Final Assembly Has Begun
I have received part of my missing retract gear. final assembly has begun. Pictures soon.
The tank is mounting about 2" back from stock position and the forward servo tray is mounted one former rearward. It will contain the servos for the throttle, choke and retract valve. It all goes in rather nicely. The ignition battery is mounted on top (actually bottom when plane is right side up) front of the gas tank plate with velcro. All switches and valves will be located on one side of the plane. the ignition switch is mounted in one of the black checkers on the nose. I may try to semi-hide the receiver switch in one of the decals on fuselage side.
I have discovered that I do not have to chop up the choke lever on the DA50 carb. I can run a nyrod parallel to the throttle cable and mount another mini servo next to the throttle servo. Actually, I'm using two Hitec 225MG servos here, and another for the air valve.