Gliders > Slope Soaring
Mini Toons type close-in aerobatics sloper
Fred:
Thank you all! :D
And no, no number 4! I'm done! [-X
Alright, so yesterday, did a little bit of work on the Quark.
Firts, traced the line to insert the spar, on the bottom of the wing, using a big square to be perpendicular to the root.
Then, cutter, and insert the spar. Took roughly 2 minutes to do, and gives god strenght to the wing. I will add a second one on top as well.
It's inserted and then glued with thin CA.
I then traced the location of the wing joiners, and cutted them.
Everything is then glued in place with the key inside the tube with epoxy and everything is checked / double checked for all these things to be level etc.
Once dried, the usual filling etc, and time to put everything on the fuselage for the firt time to have a look at the beast! :D
Pretty pleased with the result!
This is also a very good size finally, not too big, but more important, not too small!
That glider would deserve to be bigger though... Anyone want to cut a 4m version out of styrofoam for the fun ? :D
Anyway, if I have a bit of time today, I'll put all the servos in, and get it ready for covering.
Almost there! :D
Happy Days:
Fred, are you using a carbon rod for a wing joiner? If so, what dia is it? And why are you using, what look like, metal joiner sockets in the wing halves?
K.
Fred:
Hey Keith,
In the wings, they are 10mm OD (8mmID) aluminium tubes (from the local DIY shop).
Wing joiners are 8mm fibreglass rods (this is black epoxy, looks like carbone, but it's not. The bling, but cheap! :P )
All that to add a bit of extra weight, as this is too light in my opinon. But can be replaced by a 8mm tube for extra light, and of course, carbone rods if you want to.
That just add 50 ~ 60 grs extra like that.
billscottni:
Hi Fred,
Send me the drawing and I'll have a look at cutting a bigger one. Perhaps fibreglass lost foam fuz and bagged wings?
I was intending to build a full size madslide, but this might be anicer model to fly.
Fred:
Thanks Bill, we'll do :D We can talk about that in 2 weeks with a good pint :D
Alright so, I had 2 hours to kill today, so I got a lot of work done on the glider.
First, the clasic fitting of the control snakes in the fuselage. Trace, slice with cutter, insert control snake, pour thin cyano. Et voila, done!
Oh yeah, by the way, did the radio bay with a piano wire shaped in rectangle, an fixed to my solder iron. Classic.
Next, moved to the wings, and fitted the ailerons servos. Quick job.
Traced the ailerons, all ready to be cutted.
I then sprayed the entire glider with 3M 77.
And finaly, the part that took me 1h30 out of the 2hrs I had : covering the entire glider with re-inforced tape and painting...
REally hated the taping part. That's a nice way to completely destroy a rather good looking machine in something full of wrinkles etc etc, especialy around the nose! :evil:
My plan was to cover all that with white vinyl, but after a minute of hard thinking and a cuppa, what's the point! That thing is supposed to be flown like there's no tomorrow, all terrain and all that! (plus, why spending hours on a foamy thingy to make it look like it's all molded!?. my own personal opinion of course, hope I did not offended some hardcore foamy lovers! :D :P )
Anyway, I sanded the entire glider to prep it for paint (nope, could nt left it tape naked either! :D ) and sprayed it with glossy white (hard enamel for radiators... They did not had white colour appliance paint at the local DIY shop :!: ).
Painted the canopy blue... looked too toyish! Back to black!
And here is the result! All done, just need to make the servos linkages, my job for tomorrow night :D
And for size (not easy to smile with the sun in your face! :P :
Overall so far, happy with the look of it, not so happy with my finishing !
First flight this week end wind permitting, or during the fly-in.
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