Richard Steane 1
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Well Chippie model WB624 finally made it's maiden flight at Buckminster a week or two ago with my good friend John Putt on the sticks. It took to the air easily and a couple of clicks on the trims were all that was required. We kept the flight short to around three minutes so that we could check on the battery and temperatures. The wind was rougher than I would have liked and a gust at the last second caused a heavy landing on the starboard wheel that bent the torsion bar mounting rearwards. This put an end to further flights as it was not possible to straighten it at the field. After a little surgery this is now repaired but I am waiting on the delivery of softer springs to put in the oleos, as I reckon the originals are too strong. I'm hoping softer springs will help take the sting out if it happens a gain. Here is a final photo with the livery applied. Richard
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It is unreal that it is two years since my last post but months of chemotherapy in 2017, a major operation, three weeks in hospital with recovery time afterwards in 2018 have rather got in the way of model building. All is well now and so just in case any one was wondering (probably unlikely I know), yes I have finished the chippy. Well almost anyway, battery cables to connect to ESC and safety plug, decals etc as you can see and a few other bits and bobs. No photos of the final build in progress I'm afraid, too busy getting it done, but three photos attached of the nearly finished chippy. Cheers, Richard
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Brilliant to see your chippy fly after all this time Danny. It must have been nerve racking but the low passes for the camera were great. The undercarriage damage is clearly at the anchor point to the rib and I don't remember if you followed the plan and used the single screw and clip or did something else. I was concerned about this and have anchored mine into a hole in a beech block that is then glued and screwed to the rib. Although I have sheeted over this area I could of course rework this (although I'm not sure how) once I get back to the build when my workshop is finally reinstated. Cheers Richard
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I've been reading the posts about hinge screws and thought that I would mention my solution to the problem by making a "shoulder screw" a photo of which I posted in November last year. This is a standard engineering solution to this kind of simple mechanism but is of course only possible if you have a suitable lathe. Progress on my Chippie is still stalled due to extension building work and will not resume until the new floor has been underboarded and the workshop becomes a safe environment for model aircraft. Cheers Richard
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Building work has finally started on our house extension so my model build area is filled with roof supports, bags of cement, lintels and goodness knows what else. I have managed to cut out everything for the battery box and the new formers to fit around it so here are a few photos of it dry fitted together.. I have designed it so that there is a split line down the fuselage join line so that each half (minus the motor mount plate) can be built in with each shell half. There are a lot of interlocking joints so I hope that this will be a strong but light construction. The motor mount plate will be fitted and glued into place as part of the work to join the shell halves. Underside view, I have made provision for two M5 wing fixing screws. Well that's going to be it for a while. So watch this space. Cheers, Richard
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Thanks for that Danny. I have not set a time scale so I have done whatever is necessary to get it as best as I can. If yours lacks anything on the inside (and I doubt that it does really) it will far exceed mine on external finishing when I get to that stage. Cheers Richard
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Well at last the wing construction is finished. As others have said before it has not been easy and there has been a little re-working along the way. But now I have a wing with undercarriage mounts, shrouds, working flaps and ailerons already for final sanding and covering. So now it is on to the fuselage when I get back from a couple of weeks holiday, so in the meantime here are a few pictures of the final stages of wing build. Centre section set up on sine table, ribs and spars for second section in place. U/c torsion bar bending. U/c mountings complete and view of flap linkage. View of completed upper surface. Underside Cheers for now. Richard
