Some time back (2years), i had made a variataion of this jet and it was a good flier. Since i saw this with a partialy full fuse design ( to conceal the gear), i thought i will try one.
here are the build photos. pl see the remarks in the photos.

Need another 6 to 7 hours to complete it.

Plan and build guide here.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1113351&highlight=draken

More photos

Did some painting (Taping!) job and also made the compartment for the Battery and the gear. Now it is fully reday for the maiden.
Gear is
2212-06, 6x4 prop, wot=23 amps. this is little too much, will reduce the prop later.
30A esc
9gram x 2 servos
Assan rcvr
1650 Dualsky, 3 cell.

toooooooo.. windy in bangalore today.

pl see the remarks in the photos..

some photos

some more photos. pl see the remarks in the photos

sir can u mail me the plans for this palne

 for the plan pl follow the link in the first post

Mr.Ashta, the plane looks AWESOME! :bow:It really does look like the real one.And also,do the americans really operate these even now?But still,great work by you sir.I am slowly inching towards scratch building rather than buying a plane.

Correction please its a SAAB's Draken belongs to Sweeden operated someware  1970's onwards,
latest is Saab Gripen recently saw in HAL ,doing Trials!(before a month).



and i think asta ji will definetly try this one (gripen)some day!

here is the maiden flight.

Its an amazing plane Ashta sir!! would love to make EDF version some time!! Nice flight!!

Great to see you had a company today! I would soon join you to Hoskote, once my current deliverable is done!

Today morning I saw three fighters taking off from HAL Airport , one after another's tails.... amazing... They were pretty much like Grippen/Draken - small and swift...

Cheers!

 

Hi

What is the material used in the build.

Ashta Sir,
I closely examined the first photos and noticed that the cuts in the foam are pretty neat, esp the notches/tabs and the semi circular cut. What do you use  to cut the foam ?

the stars were like the american ones so i thought that it might be american,but still thanks for the clarification praveen.did we buy the gripens?(sorry to hijack this Mr.Ashta)

what do you think ! its like if you like the plane go to LHS and make a payment and take it to home !this is with u
with government!
its not like that ,it will take long long long long long n long time, here is the government rules !
First they will issue RFP!(Request for proposal) where government says hey i need this model than bunch of model sellers will give a proposal n technical details to government n govt will call for trials for sellers with their planes this is called NCNC trials(No cost no commitment) after the trials which ever plane qualifies they mark that sellers! after all these circus govt than raises commericial tender than which seller gives a lowest bid or quote wins the tender n supplies his product! this on the screen there is still hell lot of drama behind the screen  
Normal projects which im working are like taking more than 2 yrs (costing from 300 -500 crores) than think of big fighters n multi million project!
to your information all the fighters participated in trials are qualified ,recently trials got over let us see in future which one IAF procures!
forgot to mention nice flying asta ji   

Thanks,Gandhar,Praveen, Ujjwaana and VC.

I had forgotton to secure the motor mount properly. I notice it while fluing at Jakkur yday. after fixing it it really flew well.

thanks to all of you
ashta

Here is a video thru my hatcam today.
rather close flying.
although the landing could have been better.

thanks for watching


ashta

Is there a big projection at the bottom ?  Saw a big vertical fin sticking out of the belly but it was not in the earlier pictures

Quote from: anwar on July 08, 2010, 04:20:28 PM
Is there a big projection at the bottom ?

did not quite get what you mean!! There is no projection as such.

Aah, realized that it had landed on the side.  I must be getting old, since I had to watch it with "stop/slow motion" to see the final orientation.  For a moment I thought it was made to look like the VFO  model from Electrifly

nice plane sir
sir can you please tell which material you have used?? and also the adhesive??

rgds
YD

yes anwar it was a bad landing!!

Quote from: anwar on July 08, 2010, 10:11:15 PM
Aah, realized that it had landed on the side.  I must be getting old, since I had to watch it with "stop/slow motion" to see the final orientation.  For a moment I thought it was made to look like the VFO  model from Electrifly

Thanks YD.
the material is 5mm depron+crbon reinforcement+packing tape. used hot melt glue

Quote from: hangingtough on July 03, 2010, 04:28:40 PM
Hi

What is the material used in the build.