Sunday afternoon Peter came over and got caught up on my progress. Since we were done on the fuselage for now we put it aside for safe keeping and focused on the tail control surfaces to start with. For the rudder, stabilizer and two elevators I prepped them for hinging. At this point I also …
Building Aero 3D Day 19: Hinging Prep & Wing Beginnings Read More »
Today I made some more progress on my Aero 3D. I started with the gluing portion which focused on the fin and rudder. The result seen in the image below. I had everything laid out from last session so I started with the fin and glued all the pieces together. I actually missed the cross-brace …
Wednesday Peter came over and we got to work on the aircraft. I replaced the defunct far right rib of the horizontal stabilizer (image above) with a new one. We then marked a center line on the trailing egdge and rib so that when we placed the rib back we knew its positioning. We then …
Building Aero 3D Day 17: Stabilizer, Rudder & Fin Oh My! Read More »
Yesterday Peter came over and looked at what I had laid out for the fin & rudder so far. We then moved back to the stabilizer and got the trailing edge and ‘intermediary’ piece cut to size. Starting with the trailing edge we did the following: Cut the end off at a 45 degree angle …
Building Aero 3D Day 15: Gluing Stab, Rudder & Touch-ups Read More »
Today I started finding the pieces that make up the rudder and fin of the aircraft, pinning them in place. I started with R1 (the top of the rudder) and R2, which I will say is a cross brace of the rudder making up the bottom of the front half that hangs over the top …
On June 17th, you can see where the silicone after drying was cleaned up around the wing ‘craddle’ in the fuselage in the featured image above. In the image below you can see where the hatch, covered in yellow to match the top of color scheme of the aircraft, was screwed into place. This allows …
On Dec. 18th I could really start to see things coming together as I worked on putting the bondages for all the control surfaces into place. The first step was to ensure the hinges fit into the slots off the main surfaces (wing for ailerons and fin & stabilizer for the rudder & elevator respectively). …
Building Seamater Day 44: Gluing Hinges / Control Surfaces Read More »
On Nov. 27th I started the process of covering the elevator and rudder for my Seamaster. This day consisted of covering the ends and trailing edges of the two control surfaces. This is done first in order to ensure the edges are properly covered and ensure there is no exposed balsa in the end. In …
Building Seamater Day 42 & 43: Covering Rudder & Elevator Read More »
