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I've had a few sessions with the AXN, but finger trouble again ended with a few fairly heavy donks, which broke the wing saddle off.
After a while I repaired it and flew it, but on a very heavy nose and wing prang, I heard the sharp Cerack! So I thought Oh-Oh, sounds like the wing spar has just broken. Sure enough it had. Any way it was in for some major surgery and in looking for a replacement spar I used a 9mm garden cane which only needed one knuckle filing down to fit for a very temporary repair. BTW this was 10 grams lighter than the Stock fibreglass one! After these repairs I had another session and guess what – another heavy prang where the already repaired wing saddle broke off again! [See Pics]

After my repair job where the wing saddle had "detached" again, I was not confident about just using CA , as I did the first time. So I used my Sika PU, and was able to clamp the rear of the saddle and then also insert two kebab skewers from the cockpit rearwards and cut them off after inserting about 50mm.
Whilst doing the saddle repair, I noticed that the fuse tail boom just behind the motor pod was showing a possible future breakage point, so I heated up a metal rod and sort of drilled it in and made two holes from about 75mm behind the dodgy area forwards into the fuse, towards the cockpit. I then cut two pieces of 5mm carbon tube...Continue Reading

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I've now managed to maiden my AXN, not without its problems though..... Not only was it the maiden for the AXN, it was my first ever RC Flight !
My flying field is literally a field (as in a big paddock on my daughters farm [at the moment wheat stubble] (so no one could see me).
First made a couple of not so good launches, then found I didn’t have to worry too much (as long as I threw it slightly above horizontal) but it kept banking to the left and donk. So had to take it back to vehicle to do some running repairs (mainly on the nose)
I tried sorting out the banking, so my noob solution was to put on some aileron trim 'cos the ailerons were not sitting level with the TE .
Anyway, after a couple more launches it (and me) seemed to perform better.

Eventually, got it to a decent climbout and did a sort of circle then lost orientation and donk (cartwheel donk) The wings were only held in by the 19mm white tape(as Firepower suggested), but did suffer a bit, in the cartwheel)
Back to vehicle to do a some more running repairs and then managed a full circle and half decent landing, then an OK launch and another cartwheel donk which reshaped the AXN into an X plane [see pic]

I think I will have to glue in some hooks to hold the wings by rubber bands, and fix the spar covers better.
Its got a bit misshapen around the cockpit area - I've attached a...Continue Reading

My AXN Mods and Maiden Flight
Having read a few of the many of pages in the AXN thread, I thought I ought to do a few of the mods some people have carried out before I fly mine.
It did’n’t take too long to put the AXN together for flight. Although, I was quite surprised at the extra length of the Rudder and Elevator pushrods, which if not cut off, could cause some potential damage to the battery, but a number of tips in the fantastic thread informed me what to do. The first mod. I did was to the battery compartment cutting about 3mm of each side where the Lipo is to fit. Then, using a piece of plastic moulding (shaped like a "T" beam) that is used to join panelling inside older style caravan walls. I dremmeled some slots to take medium length velcro straps and then used the equivalent of Gorilla Glue to stick this to the floor of the cockpit where I’d previously taken out a bit of foam from the formers. Another mod., was to insert a thin carbon rod to strengthen the Elevator, glued in mainly with CA but with a dab of GG equivalent at the ends, see pic. The third mod. I did was, to buy a plastic nose spinner, cut the inside away and glue it on the nose of the CF (‘cos I knew I would be having a few dings). I also drilled holes in the canopy for better airflow to the ESC.


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For some strange reason when I started to think of getting into model planes, I seemed to gravitate to building, as I liked the challenge of constructing, fixing, glueing etc. I used to make furniture and things out of re-cycled timber, so have always been handy with tools, saws, machinery etc and all of the required accuracy using the rulers, squares and calipers which make life easier. Measure twice - cut once.

So I thought I would start with a balsa kit and somehow chose a Guillows B-24 Liberator. I've always liked the B-24 over the B-17 as it did a lot of its good work "in the shadows of the B-17", and its a 'cool' looking plane.

After I got started, I visited a couple of local RC Model Flying clubs and talked to the guys and they couldn't believe that I was actually going to build something which (A) wasn't designed to fly [mine was a Guillows showroom model] and (B) and wasnt an ARF or RTF so as to start flying straight away.

I thought I would eventually build a Trainer to learn to fly on.

Then later on when browsing the net and found RCG, I came up on a B-24 Build log by Smokin' Beaver , where he takes non-flying Guillows models and builds them to be able to fly (light weight that is). So I am now going to follow Phils B-24 build, no point in re-inventing the wheel is there?
Phil has been so helpful, answering heaps of my Noob questions. So I will post a few pics of some progress of my build. The Guillows B-24 kit has some reasonable balsa in it although as I 've progressed, I've noticed a varying quality in some of the parts. Its very easy to split the fuse formers where the notches are.
I will update and add more when I've made some more progress.

However, I have to learn to Fly!
So I intend to do some research, then I'll buy something to learn on maybe a Little Stick or a 'Pusher' type, ARF probably.
More Later

Thought I'd post some shots of my first "Try and Fly". With me being a newbie, it just had to be in the 'keep-it-simple-stupid' (KISS) category.

I chose a really basic model (Cuckoo EDF) which is similar to the Mini_Ultra Stick.
The instructions say Suggested weight is 120grams, but having fitted everything I've come out at 150grams.
The EDF(9gr) seems quite powerful, so I hope its got enough 'get-up-an-go' to get airborne OK.
I've used the recommended Orange 410Rx(2gr), one 800 or 1000mah lipo (45-48gr). Also using recommended HK 251 and 282 servos(3 x 2.7gr).

As you can see from the photos, there's not a lota room to fit all components.
Will maiden shortly.

Just thought I'd put a coupla pics of my Charger setup. First time I used it today to Parallel Charge 2 x 800mah plus 1 x 1000mah lipos. Everything worked as published and was done on Balance Slow and was finished in 40 minutes.