Hanky Planky – Gary Spicer Invents a New Challenge

Gary has developed a new, so far pointless, but otherwise rewarding, challenge. How may parts can you glue/tape/hope back together to recreate the mighty beast?

Click on the image above for a parts count. By yesterday, with some medical tape subbing for masking tape(!), it was again flying beautifully. Mostly.

Despite it blowing a hoolie through Knettishall, I made the mistake of joining in. Rubbish though. In a bid for freedom, only the tail end made a clean break for it. Gratifyingly a cm or so from a previous repair.

On the positive side, I established that you can fly a Hanky Planky backwards in enough wind. As a further lesson, that benign nod instead of a stall from a KFm-2 wing section is not your friend 2 feet off the ground…at least, in a wind. I tried a vertical landing, and made it within to 2 feet. But no prize in Gary’s challenge for just 2 parts.