MThemadhatter

I had a look at the one they are rebuilding at Flying Legends a couple of years ago, would be nice to see it fly I have made some more progress The top of the fuse is now the right shape and I have made the over landing gear As you can see in the first pic I have started on the fillets, and then cheated a little and simplified them. I started off making them exactly scale and then realised this was a bit ambitious for my first set of wing fillets, and scratch built at that So i settled on these As you can see I straightened the forward sections out a to simplify things. The full size ones are very curvy. The next thing to do is to put the curves into the ribs and skin them. I am not entirely sure how to go about this so I have left it to another day The radio was switched on a the start of building so it took me 3-1/2 hours to get this far Now to some electrical strangeness. I tested the Thumper 5045- 720Kv motor with the same ESC, Lipos and props as I did with the Emax 4020 620Kv (roughly equivalent to a 5055 580Kv). And got nearly identical RPM and current results, So 2 motors with a 100Kv difference give identical results ?? Anyone got any ideas what is going on ?

Well I have ordered one of the thumper motors to try out hopefully it should be ok. The next two jobs are not ones I like but I need to get on with them. The first is to accuratly cut the tail plane seat so that the tail plane incidence is correct. Now there is no info on the plan to say what it should be In the build the article TN mentions that on the original one he built, the tail plane incidence was out and he adjusted it on the new plans. Now I am guessing here that the incidence should be 0 degrees ? After that I have the wing fillets to make. Question is build the fillets then glass the fuse or the other way round ?

Finished shaping off the nose today. Suddenly added a lot of character to the plane   I have also been looking at motors. A few pages ago I was testing the motors and I was not completely happy with results, in particular the pitch speed. So I have been looking at alternative motors and have found the following ones Turnidgy 5045 650Kv Turnidgy 5055 700Kv   Thumper 5045 720Kv   So the choice is effectively between My original motors that are 620Kv and 650, 700 and 720Kv. I am kind of leaning towards the tornado thumpers at 720Kv and as usual there is no real prop data for any of these Edited By MThemadhatter on 17/04/2012 13:00:37

Thanks for the compliments guys. There is not a lot of differnce landing this plane in wind with flaps and landing a Helicopter You can land it in a most unscale like manner, the flaps are really only for calm days. With wind and flaps it just floats along then lands almost at a stand still. As such if your looking for your first warbird or an easy unfussy one to fly I can highly recomend it. My "Camera Man" is indeed very good, this was practice filiming session as I have a new camera. Once Stinky is fully sussed and we have a good calm morning I will put together a display routine and film it, and add the appropriate music

Well there has been a bit of a pause in building the last 6 weeks or so Due to good weather, planes being fixed after being flown in good weather and overtime. Also this new toy   I also picked this up     But balsa bashing has now resumed. I have decided to get the fuse to the point of ready to be glassed as it is showing signs of a little hanger rash.   So I have fitted the wing to the fuse, reinforced the floor of the battery bay and finished sheeting the nose section     I have laminated up several layers of balsa and cut the nose cone from them     Now there is just a lot sanding again. I placed a piece of ply in the nose side profile shape to stop me taking to much off.     Starting to look like something that will fly   The next thing to tackle is the tail plain seat     At the moment the fin will attatch at the front and back with horziontal stab sitting on the fuse sides.     There is not a lot of support there so I have two ideas. One is to add some 1.5mm ply doublers that reach down to the thick part of the fuse sides for added support. The other is to remove the upper part of the fuse sides as far as the front of the wing and place a block of blue foam there. Then cut the slot for the fin and make a seat for the horizontal stab. Which do you guys think would be better/lighter ? Edited By MThemadhatter on 14/04/2012 20:26:07 Edited By MThemadhatter on 14/04/2012 20:32:50