Thanks to Sanjay for inspiration on building coro planes...

Our new project that started last year was finally completed this month. 

Now just good weather and some free time should see this beauty "ELECTROWATT" in the air.

Electrowatt by Allan and Deepak
Electric Acro Wot in 5mm Coro Fuselage.
Balsa ribs covered with Depron on wings
All up weight (inc 410grams 4cell 14.8v 4000mah lipo) ; 2.4kg
Span 1.48m
Root Chord 0.305m
Tip Chord 0.245m
Mean Chord 0.275m
Wing Area 0.407 sq m (4.38 sq ft)
Length 1.2m

At 4.96lb flying weight that's about 18.1oz/sq ft
Electronics; 4 x 17g MG Servos Emax
80 Amp Emax ESC ; Prop Drive 4238 Motor from Hobbyking
Lipo; 4cell 14.8v 4000mah Rhino or Zippy Compact (aprox 410g incl in AUW)
Prop; 14x7
Drawing 45 Amp 580watts.

Will upload some images of my original Acro Wot by Chriss Foss which is a 61 size IC aerobatic plane weighing around 3Kg and our 2.4Kg inc lipos Electric ELECTROWATT inspired and created from that Acro Wot.

Beautiful 

All thanks to you Sanj... For getting me into Coro scratch/ plans building.

As Electrowatt is completed, next project has started... Cherokee; my best flying IC plane with an Irvine 61. Have had it for about 12-15 years, it is a dream to fly.

However has not seen the skies for over 18 months. We didnt get much of a summer this year too. When we did get some good weather, I could not go to the field as our planning council license permits IC on weekdays only.

Will be starting a new post on that..

Really beautiful. Here's wishing you Happy Flying, Safe Landings 

Thank you Sanjay. 

Hello Sir's,
Sanjay, Deepak, Allan.

This is a very good built .... but it nowhere looks like coro...!!!!

how is that gloss finish and no coro flutes seen on edges (what have you done there ).

Are there any ply former's in wings and fuse ?

regds
Saurabh

Hi Saurabh,
It's been covered with packaging tape hence one cannot tell it's Corro. Decals are all Solar film. Formers in ply and balsa.

This is what my original Acro-Wot by Chris Foss looked like... 61 sized IC. Highly aerobatic and very fast plane. Had it for over 15 years.

Super! Great work sir

Thanks Girish... Will be even better if it flies well...

Very beautiful build sir

Thanks Manoj...

Finally managed to test it out yesterday. It was a cloudy day with slight breeze. Our site's planning license allows max 70db on Sundays.
Tested it on 14 x7 prop and 4 cell and the reading was 74db... Flying the Electro was out of window till some one suggested how about trying with 13x8 prop.. Did that same thing.

However was delighted to get readings around 69db on 3 cell.
Model balanced with a heavier 4 cell so had to add extra 100 grams noseweight to compensate for the weight difference.


So we did have a flight...

This is how it flew;



Just needs a few tweaks and will fly again very soon...  

Chuffed with the outcome.  

Congratulations! 

Always a great feeling, successful maiden on a scratch build

True Sanj. It was a big relief to see it actually doing the job it was made for.  

Some more images of the build log.

And some more