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Old 06-15-2012 | 12:32 PM
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From: Rupelmonde, BELGIUM
Default RE: Marutaka F4U Corsair 61 -Electric ScratchBuilding-

The wing is completed, all controls are installed and finetuned.
Only need to cover the bottom center ... but I'm out of white oratex for the moment.
I had waited with sheeting the fuselage until all controls were installed and adjusted (it's easier to work with the unsheeted rear fuselage).
I've noticed that I haven't taken any picture of the fuselage controls. The servos were located at the cockpit floor, and Ihad used 14gram (metal gear) for elevator and rudder, and a cheap 9 gram as tail wheel retract.
Realizing that the weight of the plane would end up much higher than planned, I wasn't happy with those small servos, so I ordered a few standard ones (32gram digital metal gears).
As these are a lot larger I had to redesign their location since the 3 small ones could fit next to each other on different layers, with their control rods overlapping in 3D space. Of course the larger ones could not.

I decided to move the tail wheel retract servo deeper into the fuselage (closer towards the tail) which would allow me to keep the original location of rudder and elevator servos.
In order to safely work on the (inverted) fuselage I cut a foam jig which allows me to support the fuselage straight or inverted.


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