Glider for Intermediate Pilots - Vladimir Models Mini Graphite

[Hawkeye]

Show bottom must pay money

[JYZoom]

Show bottom must pay money

Aiyo we are all old generation already including me, now a days young people show for free on Facebook....:-)

Ps: I should charge also for the new design for my Backfire , only one other person know so must share share ....:-)

[pixeldixel]

Show bottom must pay money

the bottom wing is na.. na.. "naked"?

[tansc]

Setup

Yes. I showed him a design by sending him a file. He did it exactly.

So... this new "girlfriend"'s setup, what's it going to be like?

[kiply]

Aiyo we are all old generation already including me, now a days young people show for free on Facebook....:-)

Ps: I should charge also for the new design for my Backfire , only one other person know so must share share ....:-)

Bro you will love this plane

[Hawkeye]

Bottom is simple dark blue with white stripes...

What ever the design, top and bottom must look different to differentiate orientation of plane. Bottom always dark, top always bright. Extremities(wingtips, tail and nose) must have good contrast against the blue and grey skies we have here.

Not good enough to look chio....must be practical too. So far Neon colors are the best. But depends on who does the paintjob as Neon colors fade fast with too much sun.

As for power setups, still considering. I want it to be a hot dogger aerobat. Not so much for speed. The plane not designed for it.

[tansc]

Camping for your setup details.

[Hawkeye]

I started the build by setting up all the wiring harnesses to the servos. I planned to make the tail removable so I used deans 4 pin as the main interface.
Like wise for the wing halfs, each side got a 6mm hole drilled 130mm back from the leading edge and 10mm inboard. Wires threaded and terminated with deans 4 pin.

[Hawkeye]

I spent 5 hours on the tail today. The servo covers were cut to determine the push rod location. The slot for the horns are than cut. The horns were sanded down so that the hole is 6 mm from the control surface.

[Hawkeye]

The tip of a needle file was used to make cross hatches for better grip with te medium CA. Push rods were bent to length when servo are sub trimmed 90 deg and control surface are leveled. Servos are than glued ino position while powered and servos covers finally CAed into place.

[Hawkeye]

Last nite I started on the flap servo installation. I'm using MkS mini with the frames. The plywood frames are soaked with CA to toughen and stiffen the frames. Than everything is dry fit and also to determine the length of the pushrods and the position of the servos. The clevises are loctite to the rods to ensure no slop. The sub spar had to be grounded down to make sure the push rods did not get interfered with throughout the full motion of the servos.

[Hawkeye]

Wing is all done. The motor arrived and now waiting for the spinner and prop. Looks like another 6 hours work to complete the plane. Only left the motor mount, cooling holes,rX power module and switches, wire the motor and esc and program the the TX.

[Hawkeye]

Finally the wing servos are installed. Nose cone carbon reinforced. And RX module assembled on carbon tongue. Now left the cooling holes and marrying the esc to motor.

[Hawkeye]

I hate cutting Kevlar. After 3 hours. The holes are cut and shaped. The motor a Neu 1509/1.5d is married to a cC 200 lite.

[rt9]

Congratulation!!
and they live happily ever after