Reaction 54 Jet Kit
#4001
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Back from the field, I made 2 flights with my fellow's p60 instaled. My R54 is defintly tuned and trimed, I consider it being fully airworty in my fleet and it's time to jump in a other project. I decided to give me a relaxing building and I went in my storage room, found a complete new spring air retract (originaly planed for fellow sig king kobra I never builded) and a new ASP .90. I looked in my collection of "kits waiting" to find a matching airframe and I ordered a genesis pusher pipe )
Time to build a USA balsa enforcer
I had that one in mind for years, time to jump in that building
Time to build a USA balsa enforcer
I had that one in mind for years, time to jump in that building
#4003
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While you're at it you should do a Turbine Enforcer. I had a lot of fun with mine. Here's a thread I started a while back.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-j...-enforcer.html
Joe
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-j...-enforcer.html
Joe
#4005
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While you're at it you should do a Turbine Enforcer. I had a lot of fun with mine. Here's a thread I started a while back.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-j...-enforcer.html
Joe
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-j...-enforcer.html
Joe
I already ordered my next turbine powered plane. A znline wizard. and I have to keep the enforcer project "democratic".
that building should go straight and fast, the only concern I have is when I look the long stock nose gear wire. It could do the job with the spring air retract, but i feel it could be a bit weak and bend easy. So I ask myself if I sould order robostruts
Last edited by SALMONBUG; 05-22-2018 at 10:49 PM.
#4007
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I have sanded the horizontal stab, rudder and wings with 100 grit to even all the joints on the wings in preparation to glue them togather so I have to do less after joining them, at the end I will give all the parts a sanding with 150 grit to prepare them for covering, I also made sure the elevator, rudder, flaps and ailerons are fitted just right.
Last edited by CARS II; 05-23-2018 at 08:39 PM.
#4014
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Another good tip for those wing tips.
Relieve the trailing edge and embed a piece of 1/16 music wire into the trailing edge formed to go around and about an inch along the tip toward the leading edge, wrap that with a layer of light glass cloth. these pointy wing tips of very thin balsa are very easy to get hanger rash on, this mod will make them a LOT stronger so they stay pretty longer.
Relieve the trailing edge and embed a piece of 1/16 music wire into the trailing edge formed to go around and about an inch along the tip toward the leading edge, wrap that with a layer of light glass cloth. these pointy wing tips of very thin balsa are very easy to get hanger rash on, this mod will make them a LOT stronger so they stay pretty longer.
#4016
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Many years in the past, I built a Zone 5 Vortex ducted fan sport jet. Dan's solution to the wingtip issue was nice. Each wingtip was two balsa blocks, an upper and a lower. In between went a thin piece of carbon fiber. You adhered the three pieces together and then glued to the wing such that the CF was centered in the cross section of the airfoil. When you shaped the balsa blocks and finished sanding you had that CF protecting the edge from dings. Worked quite well!
#4017
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Many years in the past, I built a Zone 5 Vortex ducted fan sport jet. Dan's solution to the wingtip issue was nice. Each wingtip was two balsa blocks, an upper and a lower. In between went a thin piece of carbon fiber. You adhered the three pieces together and then glued to the wing such that the CF was centered in the cross section of the airfoil. When you shaped the balsa blocks and finished sanding you had that CF protecting the edge from dings. Worked quite well!
never said your job was wrong, i just shared what seems to work for me