Stephen,

Yes, the 4th one down will work perfect! (flat carbon strip: 2.3 x 5.5 mm.) Sorry about that, my mistake. I'm fixing that right now.

I have been using 1/8 x 1/4 spruce. Attached is a picture of one of the old beat-up test planes that have these dimensions. You can see in the picture that all we are looking for is a support (wood or carbon) to run along side of the plane from nose to wing tip.

Dave

heres mine...since then ive added some stripes on the bottom and replaced the magnets with velcro.

im waiting on a new prop also, wasnt entirely happy with the glow prop i had and im expecting a little more go from the apc e.

Recieved mine from you today Dave. Great Plane!!! I already have it built, just need to get teh linkage finished. Should have it flying tomorrow. Very nice Product and super fast shipping.
For the leading edges I used CF round rod. i am going to fill the small gap and sand it So there is a rounded leading edge.

Does it have to up on Edge like that or can you lay it flat? I was thinking on flat as this give more glueing area.
Oh yeah BTW Dave I orderd one of those Walkera Motors from www.AWLhobbies.com (The 3200KV) for 24 bucks i thought i couldn`t lose. I will let everyone know how it goes.

Regards
Mal

Dave, your website says it took 4 months to develop this plane so it flew well? What kind of problems did you have developing it? Just wondering, it's interesting how you got it to fly so well, yet still retain it's unmistakable shape.

I Opend up my door today and found a Nice Big brown Box sitting there. HMMMM
I Thought "This is Pretty Light" Lets take a look who it is from. DAVE POWERS

OOHHH YEAH!!! I tell yeah that was QUICK. I orderd on Feb 2nd it is now the 7th. Thats Pretty darn good comming accross the boarder. Now I just have to get Some Carbon and wait for me Motor to come in...you know I am going to be buiding before that though.

Regards
Mal

Impresive!!!!!

Yeah I thought so!

Now to just get enough time to Build it. if i can Get it Built in the time it took to get here i will be doing great.......I have not even got the box open yet

Regards
Mal

Hey

Whats those other Pieces that are "Grey" In color? One Has two Indents that are circled the other Two are exactly the same shape. WHat are these For?

Regards
Mal

Nice job man.. you ever thought of building an RC SR-71 Blackbird?

Originally Posted by mixer911

Recieved mine from you today Dave. Great Plane!!! I already have it built, just need to get teh linkage finished. Should have it flying tomorrow. Very nice Product and super fast shipping.
For the leading edges I used CF round rod. i am going to fill the small gap and sand it So there is a rounded leading edge.

Sweet! Hey if you could send me a couple pics when you are done, I'd love to see it. Sounds very clean.

Dave

Originally Posted by kushal_22

Does it have to up on Edge like that or can you lay it flat? I was thinking on flat as this give more glueing area.
Oh yeah BTW Dave I orderd one of those Walkera Motors from www.AWLhobbies.com (The 3200KV) for 24 bucks i thought i couldn`t lose. I will let everyone know how it goes.

Regards
Mal

Mal,

That motor should treat you well. Thats going to be one fast cheap plane!

About the supports on the leading edge: Sounds to me if you put them that way it should work and look great. The only thing I can say is that my buddy Keith once put his carbon supports in at an angle. He sanded the leading edges so rather than being flat it was angeld down... if that makes sense.

What it ended up doing was creating "spoilers" in the front and along side of the plane. You know how Indy cars have that spoiler in the front angled down to keep the front end down? - same thing was going on here. Plane flew a litle weird cause of it

So thats as much as I know so far. As long as the leading edges are flat or rounded it will be fine. Just don't have them "angled" if that makes any sense.

Dave

PS: Those extra funny pieces of depron are for scrap. I put some extra in all the orders so guys can do repairs if - I mean when needed. Let me know if you need any extra depron for anything else. I got so much depron over here I am adding on a bedroom in the back made completely out of depron if the city doesn't catch me first!

Originally Posted by vax6335

Dave, your website says it took 4 months to develop this plane so it flew well? What kind of problems did you have developing it? Just wondering, it's interesting how you got it to fly so well, yet still retain it's unmistakable shape.

HA! 4 months of insanity! This Stealth was actually a silly side project. I have been working on a VTOL for about a year now that has been taking most of my free time.

The absolute KEY to getting this plane to fly (this is CLASSIFED info here so keep it quiet) was angling the elevons without angling the wing!

If you look at a scale Stealth the elevons are slanted so far back that the wind just goes right by them and they are very ineffective. This is why many people have had to "spread the wings out" on thier attempts to build RC 117s in hopes to get the wind to hit the elevons.

3 things on this F117 that must remain in place are:

1) Elevon proportions
2) Width of the plane
3) CG

Do whatever else you want to it (build a scale body, put a EDF in it, whatever) and is flys fine as long as you leave these 3 alone.

Here is a pic of 2 of the old test planes: The elevons here are evolving into what they are today. Also notice that we put the motor in the back at first...

Originally Posted by Valaron

Nice job man.. you ever thought of building an RC SR-71 Blackbird?

Yeah man, sure did! But my buddy BKuhuna beat me to it!!!

http://www.rcgroups.com/gallery/show...cat=500&page=1

His plane is just perfect! There is no way I could ever do anything better than that... but don't worry, I got some more original/never been done before planes on the way...

Dave

Originally Posted by Meatball

Dave, good job on the F-117A. Worked on the program for 30 years and am happy to see a model that looks like the real thing.
Randy

Meatball, I was a crewchief at TTR from 1/01 til the placce got mothballed in 10/02. Good to see another "Nighthawk-er" around.