Liftworx Seeker.
Tip-launch glider (like a discus launch). 107 cm span. 123 g (4.3 oz).
Built 5/2004.
Two CR2 camera batteries, FMA M5 rx, two CS 5.4 servos.
Black Sharpie marker on all lower-facing surfaces. Too much yellow Blo-Pen on wing top (needed much 3M77 for covering to stick; washed Blo-Pen off before retaping wing in 2006).
White paint on stab top, covered with yellow highlighter.
Polyurethane sealer on lower half of fin and rudder.
Servos shoe-goo'd onto blocks instead of using servo tape, for easy alignment.
0.3 mm piano-wire hook CA'd into fin's LE prevents the rudder's
control rod from popping free.
Fin epoxied to boom rather than CA'd: thick CA was getting stale and failing.
After 20 hours of flight time, I learned that
rain or dew makes yellow highlighter run, and that sunlight quickly fades Blo-Pens.
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