Mounting the rudder post to the the carbon boom. Just using two blind nuts glued into the post itself, then drilled straight through the carbon. The bottom of the bolts can act like a landing wheel. Sweet! The only small issue i have is as you can see on the video, there is a small gap between the post and the carbon.
After having a discussion with the lads, it’s time to put together a tug that we can all use to launch scale and semi scale gliders. We tossed around the idea of a winch, but we agreed that the tug would be much more fun. So amongst all the other projects we will just have to squeeze this in. Below I picked up the model really cheap, so happy there. To pull it I went for a 30cc donk, now…
Getting back to the Watt’s New, it shouldn’t take too long to get up and running as most of the parts are laser cut.
A few small parts, 2 x Corona RX’s. I must say these are great value and for smaller planes, Pick them up on banggood or Aliexpress betwee $22 and $25. 8 Channel and compatible with the Futaba 10J Some small earth magnets, the door hatches on the FMS P-51 dont close properly, one the servos are just cheap, so i’ll swap those out with some metal gear ones and two, the earth magnet will completely close it stopping the air…
Almost completed the FMS P-51, it’s a big bird with a lot of weight. I’ve installed an ESS Air Sense sound module which on the video is at half volume. Next up is to cycle the retracts 10-15 times to make sure they don’t stuff up. Painted control horns to match the paint Exhaust smoke, so love detailing the planes.
Beaut morning for it, a lot of lift. Mike had some great launches with the DLG. (Vid below) I took out the Radian and the Mace, both flew great. I need to get my big 4m built and my Elelment 3.5 going.
Plans for this G6S-5 are on their way from the UK, Have never heard of it before, so it will be interesting to have a look at the plans to see if worth building. Plans say 120″ that on route, from the downloaded plans from Outerzone it has a very different flap deployment system too. Might to have a dig around RCGroups They arrrived, wow!
Decided to have a play. Takes me back my plastic modelling, painting the fixtures, simulating smoke off the guns, way cool stuff.
Had an awesome morning, it was really blowing and I was a little worried about putting up the Graphite, didn’t want to break such an awesome machine. But it didn’t bork, flew like it was on rails, such a great plane. Thanks to Mick and Steph for helping launch and hold the bungee peg in, I think we almost ripped it out a few times.
The A-10 comes with red and green nav lights, but i thought they are a bit weak and at a distance not visible. I grabbed a couple from flytron. I’ll post a vid of them running later on.