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not sure what happened ?? Sorry for the dubbel post...

Hey guy's Next on the (long) list are the gunports. I've chosen the El Salvadorian paint livery wich use two guns in the nose. Most Fouga's dont have them so they are not in the moulds. I found a way to make them without opening the fuse too much! First i made a little mould of the fuse nose section Then added two pieces of Metal tube wich have the exact form i needed.( it's a tube that holds the hangers in an old closet. When sanded and painted , i'm going to mould this part on the inside wich gives me the perfect gunports...i hope !

Hey guy's Next on the (long) list are the gunports. I've chosen the El Salvadorian paint livery wich use two guns in the nose. Most Fouga's dont have them so they are not in the moulds. I found a way to make them without opening the fuse too much! First i made a little mould of the fuse nose section Then added two pieces of Metal tube wich have the exact form i needed.( it's a tube that holds the hangers in an old closet. When sanded and painted , i'm going to mould this part on the inside wich gives me the perfect gunports...i hope !

More plane jewelry ! X

After the mass balancers it's time for the coolers on the motor hatch (pic). New technique: I changed a round pvc plumming tube into a flat plate by heating with a paint stripper, Next , i formed a flat piece into a half rond tube on a 11mm round Metal bolt. Next is a flat piece for the base , glued together gives a perfect cooler!

Thanks Danny ! The mass balancers are ready to sand and mount .The screws will be replaced by epoxy pins glued in. The bases will be screwed.

Note that the red elevator is a test piece that was too heavy... Glad i didn't bin it

Hello all ! After the first flights it's time for the detailing ! Before the paint job , i need to make all the little things that "dress"the model like the elevator mass balancers , scoop, cooling air intakes, antennas... I started with the balancers. Made up the bases from aluminium scraps and the rest from epoxy plate. Everything has to be trimmed but i'm happy so far .

Yesterday , July 17 , 2100h ,Haaltert , Belgium ,on the airstrip of modelflying club "The Little Wings" we did the first flight with the unpainted fouga EDF. At the sticks""die hard "pilot Gunther Ferket , myself at the trims , assitance from liftime model pilot Rik v Avermaet , Jonas Ferket at the camera , Heidi Steenssens on the timer. With the sun decending , light breeze down the runway , flaps at 50 % , full throttle , and with a gentle "pull" , the 14 kg heavy fouga lifts for the first time from the ground , after 5 years on the workbench . Two clicks "up" one click right aileron is all she needs to fly perfectly straight. A few circuits high , a few low , testing flaps , a carefull roll to the right , one to the left and after 2.5 min. A test approach to land. Half flaps , landing gear down , 2meter above the corn , a little too fast she lands back to earth. .She needs the whole runway to stop Just in front of the end ! Alltough rather fast , she wo 't break any speed record but is a very stabiel, forgiving plane , with no bad habits at all ! With a few adjustments in the transmitter and airbrakes yet to install , she can land on 3/4 runway A Quick battery check after 3min. flight shows us we have 65 % capacity left ! Good for 5 min flights MISSION ACOMPLISHED !! Fouga magister 1/4.5 Span 2m70 Weight 14kg Fan : schübeler 128mm on 14s/10000mah gens ace ESC : YGE 205 Retracts Electron Servo's Savox Light system : uni light No plans , no computers ,build from scratch ENJOY !

Roll-test done ! Everything worked fine ! Next: first flight ! Stay tuned! 20230710_214206.mp4

Up to this evening , i was busy programming my transmitter . It was a long time since i had to do this so it took a while ! Also new to me was programming the ELECTRON gear controller with touch screen. This system needs only one receiver channel for gears , doors and steering and can switch up to 8 gear doors , i only have one... Only thing left to do is mount the fan back in , attach the inlet ring , and charge that ''brick'' existing of 4 packs 7S 5000mah ! That makes 14S 10000mah....need some power ?? One of these days , on a calm evening , we'll do a roll test and if all goes wel do the maiden flight ! fingers crossed !! I'll try to make some video and post!

As you can see in the last pic , the tray holds 4 battery pacs. The wiring is made to keep the mounting simple . I can connect all 4 pacs before i mount the tray in the plane. All i have to connect in the fuse are the pos. and neg. to the ESC. The ESC is located just in front of the fan , in the airstream for cooling (bottom in pic ) The gear contoller and light controller with their battery are ''hanging'' just under the canope. The receiver is located behind the fan , away from high current cables. It's a 12 channel multiplex dual feeded by two 2S lipo battery's 2200 mah switched on with a powerbox digi switch with two exit's to the receiver

Hi guy's ! long time no see ! I know , it's been way too long sinds i posted my progress here but i want to get this bird in the air before my vacation ! I'm not far from the first roll out now ! Most of the time was spent on fitting all the rc stuff and getting the CG right. I geared up my PSS fouga to mesure the right spot and transfered it to the EDF version Now i could start to position everything that's needed to fly : receiver , receiver battery's , gear controller , light controller , gear battery and flight battery's. I wanted the option to change the CG position by moving the flight battery (3.2kg ). Therefor i made a sliding battery tray.

hello all ! Sorry i didn't post for over a month ! I've been very busy with all the small things to do before the first roll out. Things like the tail wheel ,opening up the inlets , tail light , are all done ! The flap servo's are also installed , rudder servo's , aileron servo's , all the linkages , wireing the wings, rudders , ligths , retracts , all done Finally i stumbled upon a problem with the nose retract... The connecting pin on the ELECTRON retracts is one of 6mm but the nose strut needs a 1/4 inch pin. So i had to find a 1/4 inch pin and enlarge the trunion and steering part on the retract. This took a while but in the end it all worked out. Now , to find the ideal spot for the batterys (14S 9000mAh) , i need everything in position , find the CG ,and figure out the best place for all the electronics. This will be the first time the plane is on its wheels in flying configuration !! x x

