Pat Barnes

Looking good Dave. 2 evenings to go! Here's hoping the weather gods are with us for CJ!

Cheers - Pat

Dave Wilshere

Pat

Yep...

Nose steering with silicon holding wires when retracted

Started wing, cleaned up opening and started on cover and servo mounts.

Dw

Dave Wilshere

Skipping quite a bit and it's not as finished as it looks, but it is getting there, few issues I'll talk about later. Wings need finishing, but I'm on the home straight and will see my bed for more than 3 hours tonight

Geoff White

Good work Dave, You are a shining beacon to people like me that take ages to put models together. Mind you I need my 7 hours of sleep a night to keep my youthfull looks

Dave Wilshere

Can't say I have enjoyed the last two days, but it gets it done and stops Trev taking the P.

Dw

mtnflyer14

Dave,
In post #70 you picture the "M&R UAT". I can only find the BVM UAT here, and can't find the M&R company online. Can you provide any more info about this UAT? I'm looking for an alternative to BVM's $66 (US) UAT!
The UF looks awesome and I appreciate all the pics; I'll be saving them for my build. C-ARF just told me today that mine will be on the ship arriving US in mid-November, so I have a bit of a wait.
Regards,
Gus

Dave Wilshere

Gus

Motors & Rotors is my company, but I'm talking about a MAP Canada Bubble Trap.

Stickers going on...

Dave

Xairflyer

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should have got stickers made in blue would have looked smarter

tucson

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Dave your canopy looks great.

How did you get that color?

Thanks,

Stan

Carsten Groen

Gus,
there is another alternative to the BVM, http://shop.jet-1a.com/product_info....roducts_id=124 , it's only Euro 30,- (even -19% VAT!), I use those in all my jets, works perfectly....

Dave Wilshere

Its a RC car body smoke tint

More. I had cut all colours and we can swop if it's not liked!

mtnflyer14

Carsten,
Thank you very much - I checked it out online and given your endorsement, I think I'll try it in my UF.
Dave,
The tint on the canopy really looks nice in cotrast to the airframe colors.

Regards,
Gus

Dave Wilshere

I like the tinted look and it means no cockpit, so that saved an evenings work!!

Dave Wilshere

Ok, step back and these are a few things to watch on early kits.
On my kit the four elevator servo mounting holes in the hatch had two out by 3-4mm (hence the washers) CARF are looking into this.
On the retract mounts you can only have washers under the rear screws otherwise the screw head is above the hatch.

The silicon on the nose steering looks messy, but works really well with no rubber bands!

The aileron flap servo mount carries over from the Flash. On my kit the Flap servo linkage line was out by 12mm, so rather than mount the servo conventionally, I mounted the Flap servo from the top. Other makes of servo you might need to check heights. Again CARF are looking into this.

Dw

Geoff White

Good work Dave. Look forward to seeing it tomorrow in the flesh.

trevor Skedge

D,

Dream on.

T.

Dave Wilshere

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tucson

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Dave, simply amazing that you can put one of these together so quickly and smoothly. And at the same time give lots of details and pictures.

Are you saying that the canopy tint is a film that you attach to the inside of the canopy? Sorry to bother you at this awkward time, but I would like my Flash which I am finishing up to look that good.

Thank you,

Stan

Couch Potato

Dave, go to bed, you need your beauty sleep !

Good luck with the UF maiden at CJ.

igorcar

Hello Guys,

First thing the plane is simply wonderful,
I like to know what servos you used and what leads?

Thanks

Shui

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Hey Dave,

Looking good, I have a few headed my way

Sonicwings

Hi Stan,

I can answer your question re canopy... its a airosol can, tamia i have, for polycarbonate rc car bodys, spray inside, how many coats you put on
determins how dark the end result is... fast and easy...

Chrs Jeremy.

john josey

I hope you have a set of matching floats for this dave !

tucson

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Hi Jeremy,

Thank you for the information. I will look into getting some.

It really looks nice.

Stan

geh3

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Having a main tank with a flat bottom is nota gooddesignfeature. Even designing in a slight curvature on thetank's bottom would improve reliability
(by reducing air infiltration into the UAT when the main tank gets to 1/2 full or less!)