{"id":5983,"date":"2023-06-14T17:32:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T22:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=5983"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:27:23","slug":"hopper","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?product=hopper","title":{"rendered":"Hopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great biplane by Fred Reese.\u00a0 The kit comes with the parts needed to fly the plane from wheels or floats.\u00a0 It also comes with a platform that you glue into place at the top of the struts to make a table for attaching the top wing with bolts.\u00a0 If you choose to use this part and attach your wing this way, you&#8217;ll want to build up some balsa on top of it to make room for the dihedral of the wing.<\/p>\n<p>You also get two sets of dihedral braces.\u00a0 One has 6 degrees per side as indicated on the plan, and the other has 2.5 degrees per side for use with ailerons.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose to build the plane with ailerons, trim the ends of the ribs to make room for a trailing edge stick.\u00a0 Make your ailerons from the 1&#8243; tapered trailing edge stock shown on the plan.\u00a0 If you like ailerons you can put them on the top, bottom, both, or neither.\u00a0 That&#8217;s up to you, because I&#8217;m sending standard ribs as shown on the plan, and you trim them if you want to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great biplane by Fred Reese.\u00a0 The kit comes with the parts needed to fly the plane from wheels or floats.\u00a0 It also comes with a platform that you glue into place at the top of the struts to &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/?product=hopper\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5984,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[34],"product_tag":[58,63,84,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/5983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=5983"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.balsaworkbench.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=5983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}