for an 049 trainer or mild mannered sport plane.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Span: \u00a027.5 inches<\/li>\n<li>Chord: \u00a05.5 inches<\/li>\n<li>Area: \u00a0one square foot<\/li>\n<li>Weight: \u00a08 to 12 ounces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I flew it with 2 channels, a Cox Texaco engine, Cox gray 7 x 3.5 propeller, Omega 10% nitro fuel, and no landing gear. \u00a0Performance was quite satisfactory.<\/p>\n<p>Reed valve engines are appropriate, but Cox Tee Dee engines would be way too much. \u00a0I would expect most guys to choose electric power, of course. \u00a0I&#8217;m electric impaired, so I have no advice other than to suggest that you may want to add landing gear to keep the prop out of the grass, but that&#8217;s up to you. \u00a0You may also want to cut holes in the tail and the aft fuselage, or do whatever floats your boat.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the building instructions and the plan. \u00a0Just to keep the page sizes manageable I&#8217;ll divide this into three sections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Stik27.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?page_id=4756\" target=\"_blank\">Fuselage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?page_id=4784\" target=\"_blank\">Wings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?page_id=4823\" target=\"_blank\">Everything else<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stik 27 is a plane that I designed in 1998. \u00a0The purpose of the design was to get high performance from a Cox reed valve engine by building\u00a0a plane slightly smaller than the 250 square inches that is considered &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?page_id=4778\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":659,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4778\/revisions\/4934"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}