RE: Byron Hellcat, need help
Got my maiden flight in after the servo updates.
She flew great. The G-62 is more than enough power.
I was flying 1/2-3/4 throttle.
The right stab came loose after the landing.
I had too much trim throttle and she kept on trucking into the grass and hit a small ditch and flipped over.
I'm glad the stab came loose: it didn't look like a good epoxy job and 'better on the ground than in the air'.
pic 1:
I used a carbon fiber tube that was a total 17" long.
7" into each stab and 3" for the fuse spacing.
I just drilled a hole in the external ply on the stab and fuse.
Since the stabs are foam core, I just pushed the CF tube into the foam.
There was a 12" X1/8" X1" piece of ply that cracked where the stab and fuse meet.
I just used the ply as a guide to push the tube in.
I leveled the stab and supported the tube so it would go in parallel.
I sanded the ends of the tube so it would kind of cut into the foam.
I drilled a bunch of holes in the fuse and stab where the two met so the epoxy could form tiny rivets.
pic 2:
Stab end.
The hole on the left is the one used.
The initial hole on the right had some brass tubing in the way which was probably for the pin hinges.
pic 3:
Ready to rock and roll!
It fit so tight that I didn't even have to touch up the paint on the top of the fuse.
The CF tube is very light but I used a lot of epoxy so I'll have to check the CG again.