Mini - Pattern practice plane - Monolog at Nitroplanes
 

[link=http://www.nitroplanes.com/90a280-f3d.html]Monolog at Nitroplanes[/link]

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looks great.. also if you are a good builder you can scratch build a similar good looking plane. I have always thought of a small pattern plane for practice rather than directly flying a 2x2 plane...:D you can always fly new sequence on a small pattern plane & then fly the same on the 2x2:D

The plane looks great & the price is also decent..

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Wow, that's a great price.
I'm flying a small Vanquish Mk II for my winter practice and it's great. Perfect for tossing in the car when you get a surprise break in the weather and it flies just fine. I got out twice last week and turned in some flights that would have been non-last in any of the contests I flew in last year.

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The small brio was also good... but its no more available from Horizon hobbies..

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Monolog is made in 3 more sizes - 70, 110 and a full 2x2m plane. All are with electric, glow or gas options. I really consider a 110 or a full 2x2m for my self :)

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Scotty I just ordered one and you can play with it when I get it.

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i have one on its way, just curious as to what motor and esc you plan to use, i am planning on using the nanotech HK 2650 packs..any suggestions?

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Plug-in-wings??

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That explains the cold temps nationwide. Hell has officially frozen over if you are going to fly something. lol,

Arch

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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Actually a friend at work gave me two Turningy D3548/6 motors and ESCs which I plan on putting one in this plane, so it makes sense to get something that I can keep in the car, and for that price I couldn't pass it up.

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Get some of the little Dubro park flyer skis. Great for this size plane. If you haven't flown off of snow before, it is a real blast - it's fun just taxiing around!

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Bob snow is for for hunting, skiing, and going to the Caribbean.....not flying. I HATE being cold.

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Pete, I have a lot of the outer wear and other clothing I formerly used (when I was a fit young lad) for winter mountaineering. It still fits - barely! - and is useful for cold-weather flying.

I got out to fly quite a few times last winter, the coldest day being 8 degF. I was having fun just doing donuts with my Avistar.

I can say this without any fear of contradiction: When it's 8 deg and there is a couple feet of snow on the ground, you'll pretty much have the field all to yourself.[8D]

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Why not move to south? If you can fly in 8 degree weather, you can fly almost every day in winter:-)

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Looks like it from a quick glance at the contents of the box. Won't have time to look any more or unpack until tomorrow night but it looks nice.

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Thanks. Mine should be here Thursday.

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Looking at the photos, they MUST be plug-in because there are no fuse seams to indicate a belly pan on the wing![sm=teeth_smile.gif]

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Plug in wings for sure. Make sure when you unpack everything you do it over a clean bench or the box top. All my hardware was running loose in the box and hiding in folds of plastic. I think I found it all. The instruction sheet is a bit lacking though but adequate.

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I recant the instructions are adequate statement, it shows the elevator servo in a completely wrong place. I now have a nice open space in the covering of my fuselage.....oh well...live and learn. I will post pics tomorrow night as I assemble this thing.

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Thanks for the heads up on the loose parts and elevator servo location.

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UPS just dropped off my Monolog. Box was intact with no puncture holes. Good call on the loose parts. Every small part was loose in the box. I opened it up over a linoleum floor so nothing could get away.

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Pix of the build will be coming. The elevator servo location and the rudder servo location are not what the instruction sheet show. I now this for sure since I have a nice window in to the interior of mine.

Happy to hear you didn't let the parts scurry off.

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Thanks again. I'm going to unbox in a bit.

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Here is the side of my fuselage from following the direction sheet. Note the big hole should NOT be there. When you get yours you will see two rectangular openings under the covering, the smaller opening in this photo, open one on one side and the other on the opposite side of the fuselage.

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I use a soldering iron to cut open the covering, it cuts it neatly and sticks it down to the wood.

Make sure to open up the 3 tab slots by the wing tube while you are at it.

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I did a little exploratory surgery and found no slots for the control horns so I will be cutting my own, no hole or slot for the tail gear so I made my own and mounted the tail gear.

Once I put the wings on and opened up the slots for the horizontal stab, mounting and trammeling the stab and wing was simple and they are done now too. Only a bit more to do tomorrow night.

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The instruction MANUAL is one sheet of mostly worthless photos. The manual does show using a big hole for the elevator servo. Thanks for keeping me from cutting out the wrong hole. My canopy was completely unglued from it's framework. Got it glued back on last night. Those servo slots look awfully long. What servos do you plan to use?

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They are long, I cut a little light ply to make my servo rails in the slots.

I am perched upon the horns of dilemma concerning the elevator though. I am contemplating cutting the tips of the elevator off along the hinge line and gluing them onto the stab thereby making a straight elevator. The planes I have flown with counterbalanced tail surfaces needed a bunch of expo to smooth it out.

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The elevator halves on mine are misaligned by quite a bit. I may be able to bend the connecting wire and get them in line. One of the aileron hinges was missing. I THINK I have found a couple of slots for the control horns. Will know for sure in a while. I too used a soldering iron to open the needed holes, but missed the three little slots on each side for the wing. Yeah, what to do with the elevator. I don't think the counter balances are needed on this plane.

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Do you think this is really a BJ Craft Monolog, or a Nitro Planes ripoff?

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The wire connecting the elevator halves is NOT glued in.

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Not until the stab and elevator are installed.

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Good thinking. Been a long time since I've had a plane with joined elevator halves.

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Petec,

Which servos are you using? I'm new to these electric planes. Thanks.

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Airtronics 94803

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OK, other things to watch to for:

1) The holes in the wheel pants are smaller than the landing gear wire, grab a drill bit and ream it so you don't crack the pants.
2) No collar for the tail wheel but the small ply donut spacers fit the wire perfectly and a drop of CA keeps it in place.
3) The ends of the canopy latch wire are not glued or threaded on and will roll away on your shop floor in the blink of an eye. Put them in a nice little tray until you open the slot for the wire in the fuselage sides and then glue them on the wire ends.
4) The two allen head screws are for the wing hold down and their T-nuts are already in place. Make life easy on your self and put a piece of fuel tubing one the end. It will hold the screw on your allen wrench while installing or removing them and keep you from swearing a blue streak from constantly dropping them into the bowls of the fuselage.

I'm sure there will be more ramblings as I finish this up.

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I wound up using 4-40 T-nuts and hardware for my motor installation since I didn't have bolts to fit the metric T-nuts that were in the kit. Since I am using a 750w brushless the mounting holes were out a bit further than I think the designers anticipated so it actually made getting them on place easier with the T-nuts I used.

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How is the canopy latch wire held in place. The beads hold it from moving sideways, but what holds it from moving fore and aft. I don't have the little plywood hook in the fuse to keep tension on it. That's what they show in the drawing. Maybe I'm missing something.

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Hopefully the two pics make it with this post. My canopy would not go on far enough to engage the catch wire. I had to enlarge the slots in the pieces of ply that catch the wire. I held the wire in place with a piece of dowel. Works dine. Also have the motor mounted.