Camille's Tubular

Manta

Projeti

1.1 1.0
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2.1 2.0 1.0
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Tubular

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E1

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Tubular Page 1 | Construction

Stabilizer bones: Drela HT 14 low-drag airfoil	Channel for V wire at TE root; 4-ply balsa	Carbon tow stiffens stabs' TE
Stabs mounted with aramid cloth	V wire	Detail
Stabs, bottom view	Cloth wraps around LE	V wire peeks out behind boom	Carbon on LE
Bevel on rudder's LE, carbon rod on TE	Detail of too-big control horn	Carbon cloth stiffener
Redesigned low-profile control horn	Upright	Detail
Dab of epoxy along ribs holds skin	First strip of shiny film	Shiny film on rudders, before and after
West System drizzled into lower boom	It stuck poorly to Teflon tubing, though	Testing the CG
Former 3 wrapped with carbon tow	Jig for gluing former 1 between booms	Former 1 aramid-lashed & glued	Former 2 lashed & glued; diagram
Jig for lashing/gluing landing gear	Side view	Top view	Front strut lashing
Front strut JB-welded	Skids and struts all lashed and glued	Front view	Top view
Freed from the Lego mold!	Skid detail	Wing saddles, test-fit and for real	Jig for aft wing pylon
Motor mount and tailskid	Again	Inner face (4 screwholes)	Motor onto boom (tape keeps out dust)
Bending front wing pylon	Saddle lashed to front pylon(s)	Side view	Top view
Front pylon lashed to booms	Top view	Detail
Front view with saddle	Side	Top
Test-fit wing, side view	Top view	Test-fit battery
Battery tray; balsa servo mount	CS-5.4's lashed together	Press-fit mount over servo flanges	Albert the Great watching epoxy cure
Carbon/balsa antenna mount; ESC glued	Antenna pylon dentistry	Joint between wing halves...	...reinforced with aramid cloth
Impact shield, only 3 grams	Coroplast/packingtape mold; carbon tape	Layup: West System & hair dryer	Foam mount glued onto motor
Blue-foam servo fairing, Sharpie'd black	Aramid "guy wires" stiffen tailboom	Sheeting the wing incidence wedges	Lower sheet is grooved for saddle

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