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A few more views Nice poses of the beauty.

battery hatch An important detail, keeps the battery out of the prop. Simple latch mechanism, can be backed up by removable tape if you want a bit more assurance. Works on the engine hatch too. Note to self: the hatch would close more easily if the flange cut-out wasn't blocked by the wire...

Top wing goes on The lugs are basically glue traps and position aids to get a strong, true wing/spar attachment without the use of jigs. Exhaust pipes go on at this stage. Note the Lewis gun on the top wing. People always ask if it fires. No, it does not :cry: Check to see the open...

Details on the forward fuselage Valve covers, machine gun, cockpit fairing, gun sight and headrest. These details add little weight and make the model much more pleasing to the eye. Note the lugs for attaching struts on the fuselage and the lower wing.

Seal up the electronic bay with upper cover The top of the forward fuselage is glued on. This is where the hatch and latch are attached too. Another system check. Views with closed and open hatch. Note the battery plug in the nose beneath the Rx The hatches main function is to make it easy...

Attach plugs, bundle the wires, system check In the first model I used recycled wire from a phone cord, which was too stiff to manipulate easily. Flexible spaghetti wire is much easier to pack. Quick system check, verify motor polarity, bundle the wires with electrical tape and check again...

Thread the pushrods thru guides and attach Push rods are thin gauge music wire, Z bent with a needle nose pliers. Actual Z bend pliers have been on back order since the Tang dynasty. You can just make out the ESC visible thru the cockpit cutout.

Attach lower wing, under carriage, tail I had to build a new rear fuselage, but it's just two patterns and ultra simple. Glue it all together and voila, a monoplane.

wings, struts and wheels Wings struts and wheels were also salvaged. I'm a lazy, lazy man.:cool: The wings are of semicircular cross section on the top side, flat on the bottom. Two internal spars. They are fitted with ailerons, but I've fixed them in place for this early prototype. The...

tail surfaces I salvaged the old tail surfaces from the crash of build one. Each tail surface requires multiple patterns to form skins, internal structure, hinges and pivots. Not that hard to build, really. The rudder and elevator horns are build from paper reinforced with music wire.

Motor, mounts and plugs Somebody may sell a mount for my motor, but I just make a lug from a piece of popsicle stick and epoxy it onto the housing behind the can. The lug is mounted to the fuselage using a a two piece spring clip and mount. I solder home made plugs to my motor, using male...

Attaching the motor and servos The motor and servos are mounted to the upper side of the box girder. So, lets flip the girder over and have a look :eek: There are little folded paper mounts for the servos, I've included a closeup to give you a bit of a closer look at them. Those little push...

RX in place The receiver is nestled in place between the corrugations to either side. The antennae protrudes forward and is bend down and around to the back. No choice in that matter, space dictates all.:curse: A small lipo battery box is glued to the bottom of the receiver jacket. It's a...

Box girder = lower forward fuselage The forward fuselage has two halves, the lower is basically a pierced box girder. The RX (in its jacket) is white glued to the upper side of the girder, with the RX connection pins protruding through the piercing. I had absolutely no choice in this matter...

RX jacket The model is basically built around the little 6 channel receiver. Getting the center of gravity right requires putting the relatively heavy RX in the extreme nose. In fact, the model cannot be properly balanced with less than 7.5 g of weight well forward of the wings. I could lose...

Electronics Bay All things electrical are crammed into the forward fuselage, AKA the electronics bay. The dimensions are roughly 14 X 4 X 3 cm (5.5 X 1.6 X 1"). You can make out the outlines of an access hatch (hood) at the extreme nose (left) that allows access to the engine. The blob just...

Model specs Model Specifications Scale: 1/24 Span: 30.5 cm (12”) Length 24.1 cm (9.5”) Airframe Wt. 17.5 g (mostly 75 g/m^3 paper) Take off Wt. 42.5 g Max thrust equiv. 20.g (measured) Cubic wing loading <8 (advanced trainer?) Motor: Hextronik 2g brushless outrunner with...

I've been designing my own scale, flyable paper airplane models for many years, for my own amusement. Mostly gliders, but a few electric free flight as well. In September of last year I started a quest to upgrade my odd little hobby to radio control. What followed was a rather long (16...

Just a test of run with a re-sized photo. Good enough! I'll put together a little photo show and send it out as a new topic thread.