Well many thanks for all that info Luke.
Anticipating the problems you spoke of vis heavy landings I too have put in extra doublers. In fact I've put them throughout the whole of the front section and back to just behind the wing saddle area. I've also reinforced the floor of the nose and lined the whole front section with a layer of glass. I figured that rather than use lead as ballast I might as well use the reinforcing as ballast. (I did think of calling this model "
Bomb Proof" A friend said he thought
'Nuke Proof might be better :lol: My wife recons no model is Keith Proof ...........she says I break everything I fly!)
(She's not very understanding!:roll: )
Left with the problem of how to get the banding dowels through the fuse, and past the wooden elevator control rod, I've used parts of the original
metal aileron control rods instead of
wooden dowels (I've fitted servo's in the wings to operate the ailerons.)
Being smaller diameter than wooden dowels I can just get the metal rods through the fuse, beneath the saddle doubler, and over the top of the elevator control rod. It's all a bit of a tight squeeze, but so far I can't see any reason why it wont all work. :?:
So thanks again for coming back to me Luke. I've just finished covering the tail feathers so it shouldn't be long before it's time to maiden her.
Watch this space, I'll keep you posted.
Keith
