trainer rebuild (going good)
03-26-2004, 12:28 AM
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trainer rebuild (going good)
HI all, just wanted to share a quick pic of my repair to my beloved trainer, ( my first i got 2
years ago, its a 12 year old Hobbico Flightstar, at the end of my first flying season,
I toasted it into the ground , and felt very sad for the thing , so after it lanquished for awhile in
pieces, I decided to repair it , more for experience than anything, so far i've replaced the first
14 inches of fus, by splicing new front end to remaining end of fus , going to make it a taildragger, i picked this plane up used, for 30 bucks, looked like crap, but i got 100 flights out of
it, till it crashed, previous owner put about 400 on it, so its had a good long life , and hopefully
will continue to keep on going. its amazing what a bandsaw can do lol and other tools
also, gotta love that Sig lite ply!!!!
Best Regards, ( and keep it safe!!!!)
years ago, its a 12 year old Hobbico Flightstar, at the end of my first flying season,
I toasted it into the ground , and felt very sad for the thing , so after it lanquished for awhile in
pieces, I decided to repair it , more for experience than anything, so far i've replaced the first
14 inches of fus, by splicing new front end to remaining end of fus , going to make it a taildragger, i picked this plane up used, for 30 bucks, looked like crap, but i got 100 flights out of
it, till it crashed, previous owner put about 400 on it, so its had a good long life , and hopefully
will continue to keep on going. its amazing what a bandsaw can do lol and other tools
also, gotta love that Sig lite ply!!!!
Best Regards, ( and keep it safe!!!!)
03-26-2004, 11:44 AM
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RE: trainer rebuild (going good)
I have one of these planes that I'm not going to use. If you need some parts PM me.
Take a look at this thread.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_15...tm.htm#1574309
Take a look at this thread.
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_15...tm.htm#1574309
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RE: trainer rebuild (going good)
Heh, sounds like your FS40 is going to learn ya the same way mine has, lots of repairs, but lots of flights too 
Good plane, keep it going.
Good plane, keep it going.
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RE: trainer rebuild (going good)
just wanted to say, sorry for crudepic of my repair, I simply laid that part and side of plane
on flatbed scanner., giving it a piece of shaped wood appearance, plane's rebuild is really in 3D
lol , with both side formers done, and attached to fuse with internal doublers , ( very strong, like
new) firewall is in, bottom is complete, fuel proofing is done, I'm now scratch building horizontal
stab, which is going very good , I'll try to get better pics of it with a conventional camera for
later!!!!!
on flatbed scanner., giving it a piece of shaped wood appearance, plane's rebuild is really in 3D
lol , with both side formers done, and attached to fuse with internal doublers , ( very strong, like
new) firewall is in, bottom is complete, fuel proofing is done, I'm now scratch building horizontal
stab, which is going very good , I'll try to get better pics of it with a conventional camera for
later!!!!!
