Noteworthy moments in my hobbies and tracking my R/C Plane builds (majority).
Last Sunday Peter came over and we re-orientated ourself to my Aero 3D building project. It has been a long time since last working on it! After discovering where we left off we got the elevator push rod slot made and cut down to size (exciting to use my Dremmel). Took quite a bit of […]
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On July 13th, I got out to Beauty Bay for the first time and golfed 18 holes with Jordan. I really enjoyed the course and look forward to golfing there again. The smoke from the forest fires around Northwestern Ontario really rolled in adding a different visibility element to the game. I’m usually one for
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On Nov. 11th made some more progress. Started with unboxing and getting 3 servos ready. For the two heavy duty control surfaces (elevator & rudder) using HiTech HS-645MG servos and for the throttle that doesn’t undergo the same amount of force a HiTech HS-425BB servo. For putting the control horns on figured out where each
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On November 5th, Peter dropped off my fuselage. At the previous session we noticed there was a twist from sitting for so long (uncompleted). In order to fix this, in the featured image, you can see where a support piece was put as well as balsa sheeting glued over the back of the fuselage to
Building Aero 3D Day 68: Where are we? Read More »
Yesterday, did some more work on the Aero 3D. In the previous session looked at how the fin would go on and discovered I previously chopped off a piece of the trailing edge that I shouldn’t have. I was wondering how the fin would remain stable on the fuselage and this was in part due
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Yesterday got the horizontal stabilizer glued. This involved the following steps: Marking where the back of the stab resides on the fuselage when in the appropriate place Using measuring tapes from the trailing outter corners of the wing to the same corresponding place on each half of the stab Making sure to position is such
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It is bitter sweet, though it was great to get back working on my plane last night it also means the end of another flying season. Granted there wasn’t much of a flying season for me, as had more important things to do… namely becoming a father for the first time. The session started with
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On June 9th Peter was over, the pandemic was less scary, and I was soon to be a dad! This session involved removing the duck tape and pins from the previous session to see how the basla sheeting leading edge held its form. We then slapped a bunch of wood glue on the balsa and
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