I haven't posted in a while.... Life got in the way. I crashed my dad's Ultimate and I live by the "you break it you fix it" motto so I had to go and repair that plane....



but I have made some progress....
for example the wing is very close to done.... just need to mount some servos.


The wingtips are going to get a short cap on them... similar to the new decathlon extreme.

and we got an engine for the plane....



we have started on the body as well, and should have some pictures shortly of that process.

fewer changes in the design as I have gone along...

- I cheated and used some CA... deciding there was a time and place for everything. There were a couple components to building the wing where pinning up and using slow curing glue wasn't practical. that and it wasn't an area I'd be sanding later made me opt for the quick cure CA over the titebond I'd been using. By and large though I'm still mainly using titebond as my glue of choice.

Servos for the plane came in as well. I got the last batch of Futaba's S3051HV servos, which are a high voltage, high torque metal gear servo with ~ 140oz/in of torque and only 40 bucks... its too bad they discontinued them. I need 2 more still... Futaba has a 3071HV that I might spring for to finish off the plane with, but they are $20 more b/c they are SBUS compatible... Annoying...I've also been watching for reviews of Tactic's new line of servos... they seem like they could be promising...