-
- Administrator
-
-
Before your membership becomes valid, you will receive an email that must be answered.
Please check your spam folder or this email.
DART 17r QUARTER SCALE**
- chris williams
- Posts: 1569
- Joined: 10 Mar 2015, 10:50
- Location: Blandford Dorset
DART 17r QUARTER SCALE**
This is another in my OAP-Friendly range of designs, and I expect to be able to self-launch without too much difficulty when normality returns to the throne...
The fuselage and empennage are all newly drawn, but I've retained the Compufoil files from my last 3.5 scale version. As this was to be E-assisted, the wing chord was extended by 5%, and as it flies so nicely, I've retained this wing for the new version...
The fuselage is assembled by the usual half-shell method...
The fuselage and empennage are all newly drawn, but I've retained the Compufoil files from my last 3.5 scale version. As this was to be E-assisted, the wing chord was extended by 5%, and as it flies so nicely, I've retained this wing for the new version...
The fuselage is assembled by the usual half-shell method...
- chris williams
- Posts: 1569
- Joined: 10 Mar 2015, 10:50
- Location: Blandford Dorset
Re: DART 17r QUARTER SCALE
With the planking and diagonals applied in sufficient quantity, the half-shell can be removed from the board....
Re: DART 17r QUARTER SCALE
If you don't slow down, that will be ready to fly soon...
BC
BC
- Cliff Evans
- Posts: 1034
- Joined: 29 Dec 2019, 15:13
- Location: Bristol
- Contact:
- chris williams
- Posts: 1569
- Joined: 10 Mar 2015, 10:50
- Location: Blandford Dorset
Re: DART 17r QUARTER SCALE
C'mon, Barry, you've already aerotowed this one...do try to keep up!
- chris williams
- Posts: 1569
- Joined: 10 Mar 2015, 10:50
- Location: Blandford Dorset
Re: DART 17r QUARTER SCALE
It became obvious at this early stage, that fitting the chosen retract was going to be a tricky business...
- chris williams
- Posts: 1569
- Joined: 10 Mar 2015, 10:50
- Location: Blandford Dorset
Re: DART 17r QUARTER SCALE
Meanwhile, the building up of the fuselage continues...
- chris williams
- Posts: 1569
- Joined: 10 Mar 2015, 10:50
- Location: Blandford Dorset
Re: DART 17r QUARTER SCALE
Continuing with the fuselage: The u/c doors are from two pieces of .8mm ply laminated together to follow the curve of the fuselage
- chris williams
- Posts: 1569
- Joined: 10 Mar 2015, 10:50
- Location: Blandford Dorset
Re: DART 17r QUARTER SCALE
The retract of choice was the Topmodel 099ELRS 1/4 scale electric retract. This has the advantage that the inbuilt motor leaves space either side of the frame for the rudder and elevator servos inside a fuselage with notoriously restricted space. The disadvantage is that instead of the conventional prongs fore and aft, this one is designed to be screwed in from underneath. As it turned out the edges of the mounting plate could be used in a conventional fashion with a bit of j-j-j-jiggling about, Granville. When the job was done, I suffered from a touch of builder's remorse in that maybe the the rear former could have been placed more conveniently. If anyone has a go at this design, I would recommend getting the retract first before building commences... (At this stage, Motley's version was similarly completed)
- chris williams
- Posts: 1569
- Joined: 10 Mar 2015, 10:50
- Location: Blandford Dorset
Re: DART 17r QUARTER SCALE
Moving on now to the AMT...