Third post in one day !! Must be sunday ! To screw anything onto the fuse upfront , i need a former ,actually i need two ! One that's glued in and one removable that holds the light. Here is the second one (with the light) screwed to the first (glued in the fuse) with an opening to slide in the canope-pin. On the box is the nose cone with a third former glued in and holding the magnets . The magnets will attract the metal screws of the second former and keep the nose cone on the fuse Here the nose cone is trimmed to allow the ''cone '' window. Another time consuming small part !! The window is made the same way i made the tiptank nose windows. I filled the nose cone mould (holding the trimmed nose cone ) with car body filler . After curing , i sanded away 1MM (the thickness of the window ) . That 's my plug to vavuum-form the nose cone window. After a few try-out's with the vacuum box , i got a perfect cone window ! Done for now !! Tonight a tail wheel support gets born !! Thanks for watching !!

Small parts ! right ! Next item is very similar to the tip tank nose : the nose cone . The cone itself was made a long time ago but still has a lot to be done to ! - trim it to allow room for a landing light - find a way to attach it - hide the pin for canope and front hatch removal But first i did the canope attachment . In the back it's just a M4 bolt that fits in a slot. In the front , the canope is held down by a 2MM metal pin slided in via the nose ! Thesame pin holds down the nose hatch next : the nose cone

Hi guy's Small parts can take a lot of time to make !! That' what i found out the last couple of days !! The tiptanks are ready now,( quickly made a second one ) , exept for the nav light...out of stock !

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Hi guy's ! I hope you enjoyed the cake as much as i did ! Ha !! But i had more joy from the fact that i have 2 perfect tip-tank -nose-cone nav-light-windows !! I tried to upoad a video and i can see it on my mobile but not on my PC ! Any options ? 20230211_163129_2.mp4 20230211_163129_2.mp4

Oohh , i will Ron ! It is just a lot of time and material wasted !! So , we need a plug that has the inside form of the nose cone but we need it on the outside !! I filled up a nose cone (protected with very thin plastic) with car body filler , after curing , sanded it down 1mm , and took away 1mm of the window edges. This will allow space for the 1mm PET_G of the window. I'm going to do a test drive without paint to see where this is going... Got a 0.8mm PET-G ready in the vacuum frame the oven at 130 deg. and the vacuum leaner ready to suck ! x As soon as the PET-G "hangs" , some 3-5 cm. it's ready to be used ! 20230211_163129_2.mp4 I hope this worked ... x x x x x

Hi all ! The nose cones are out of their moulds and the openings for the windows are grinded with only pic's as reference... The plan was , right after this , to make the windows... Man i didn't know you could lose so much time on a small part like these !! Here's what i tried : I placed the nose cone back in the mould , covered it with a layer of PET-G ( Heated) folowed by a wooden cover with a hole in the middle to allow compressed air above the PET-G . This would force the PET-G in the opening of the window to forme a perfect "glass" window... It failed...big time... like ten times!! Wasted enough time and PET-G with this "reversed vacuum forming" i went the other way : vac uum !! Too hot , too cold , too thick , not enough pressure , too much ..... First thing now is to make a plug of the window... Pic's later ... x

Hello all ! The gear doors on the second wing are fitted and working ! I also fitted the servo hatches and made some supports to accept the screws that hold them in place. Next item on the list is fitting the tip tanks . I made one long time ago as a test for their weigt and came out on 77 gr without the nose. Come to think of it , i still have to make them ! I used the mould of the glider version as they are exactly the same When i designed the wings , i added a tube to hold the tip tanks . All ! need now is a 10mm wooden dowel ,glue it in the tank at the right place and reinforce the joint After curing : the fit ! In case of touching the ground on landings ,they could damage the wing so i'm going to make a weak point in the dowels where they exit the tank , like a sawcut or so... Let's hope i'll never need it but that's the break point to save the wings ! Next thing is to make the windows in the nose cones and get the nav-lights in. Stay tuned !!

Hello all , Wth the gear door lay-up fully cured , i disc-grinded the doors out of the frame but left the main gear door in one piece .(it has to be cut in 3 pieces later) With the gear strut in retracted position , i presented the door to the door-opening. Satsified with the fit i marked the position of the mounting holes and filed these area's with a blob of thickened epoxy. Imediatly presented the door to the opening again and left it to cure. To prevent the epoxy sticking to the mounting supports , i protected them with a piece of plastic , easy to remove. After curing i lifted the door and drilled the mounting holes in the door. Now it was time to cut the door in 3 parts like the original.This was done with a very small disc grinder (proxxon)to prevent losing to much material. After some fitting i was happy with the result ! I made a video but it was too large to upload , sorry , i'll shoot another tomorrow. Sorry for the wrong screws in the fotos , these will be replaced with sunken ones later... It might take a while to finish the other wing as there's a lot of fitting !! Thanks for watching !

Hi all ! I made the grear doors as planned and after curing i lifted them off the moulds , no problem. It could be the new parts are'nt fully cured but they feel to weak for the job. I'm now sorry i didn't add airex between the layers cloth. If they don't get harder , i'll make another set with airex , but that means i have to use vacuum and 2 wing moulds don't fit in my bags ! That means another 2 days ! While i left the parts to cure , i used the time to finish the nose gear door control. Another item i can remove from the long "to do list"