Tracking my R/C Plane Builds and Key Moments
Monday, Peter & John came over and we shifted focus to the fuselage, specifically getting the firewall situated. I obtained a user Saito FA-100 for my engine and it came with a metal mount. Based on the diagrams provided the engine needs to be side mounted with the muffler down, this means the head of […]
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On Feb. 16th we started by cleaning up some previous tasks which involved: Cutting off the excess from both ends for the leading edge Sanding the ends of the leading edge and all spars to be flush with the side of the outer rib As a sample you can see how the ends looked afterword
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On February 15th Peter came over and we furthered our progress on the wing. Prior to getting to work we needed to study the ‘instructions’ and looking closely at the diagram, Step 3 of the wing section, I could determine there were shear webs (WJ in the diagram) front and back of the main spar.
Building Aero 3D Day 25: Shear Webs Glued Read More »
Yesterday I did a little work on the wing myself. I trimmed off the excess of the remaining spar we glued in the previous session and then did some intial sanding of all the spar ends. The one end can be seen in the picture above. Today Peter and I glued the leading edge onto
Building Aero 3D Day 24: Leading Edge Glued Read More »
Yesterday we started by sawing off the main excess for the three spars glued into place during the last session. We then flipped the wing over. From here I we used medium CA to glue the 1/4” x 3/8” hardwood cut to 11/2” length pieces into the bottom slot of each set of W2 ribs to complete
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On January 29th we started with getting in the two W-HW-1, 1/4” x 3/8” hardwood cut to 11/2” length in place that slide through the rectangular openings in the W2 ribs. These are the two ribs that sit close together, one on each end of the wing, where the servos will eventually go. These were glued into
Building Aero 3D Day 22: Top Spars Glued Read More »
Today started by reinforcing the scarf joints, seen in the featured image above, using gussets which in this case is made out of wood (filler I believe). The pieces are cut to the width of the sides they are going on (1/4” in this case) and a length that goes a bit past the scarf joint
Building Aero 3D Day 21: Ribs Glued & Scarf Joints Read More »
Yesterday I learned how to make a scarf joint and then proceeded to make four of them. For this model the wing is one piece; however, the spars are not long enough in a single piece so need to make them out of two pieces. Since need one for top and bottom need two of
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