Built a Spad Debonair with a lot of modifications:

No square PVC pipe so built a Corro Fuse
Used a RNAF Wing Design
Used Wire L/G

Build pics to follow once I get over this 200 KB rider

So, 4 mm corro, marked out & scored on fold lines. A firewall from 10 mm Ply with blind nuts fitted for engine mount, with 2 more 10 mm formers. All these had a 1.75 " hole made with a hole-saw. 1.6 mm Ply to reinforce the sides, and a box made from 3 mm hardwood + 10 mm Ply to house servos & mail L/G

Servo tray, sort-of!

Overall look at this stage

You can see the Spadet I had built in 2007, flies well! 

Bottom of wing (4 mm) glued to one edge of top (2 mm) and ailerons, single spar in place, reduced the dihedral....plans call for 5", I used 3"

Close up showing dihedral brace

Wing top folded over & glued into place. I use SR 998 from Fevicol (synthetic rubber based)  Pre-treatment is scrubbing with a kitchen green scourer & NC Thinner, let dry fro 10 min., then press firmly together & Voila!

Get a fairly decent aerofoil section here

Another view of the aerofoil section

2 mm wing centre piece glued in place, servo holes cut out, & 1.6 ply bits glued for screwing servos

Servos, horns & cycle-spoke pushrods in place. Now, back to the fuse

Note 1.5" holesawed access for servo wires

1. Tail feathers glued in (both horiz & vert stabs)
2. Additional former from corro (2 X 4 mm, glued with flutes 90 deg to each other) with triangular support. This is to support the pushrods & give shape
3. Pushrods installed (elev+rudder/nose-wheel+throttle)
4. Note wood block for giving 90 deg support to vert. stab

Note nose-wheel push rod goes thru' the fluting at the end

Most useful tool - a PCB Hand-drill. Use for drill size up to 2 mm. Bought it on e-bay

LHS folded up & glued in place!

1/2" long X 2.5 mm Self Tapping screws go into the 3 10 mm Ply formers (incl. firewall)

L/G fitted, RHS closed up, OS 55 AX fitted (coz that's all I had available!  A 46 is more than enough)

Now, a mock assembly to finalise CG before fitting wing hold-down dowels, and closing off the top cover

Every lady needs some make-up! I used vinyl self-adhesive sheets

I make (as I guess many others too) stickers by getting pix from the net, & printing them on my ink-jet printer on photo paper. A layer of thin clear packing tape on top to fuel-proof. This is of our club, AAG (aeromodellers Asoc. Gurgaon) very beautifully designed by our club guys

Every SPAD needs one of these - Calvin "expressing" his views on ba&%#@sa 

At Bhondsi field, ready to go!

The maiden was flown by Sandeep Jain, a very experienced flier. I goofed up - the rudder horn & the nose steering arm are on the same side relative to the servo, but out of habit I put them on opposite sides of the servo arm! No matter, Sandeep took off straight. Lovely flier, very stable, flew easily on 1/2 throttle, and with the CG well balanced made a beautiful landing. Only adjustment needed was a tad of down elev. trim

Poor Gurvinder crashed & totalled his Boomerang, so he posed for this pic with the Deb!

hi,

chk my spads.

  Good one and the build log too ! Is there a video?

Quote from: sanjayrai55 on January 03, 2012, 07:28:11 PM
Every SPAD needs one of these - Calvin "expressing" his views on ba&%#@sa 

  Awesome!
Where can I get one of those? Or did you print it?