Concorde
Art Hobby Sky
Terry
2.0 1.1 1.0
Seeker
Wild Thing
Koleos-E
Aero Ace
All planes…
Radio-Control Airplanes
 Climbing out |
 Shiny foamie! |
 Iridescent film over Oracover |
 Film highlights trailing edges |
 Drilling holes for wing dowels |
 1/64 plywood hardpoints for dowels |
 Shortened Jeti JES 012 ESC cables |
 Deans base-loaded antenna, naked |
 Rudder filleted and counterbalanced |
 Control-horn howto |
 Elevator gap mostly filled |
 Elevator hinge: Oracover |
 Carbon tow under 3/4-oz fiberglass |
 Polycrylic tacks glass; blue-foam stab fillet |
 Almost 1 oz of pigmented West epoxy |
 Two more coats of Minwax Polycrylic |
 Depron shims brace control rod sleeves |
 2x 3/4-oz glass, tow, balsa, Depron, Velcro |
 Glassed cabin floor |
 Rx mount: shoe-goo to wing dowel |
 Depron patches cover wing divots |
 Wing bottom: glass TE hardpoints and tow |
 Upper tow painted white; LE hardpoints |
 White oracover top wraps around edges |
 Oracover with/without shiny film |
 Maiden overnighted in a tall tree |
 Gliding with digicam |
 View from digicam |
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Graupner Terry.
Speed 400 foamie powered glider (folding prop).
Maiden flight 5/2005. Custom canopy 4.2g instead of stock 15g. Unlike metal pin retainer, supermagnet tears free cleanly during a nose-in (proven).
Weight budget (grams):
Static thrust test: 13.0A, 7.6V, 360g thrust 12000rpm (pitch speed 34mph).
Version 2.1, maiden flight 10/2005:
Apogee 3s1p 1050mAh, 11A continuous Prop must unload to under 10A in flight, since the ESC doesn't shut down or melt. Firewall salvaged from a Braun espresso machine's stainless steel grounds basket. Maybe the caffeine residue makes this version fly best. It almost feels like a pylon racer. |
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