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Old 05-28-2013 | 06:43 AM
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MTK
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Default RE: DERIVATIVE, New 2X2


ORIGINAL: MTK

The wings came ot pretty light at 392 and 387 grams w/o servo and wing tube.
Fuse with canopy and chin cowl, 1086 grams
Stab total including tube,211 grams.
So around 2300 grams ready for equipment. That was the goal weight from the start for the completed model.
I've had and continue to have set-backs with health so work on Delta has crawled. But did manage to fit the equipment in it over the long holiday (except did not maiden Delta yet)...

It's a larger monoplane thanwhat we normallysee in pattern, (exceptingthe biplanes and triplanes), at 1150 square inches of wing.

A full 2 meter by 2 meter platform.

All paint, basecoat clear coat finish, over silkspanned and/or glassed wings, stabs and rudder.

DLE55 cc petrol engine on my own design soft mount. ES Composites 55G carbon pipe; hatori header plus extension. Mezjlik 20x12 3 blade carbon prop; TT 3" spinner. Thrust to weight ratio of 3:1 should be a blast to fly.

All up finished weight 4895 grams, which meets the original goal for this model..........

Photos will come as I take them.........Flight report after it happens......