A little help needed. I'm building a 1/2A version of Chip's Dr. Jekyll from scratch and need at least a good side veiw pic or drawing to get the turtledeck and canopy close. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Bill

Here are a couple pix of my Jekyll kit, The kit is at a fellow members place right now. If you need better pix of the fuselage or plans let me know and I will put you in touch with him to see if he can help you out. I also have one here that has been stripped down to get ready to repaint.

Rich

how about this from the original file....


scott

That's perfect! Thanks guys.

not a problem... I have a bunch of drawings...

scott

Thanks Scot, I may take you up on that. Do you have any CAD files of Ed's Taurus? I started this building an updated version of the Pacer, then scaled down an Integral for a Norvel 74 (which flys fantastic) Then figured might as well represent most of the pattern generations so I started building the Jekyll, a Kaos will follow, but it wouldn't be complete without the Taurus, right? I had considered a Tippo or Currare, but I just can't get all that worked up to fight the linkage needed for the anhedral stab in 1/2A size.

Speaking of the Kaos, I'm almost finished scaling the 60 size down to a 25. I couldn't find a decent 25 plan, not sure anyone did one, so I just went from the 60 in CAD. Went pretty smooth until I got to the ribs. They scale fine, but 20 ribs on a 25 size plane seemed way overkill. But when you drop it to 16, the ribs don't scale down and still line up with the spar. So I had to redraw all the ribs. But almost done with that too. The older designs just fly too nice to let them go away. They didn't have computer radios so they had to design planes with little coupling that just flew well by themselves.

Bill

No CAD file of Ed's plane...

I have shrunk the deception also, just need to build it and was going to make it electric....

scott

What size did you shrink the deception to?

when I get back from my trip I will measure the plans and let you know.. be gone till middle of next week.

scott

Hey, I just noticed the pushrod is supported down the back with a bush in the tailpost...tricky idea....

hi bill,
         any chance of getting a copy of the half size jeck plan please , i can send dollars to you.

regards
steve underwood

Hi Steve,

I didn't do full plans so to speak, but I have all the lazer files for ribs, fuse, stab, rudder, etc. I think I quickly laid out the wing on a piece of drafting paper and built over it. Wouldn't take too much to do a plan as most it is done.

Here is a pic of how it came out finished (I dropped the sky background in as it looked better than the floor in my garage LOL)

Here is a link to the build thread [link]http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9987247[/link] Take a look and see what you think. It flys real hot with the 061, wind is no issue either.

Bill