Let's build a Skeeter!

3D-profile electric plane

The source of plan is from http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=360600


Specs:

Span: 30 inches
Length: 30 inches

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Some error with the link..

nice built....

points to remember...
1> round off the edges left sharp as of now...
2> trailing edge and hing edge of control surfaces should be totally rounded else u will get jump or flat(edge) contact.. improper movement and servo loading
3> balsa surface to surface may become weak over time.. and by the next year they will disintegrate, but will go un-noticed as they will be held together by the covering. but will eventually give away. just add small triangular gussets at every joint just to increase the gluing area and proper bonding....

keep updating...

@ krish corrected

@ AEROVISHWA
thanks . .. .will do

nearly finished

if u are using cellopane sheet... u have to stretch it before gluing.... once the glue sets cant get the wrinkles out by the iron.... time begin it shrinks then again comes back to the initial state....!!

@ aerovishwa

ya facing problem in that.which is the best glue to paste cellopane on balsa

rubber glue..... brand name FEVIBOND..

before it properly sets... be sure to stretch it

@ aerovishwa

ok will do that

Hmm guy if u really care about looks then continue with cellophene.. Else u can try sunfilm.. The black screen used in cars.. Its got glue n shrinks just like monocote.. N. Its pretty cheet as well.. I remember some 5-10bucks a feet..

updated . . .!

maiden soon!

A quick question at a wrong place:
I bought a hawker hurricane balsa kit from RCB and it contains balsa pieces of more or less the same shape and a picture of the assembled plane looks more or less the same as yours. Am I to cover it with cellophane paper like you did? Any tips for building it? And the manual says it requires a .20 engine. Can I make it electric? Thanks

if u could... . replace all the coro.. with balsa...!!!

and stretch the covering...!!!

Quote from: hyd_quads on September 16, 2012, 01:55:55 PM
A quick question at a wrong place:
I bought a hawker hurricane balsa kit from RCB and it contains balsa pieces of more or less the same shape and a picture of the assembled plane looks more or less the same as yours. Am I to cover it with cellophane paper like you did? Any tips for building it? And the manual says it requires a .20 engine. Can I make it electric? Thanks

As vishwa said,replace coro instead of balsa.Infact i used coro on wing as spar and front wing surface area.
And u can make electric,if u like to preferred.

some changes need to required that's simple to.

scratch tail dragger

Installation of Rx,Battery and servos

some more

Quote from: satz flying on September 16, 2012, 03:30:59 PM
As vishwa said,replace coro instead of balsa.

Thanks for the advice but then all the kit I bought will go in waste...

Quote from: hyd_quads on September 18, 2012, 03:47:41 PM
Thanks for the advice but then all the kit I bought will go in waste...

why so?

The final master finished stage