RE: Big Stick 60 goes boom...
Well, I somehow managed to get carried away, and somewhat lost in my work on this one.. Iforgot to take any pictures of the assembly process.
This was really astraight forward rebuild. Ireally just created servo mounting plates in the tail, mounted the servo's and upgraded the pushrod's to 4-40 hardware. The fuse sides were just re-cut out of balsa. The actual frame of the airframe was undamaged, so there was really no structure support/strength to worry about.
Sheeting was finished, servo's and pushrod's installed, and the covering has been done.
The OS 110 was left with Dad, and a Saito 82 was used to replace it. Because of the difference in motors, Ialso had to relocate the throttle servo.
Ialso decided to loose the nose gear, and mount the main gear up front, to make this a tail dragger. To keep things simpler, Ijust use a piece of music wire in the tail as a skid, rather than mounting a tail wheel setup. This is actually the exact setup as my 2nd plane Dad handed me down when Iwas a kid.