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Old 04-22-2010 | 07:04 PM
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Default RE: Another 'HOTS' only bigger !

The wing is more or less standard aside from the 5x10mm subspars I´m installing to the rear of the wing. These also doubles as part of the wing servo mounting. The main diference is in the mounting of the wing. Since I´m installing a 500ml fuel tank I didn´t have room to put the dowels in the leading edge of the wing which would be the normal procedure, so they are located higher up in the bulkhead above the wing.

I used 3mm liteply webbing on the 10x10mm main spars and I will be fully sheeting the wing with 2mm balsa.
This will make it a bit heavier than a stock built Hots, but since I´m also installing an engine quite a bit larger I like it to be a bit more solid.

I´m hoping of a finished weight of around 6 kg which should be OK for the available power.
I´m using an APC 18x10 on the engine, and at the moment it´s spinning this at around 7600-7800rpm, but I have a new carb coming which may boost this number a bit since the carb I´m using now is smaller, and seems to be suffering from a blocked high-speed circuit.

I will take some more pictures tomorrow showing the progress.