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Thanks, all. Been beavering away in the man cave. Stabilizer and vertical tail are done. Both fuselage sides completed and will join them tomorrow.
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So, Pete, your first post says this one will be 3 channel. Will you be cutting in an elevator, same as the rudder? Or did you decide to go rudder-throttle? I'm considering doing a second RDBO 2017 build this way, rudder and throttle only, with my kit-version 33" Korda Wakefield.
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Fuselage sides joined. I beefed up the structure a bit, using a pair of balsa formers to get things squared up. Also added 1/16 inch sheet balsa doublers in the nose. Cross pieces are installed and gussets added for the wing mount.
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At last, I've reached the strap-it-together stage. Undecided on the motor, but looking at a 12mm geared unit with 7:1 reduction drive. |
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I have used flying rudders quite a bit. The hinge line is typically at about 33% of the chordline. Mine are a little aft of your proposed line. What helps is a solid pull-pull system using Kevlar or other non stretch line. I will post some pics later when I dig one of them out. Mel D. |
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I was lucky to pick this Duplex Cabin up at the Perry GA Swap Meet several years ago. It was built as a free flight and I wanted to keep the vintage flavor. So I made BOTH the rudder and the horizontal stabilizer all moving. The rudder pivots on a piece of carbon fiber rod mounted under the stab. It goes up through a slot in the stab into aluminum tubing mounted in the rudder. If you look hard at the rudder side view, you can see the shadow of the tubing in the rudder and the slot in the stab. The lower stab side view shows the stab pivot horn (again if you look hard.). The stab used a standard pushrod. You can see the rudder pull pull horn made from AL tubing with a toothpick inserted in each side. I learned this from my good friend Rae Fritz.
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BTW, your structure is gorgeous!! |
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Thanks, Mel. Nice conversion of the Duplex Cabin.
I'll definitely be using a geared power system for the Victory. A small, high rpm prop just wouldn't look right on this model. |
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Best I can tell this is pretty close to the Hacker: https://hobbyking.com/en_us/c2028-mi...___store=en_us |
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