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Black is Beautiful

My first covering job!

Top

Side

Stealthy profile

Painted prop tips

With Tx

Halved dihedral: happier ailerons

Arming switch;
CA'd hairtie holds ESC

Elastics hold landing gear (no tape!)

Battery hangs by two rubber bands.

Aileron servo completely embedded.

Wing bottom

Sleeves poke through covering

Aileron horn

Oracover'd breakaway extensions

Top

Counterbalanced tail

HS55 elevator servo,
HS81MG rudder.

Tail overview

Stir-stick captures tailwheel.

Dowels, strapping tape reinforce elevator

Oracover'd wires

FMA Quantum 8 Rx
Wing: unsheeted white foam, coated with carpenter's glue cut with water.
Thin hardwood dowel epoxied to trailing edge.
Oracover Lite tacked to dowel, wrapped around leading edge, back to dowel again.

Ailerons: Du-Bro parkflyer aileron rods epoxied into grooves in the foam (but outside the main spar, oops -- you can see the creased bottom covering).
Sleeves are bent not too much, so the wee HS-55 servo can overcome the resultant extra friction.
At the servo, the rod ends overlap a bit. A screw cinches them together, allowing overall up/down adjusting.
Flush aileron servo is nice and smooth that close to the prop, epoxied to a CF spar. The spar and strapping tape distribute the load, so the servo doesn't just rotate in place and chew up the foam.

Decided against separate servos to allow for flaperons: that would cause strong washin and tip-stalls on final approach. Safer design for later: a single large flap between the main booms. Extra-heavy tailwheel wire.

"Servo saver" springs on rudder control rod, so tailwheel shocks don't dislodge it
(HS81MG metal gears won't strip).

Fin epoxied to stab, so tailwheel impact doesn't pull them apart (only stab is attached to booms).

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