Yesterday I did some work on the elevators by myself. This involved getting the perimeter of the right elevator pinned in place and then measuring the length for the ‘cross-braces’ making up the internal structure of the elevators and getting them cut and pinned in place out of 1⁄4” x 1⁄4” balsa stringers. The length …
Building Aero 3D Day 12: Elevator Framework Pinned Read More »
Today Peter & John came over. John and I focused on figuring out how to piece together the tail, specifically the stabilizer and elevators. The ‘plans’ for this build leave a lot to be desired and I’m hoping anyone else trying to build this aircraft is able to use these posts to subliment the diagram …
Building Aero 3D Day 11: Stabilizer & Elevator Begun Read More »
Today Peter and I made more progress on the sides of the aircraft. The day started by removing all the clamps from the previous session and seeing how well everything stuck. Overall we were very impressed with how the wood working glue held everything together. Using this glue is new to us. We then trimmed …
Today I sanded the sides of FU-ST-9, the balsa block at the very back, seen in the image below, to run smooth along the outer edges of the pieces it is glued between. I also glued some balsa pieces under FUH and to the back of former 10 (F10) to provide some additional support to …
Wednesday I made more headway on the build, working together with Peter. First we removed the balsa block from tail that was temporarily glued in place to help support FUH. Then we moved on to this sessions main goals. From a session by myself I had already prepped the FUBs to be glued in by …
Building Aero 3D Day 8: Landing Gear Block & Servo mount Glued Read More »
Peter came over this afternoon and we made progress on building the aircraft. Today we completed Step 3 and made progress on Step 4. If anyone is curious, for the fuselage there are 11 steps total of which Step 10 is a biggy. Peter brought over a bunch of balsa block scraps we could use …
This morning Peter came over and we tackled the remaining formers. We were very pleased with how the previous session set. We started this session by completing Step 3 of the instructions; I use that term loosely with this build. The final result can be seen in the featured image above. I mixed up a …
Building Aero 3D Day 6: Front Formers and Back Former Glued Read More »
Yesterday, Peter was over and we got to work assembling the fuselage by determining what we can get done in which sessions. What we essentially got done this day was Step 2 (minus installation of former 10). I did start by sanding the excess glue off formers 3&4, previously glued together, drilling out the wing …
