Terence Moore
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Yes very nice stickers thank you, straight on the box side
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Thanks martyn, look forward to receiving my stickers Terry
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Fortunately the Bootlegger fuselage is quite deep, so the servo's don't clash, just the pushrods & horns to the flaps. Makes you wonder how they squeeded in the older larger sized analogue servo's etc in the 1960's & 70's. Ah well, the joys of building it yourself. ARTFers don't know what they are missing!!!!
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The second layer was left slightly loose to allow a degree of adjustment, before epoxying ( 30 minute again ) and clamping into place, with the wing fitted.
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As per last posting, I had to "shape" the wing bolt plate around the flap torque rods. therefore I laminated 2 thicknesses of 3/16" ply to "beef it up". The first thickness was fitted into the precut slots in the ply fuselage sides, reinforcing the edges with triangular balsa stock.
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Martyn, I can also only get about 45-50 degrees of down flap. However in a similar configuration on my Revenger, this was sufficient to produce a marked reduction in approach speed, as well as a steeper angle . One drawback of the torque rods is the "interference" between flap pushrods and rear wing holding down bolts. My next posting should show this, and how I resorted to a single (larger than normal diameter) plastic bolt, with thicker plate for the spike nut.
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When satisfied with the alignment, I protect the leading edge of the wings with cling film, and epoxy (30 min) the dowels in whilst they are projecting through the fuselage bulkhead.
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Sorry about picture orientation, but next was to position the wing to the fuselage, temmporarily whilst drilling through for the dowels. At this stage I measure from each wingtip to centre of the rear fuselage, to ensure symmatry.
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The next step was to reinforce the centre sections of wings and tailplane with fiberglass bandage. Heavier duty for the wings.
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Sorry about the orientation of that last picture.....
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Have sanded the angle at the root of the tailplane halves, set up to give 2 1/4" +10% under each tip, and joined with 30 minute epoxy. Wings and tail now ready for epoxy glass bandage reinforcement.
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This shows the wing cut out for the flap servo, which will connect with single pushrod to the "strip aileron" type horns. Also can see the top surface position of the dihedral brace and draw strings.
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The previous photo showed the 1/8" strips glued in over the servo lead cut outs, as supplied by Steve. The dihedral brace strip, is forward of the wheel wells, at the deepest part of the wing. Draw strings for retracts and aileron servo's are positioned. Now ready for glassing the centre section, but will wait untill tailplane similarly set up, to avoid mixing 2 lots. Also gives time for repeated checking of alignments.
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Next I have set the dihedral + 10% under each wing tip and epoxied the wing panels, incorporating a 1/8" ply dihedral brace to hold it all together whilst the 30 min epoxy cures. Also time to check the alignment of the control surfaces.
