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Old 11-27-2011 | 07:56 AM
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rangerfredbob
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Default RE: 24cc Echo conversion

I could have sworn I had newer pictures than these, but here you go:




I now have the center of the wing covered and 3 of the 5 servos are connected. Mine seemed to be glued decent but it's probably a foot shorter than yours... this thing is tiny, especially to fit all I did in it. All said and done it's 5lb 13oz which is probably a bit on the heavy side but we'll see. As you can see the nose is short, cut half of what was sticking in front of the wing off and widened the wing about 3" for some more wing area and got rid of the dihedral while I was at it. Also changed to dowel and screw wing mounting from rubber band mount. The tail is what I thought was flimsy, it's built up balsa with no hard wood spar at the trailing edge, so I cut a channel in it and CA'd in a piece of carbon fiber strip that's bowed to meet the leading edge, helped wonders.