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Scale / 1/3 scale Ka3

« on: March 26, 2008, 20:56:06 PM »

...Ah well.. 1 meter away should be invisible... :roll:

Fred, think about the fact that our gliders are just to perfect comparing to the big ones, so some faults are just right. And the big advantage, if somebody is making any remark about your finsh, just tell him that the big one was the same, its just scale  
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: March 23, 2008, 18:40:57 PM »

Look nice Stephan   . Keep up the good work.

Thanks Alan, hope I can keep up even if the design of the wings shows some features I do not realy like, but lets start from the beginning.
Even when there are not a lot of ribs and you should move fast I struggled at little bit at the begining. I do not like mounting the ribs only being fixed at the longeron and than fixing the leading edge and the trailing edge. I like to have two fixing points from the beginning on. Therefore I decided to work with an auxiliar LE of 3mm as we call it in Germany. When finished I will glue a second one of 3mm against the first.

Second, the ribs are glued just against the LE and TE without any recesses in the LE/TE I changed this at lest for the LE, as you can learn from the following picture ( I am missing some words in my vocabulary to realy tell you what I mean   )

After that changes I felt much more confortable with the construction. The ribs are quickly glued. Because I want to have to wing halfs, I also had to made two root ribs. They were designed with "profili2". The print-out I putted on 2mm playwood, cutted it and sanded it.
Thats now the current status. Before fixing the plugin mounts I have now to  prepare the second wing in order to properly adjust the dihedral.

Cheers
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: March 22, 2008, 12:51:35 PM »

So, as promissed some update about the building. As already mentioned the fuselage is after the straightening realy good and I could continue without any worry.
The next step was to glue the firewall with the right set-up (side thrust and the other thing where I don not know the right word  :!: ) which was quit tricky. After drying I cutted the upper front fuselage sheeting and glued it too.

Than, I cutted four square borders 10mmx10mm and glued it in the gaps between firewall and sheeting

... and after sanding it looks already realy nice

The fin set-up was the next delicate step. I throroughly ajusted and fixed it with some clamps.

With some ca-glue it was pre-glued and with thickened epoxy finaly fixed.
However I haven't realy trusted this set-up therefore an additional former was put in the front of the fin to get another fixpoint. I think now its ok.

After putting the rear sheeting on it looks alredy as a real fuselage and I can now attack the wings.

Cheers
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: March 21, 2008, 15:59:20 PM »

So Stephan, what are the results ?
All ok now ?  :?:

  yes, my water procedure was seccessful. After being completely wet, I put the fusselage into a kind of straightening rack and after drying it was ok. Pictures will follow this evening.
Cheers
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: March 18, 2008, 22:24:41 PM »

Today I began with the fuselage. At first I glued the former 4, than the bracing for the wing mount no 9.

Because the whole fuselage is somewhat bended I am not shure whether that was the right thing to do  :?:
I than glued both halfs together...

When I now want to put the firewall in, the bending of both fuselage halfs ist not symmetric  :!: I thus put the front in water for the night and hopefully tomorrow morning before going to work I can bend them easier  :roll: and let them dry till the evening.
Ceers
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: March 17, 2008, 20:39:31 PM »

...yeah, it will be tighter than I want it to be, but there are to many business trips at the moment  :cry:
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: March 16, 2008, 21:40:30 PM »

Ok guys
some business trips and than some vacation time delayed my building somewhat, but now I am back and I will start right away.
As indicated the ruder fin is somewhat sensitive and so I followed some advices I read in the german forum.
I decided to go with 0.6mm playwood on each side of the ruder fin. I think this will be enough.
First I plotted the two parts on the playwood sheet and drew the lines for the cut-out as indicated in the plan

0.6mm playwood can easily be cutted with a pair of scissors and thus the job is quickly done

I glued it with slow white glue and now it will dry under some 50kg weights :lol: till tomorrow
Cheers
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: February 24, 2008, 16:43:36 PM »

:clap:  That looks really neat and well conceived !

I don't see the plan for it... You have to buy it to the magazine ?  :?:

there is non Fred you have to buy it from the FMT, I have had the chance to find a guy via the internet who still have had the magazine and gave me the plan for nothing  
Steph

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Events / ISR Glide-In - May 10-11th 2008

« on: February 24, 2008, 16:41:14 PM »

...And the winner buy the Guinness by the way !
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Great, so no risk for me to buy anything  :lol:
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: February 23, 2008, 22:12:06 PM »

Ok lets start. Today my short-kit arrived, realy good service. I immediately put it to my basment and had a closer look. When I opened the parcel the parts were  nicely wrapped up in a bag

After unpacking, the parts are put together in the individual phases of construction

The parts are properly milled and some of them are alike the construction kits of childrens

and I was not able to wait, I immediately put some of them together, it fits realy well, and I just put some CA-glue where the parts comme together.
I also started the rudder fin right away

it's realy easy, in three steps its done

I red in the german forums that the fin will easily break so I will cover it with a layer of thin plywood and cut out the interior, as indicated in the plan.
Thats it for today, if there are to much errors in my english writing just correct me, I can only learn, because upright now I am not so used to the modell airplane vocabulary  
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: February 23, 2008, 20:43:32 PM »

only scale to fly in irland :lol:

 [-X I have had a look on the details Vincent, everything is alowed even this insulation stuff  :lol: and I decided to participate in one of the races :mrgreen:
Stephan

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Events / ISR Glide-In - May 10-11th 2008

« on: February 23, 2008, 17:17:14 PM »

I never have made a race, but I would be eager to do so. Can I participate with my wing  :?:
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: February 21, 2008, 07:39:47 AM »

By the way Steph, forgot to ask... You go electric with it or pure glider ?  :?:

I will vote for the electric version, because that allows me to use it in the plain too  :lol:  ok, it is against the pure rule  of soaring :roll:
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: February 20, 2008, 16:27:56 PM »

Hi Chris
yes, from all what I learned about it, it just ideal for the slope, I hope I can confirme that after my trip to Ireland  :lol:
Stephan

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Slope Soaring / Hai 1 - A glider wich fits into a suitcase

« on: February 19, 2008, 22:47:50 PM »

Hiya Stephan !  

That's a nice glider ! Looking forward for the building photos   ...

Yeah it has realy a nice shape, and I learned that it shoud be quit fast, thus just the right toy for the windy slopes of Ireland  :mrgreen: I only hope that my shipping strategy will work  :roll:
Stephan