Markus Drillkens
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Hi Max, you´ve had it to hand but can a multi layer of birch ply resist that forces a Spruce Mast can? Sorry I´m not an engineer but I had several rollovers with a fire Fly (also a design by Rich Harris) and never had problems with the Spruce Mast! Have not tryed a birch ply one yet! Rich has drawn the Atom Mast on the plan with the measurements 6mm x 13mm but you took 6,5x9,5mm, perhaps the 3,5mm less material make the mast not resistant enough for the upcoming forces!? Keep on going! Regards Markus
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Posted by Terry Whiting 1 on 17/11/2014 08:56:48: Markus, You have a nice looking model there. It might be just the picture, but it looks as though your blade roots look a little too long, there should be about 14mm between blade root end and the blue triangular flex plate clamp Hi Terry / Max thanks for your advice!!! I totally missed that detail! Now I´m going to cut the roots to have at least that 14mm gap between the blue truiangular plate and the blade roots! Thanks a lot!!! Today made up my cockpit area and the former to shrink my canopy around and that´s it! Also found a little Pilot! In fact that smurfs do have really big heads I decided only to make a silhouette because I wanted the canopy closed! Canopy isn´t glued yet because I want to add a little instrument panel in front of him! Perhaps a Azrael or Gargamel Radar Cheers Markus
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Posted by Richard Harris on 31/10/2014 17:57:55: Max, I like the fins, I did wondered whether coupling a central fin would make the rudders more effective for the 'Hot Doggers' amongst us being in the prop wash etc? anyone want to try?? Rich Hi Guys, I was thinking the Idea of this central fin, but at least I came to another idea, but look for yourselves: Greetings from Germany Markus
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Posted by Richard Harris on 02/10/2014 22:24:47: Markus, Yes, the Panther or Mantis blades scaled down should work fine. I would make them at least 5mm wider than the AJ blades. Looking forward to seeing your Atom come together Rich Edited By Richard Harris on 02/10/2014 22:25:54 Edited By Richard Harris on 02/10/2014 22:26:33 Hey Rich, blades finished! The first set of blanks I glued, came on with exactly same weight each! I scaled down the mantis Profile and followed your advice to make the blades 5mm wider than the AJ Blades Thanks for that! Blades dimensions here are 450mmx49mmx6mm So hopefully get my Canopy come together and getting the pushrods finished! Cheers Markus
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Mike, The Atom Mast (including the servo mounts for the Head and ail Tail) and the cowl are sprayed, blue Tail, Fins and the fuselage are covered with Oracover and the white and black decals are Orastick. the Panther is all oracover film including the white and black stripes! Only the Canopy white area is sprayed! Rich, Thanks a lot! We´ll see if this little Tail wheel works properly. Terry, Great idea! Think the only way to get to know if this works better is to build and test it. Cheers Markus Edited By Markus Drillkens on 06/11/2014 20:51:46 Edited By Markus Drillkens on 06/11/2014 20:52:50 Edited By Markus Drillkens on 06/11/2014 20:53:15
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Hi, very nice Idea using the little wing underside I for myself also had problems considering disorientation by making my first flights with a Fire Fly. Keep the gyro near and don´t let it get too far away! So here a few pics of my "Smurf Mobile"! Couldn´t resist to paint the Cowl in white and add some Decals which I used by my Panther. Rich, this little Pilot isn´t Easy to find , but I think I try to make one by myself out of foam and paint, in order to get a fitting scale for the atom! Further I build a little steerable Tail wheel out of thin piano wire and a half of a hinge, normally used for the Rudders on a fixed Wing Airplane! Think this will work fine especially using a hard underground to take off from. Greetings from Germany Markus
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