Yesterday we finnished the rotor unit and started on building the hull and pylon
Here you can see the finnished unit from last week. Now we put in a metal bushing and a metal pin for the hinge movement.
Here a bigger hole has been drilled into the rotor connetion part. In the hole a cilinder is put in. This cilinder contains out of to ballbearings and two metal pipes. One put into the other to prevent the ballbearings from moving.
Now a slot is carved into the 2 cilinders. The cilinder is put into the rotor connection part (must be tide fit) with glue. The carved slot will prevent the cilinders from moving.
These are the parts for the pylon and hull. (engine mount and landinggear holder and spacing parts are missing)
Pylon being glued. It is containing out of two half with and some spacers. (sorry no pitcure of it)
Final result
Now we started on building the hull. Here you can see the bottom plate and the side platings put together. The engine mount helps keeping shape. Next to the needles you can see the landinggear holder. this part is glued between the bottom front of the side hull platings. (Damn, it sounds like a Star Trek battle ship
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If you look carefull you can see the extra placed square block to strenghten the landinggear.
The next picture shows all the build components of today. At the hull you can see 2 extra decks
. Between thes the pylon is kept and also the tail pipe ( see first picture topic) which in this case is from carbon but ours will prolly be from aluminimum because it a lot cheaper.
You can also see there is an exta piece of wood glued onto the pylon. This will be given a round shape for airodynamics.
Here a picture of use working really hard
