yup they are in the hoven, but i'll first fly the bird without them and see. I plan to make a nose gear door acting as speedbrake
I just ordered a spiner from tru turn for this bird 2-7/8 3 blades with custom cutting to fit a graupner 14/7 costed me around $100 including shiping charges
some peoples feel confident enough to make this kind of cuting without making a cardboard template, not me.......
the engine box bottom is normaly in 1/4 balsa. With the cut I will make for the nose gear I was a bit concerned about the integrity of the piece, that's why a rebuilded it by making a lamination of 1mm ply and 5mm balsa (this make around 1/4 inch)
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Well, no retracts here on mine, just a simple DV built per plan. Since I took a break from building over the holiday season it's been awhile since my last post.
Here she is after covering. All that's left to do is the final radio installation, gap sealing and balancing.
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Well, since it's mid winter here in the Water Winter Wonderland (Old slogan for Michigan) it will be awhile before I do the maiden flight thing.
As for balance, it was pretty tail heavy before I covered it. So, I installed about 10 oz of weight in the TE and a large battery (4x2600mAh cells) at the back of the rear hatch area. I haven't gone back and re-checked the CG yet, so I don't know for sure how the final balance will work out. Once I get all the radio goodies back in I'll have to check it again and probably adjust the battery location.
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wonderfull bird can't wait to read your maiden flight report
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Well after 2 hours of shoveling snow last night I managed to stuff all the radio gear into the DV. That meant I could check the final weight and CG location. My AUW is 7 lbs 12 oz. However, my CG is at the very rear of the recomended range. That tells me that I over did it with the weights in the rear. I can substitute, in a smaller battery and bring the CG forward and loose as much as 1/2 pound.....I think.
Anyway, it's been a fun project to build and I'm sure it will fly well when springtime comes. In the mean time I have another project to get started on, it's called the Southern X2 or SX2 Funplanes. The construction is very unusual, so once I get it started I post some pictures of that in another thread here in the Kit Building forum.
I'll keep checking back here to see the progress on your DVs as well.
Cheers,
Wiz
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no problems to route the servo wiring trough the small holes?
None at all. Of course, I put the elevon wires in before I covered the plane. The rudder wires I installed by fishing a small dia music wire through the hole and then I taped the servo connector to the end of it and pulled it through.
It turned out with 3 hatches, one on the bottom of the engine box (like the stock one except he is screwed with six parker screw on small ply square blocks),one equipement control access hatch on top with springloaded lock for easy operation, and a large botom hatch made by laminating a piece of 1mm ply and a piece of 1.5mm balsa (for such a big aera I glue with spray glue). this big hatch allow access to absolutly everithing except the airbottle. I could have closed some more aera on the bottom, but this large hatch makes the acces radicaly easy. this large hatch is screwed with 8 parker screw and rest on 2mm balsa sticks glued all the lenght on the inner side of w1 ribs, it's screw on the gear spars and on two transversal small spruce plates I had to move the steering servo in the engine box (original planed position was in the back near retract and throttle servo), but I tried for 2 hours to obtain a good steering control without any "play" and without any move of the nose wheel during retraction, without good result. I radicaly solved that by instaling the steering servo in the engine box (need to be a mini servo to clear the wheel).
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