PassTime Perigee Build thread
OK, here goes. I got a PassTime Perigee, and am starting to build it. Don't expect this to be a fast-moving thread, I hope to have her ready by early summer 08. Also, this won't be a stick-by-stick build, just the highlights, insights, and lots of assembly photos.
First impression of the short kit - very nice quality, light balsa, laser cut.
My biggest surprise as I started to assemble the wing - the spars are curved forward! Lots of pins into the board are needed to keep things aligned. One of the plywood dihedral braces needed a slot widened. A word about the spars, they are delicate. Read as in "I broke it several times playing around and fiddling with the ribs"
The center rib has only one supplied, not two as shown on the plans. This rib is out of thicker stock, but not thick enough to fill the slot. I added a doubler of 1/16 balsa to fill it out. Since I'm planning on outboard aileron servos, the center cutout was not needed, so the 1/16 atually strengthens this area.
Photo 1 - center rib doubled
Photo 2 - assembled egg crate
Photo 3 - curved spars