Red
Very Strong User
Finally got my hands on this beauty! I thought I would do a build log in a separate thread then Doc’s since his is more focused on design aspects.
I’ll be using GDW servos and Tomas Liu frames for this one. First impressions are holy cow this thing is big! Ive flown larger scale birds, but for a pure slope machine this has a serious presence. I love the somewhat scale reminiscent bulbous fuselage, plenty of room for even the largest batteries. Another nice feature is that if you wish to go electric, the fuse is round so you can simply cut the nose off at the appropriate diameter and install the power system of your choice.
The fit and finish is very, very nice. Everything fits together nice and tight but smooth. Control surfaces are cut cleanly on the ends and fitted with nice gap seal/wipers. The wings have ballast boxes provided in the root, and mate to one of the beefiest square joiners I have ever seen. It is provided with a nice compliment of accessories as well, including some that I would usually pay extra for from another vendor like a ballast tube and prewired harness with Graupner style connectors. Also included are servo frames (mounts) all servo covers, clevis and a nicely pre fit G-10 servo tray. All in all an outstanding value.
I stared with the tail. The rudder and elevator are using GDW DS1901C servos. The elevator install is pretty straight forward. I did have to source a ball link to fit over the 2mm joiner wire for the elevator. The linkage is quite short, but enough room to make it work. The servo/frame combo was installed all in one shot, and bonded in place with BSI rubber toughened CA, which sticks amazingly to the carbon.
The rudder was a little bit more fiddly. I wanted to keep the opening as tight as possible, so the pushrod requires a bit of a kink to operate smoothly. No big deal but I did have to assemble everything in situ. Thoughtfully, the proper length servo extensions are also included, so after a bit of heat shrink tubing over the connectors and a few more pieces to hold the wires together, they were fed down the fuselage from the rudder servo opening. All in all very easy build so far! I still need to add the radio tray and ballest tube, but the wings are up next.
I’ll be using GDW servos and Tomas Liu frames for this one. First impressions are holy cow this thing is big! Ive flown larger scale birds, but for a pure slope machine this has a serious presence. I love the somewhat scale reminiscent bulbous fuselage, plenty of room for even the largest batteries. Another nice feature is that if you wish to go electric, the fuse is round so you can simply cut the nose off at the appropriate diameter and install the power system of your choice.
The fit and finish is very, very nice. Everything fits together nice and tight but smooth. Control surfaces are cut cleanly on the ends and fitted with nice gap seal/wipers. The wings have ballast boxes provided in the root, and mate to one of the beefiest square joiners I have ever seen. It is provided with a nice compliment of accessories as well, including some that I would usually pay extra for from another vendor like a ballast tube and prewired harness with Graupner style connectors. Also included are servo frames (mounts) all servo covers, clevis and a nicely pre fit G-10 servo tray. All in all an outstanding value.
I stared with the tail. The rudder and elevator are using GDW DS1901C servos. The elevator install is pretty straight forward. I did have to source a ball link to fit over the 2mm joiner wire for the elevator. The linkage is quite short, but enough room to make it work. The servo/frame combo was installed all in one shot, and bonded in place with BSI rubber toughened CA, which sticks amazingly to the carbon.
The rudder was a little bit more fiddly. I wanted to keep the opening as tight as possible, so the pushrod requires a bit of a kink to operate smoothly. No big deal but I did have to assemble everything in situ. Thoughtfully, the proper length servo extensions are also included, so after a bit of heat shrink tubing over the connectors and a few more pieces to hold the wires together, they were fed down the fuselage from the rudder servo opening. All in all very easy build so far! I still need to add the radio tray and ballest tube, but the wings are up next.
