Begin' Acro Glider

Chris73 wrote: Do you want me to finish it for you Chris :lol: :lol:

:lol:

I have noticed that my Karma has dropped by 1 (I never had much to start with anyway ) and Grommet's has dropped to an eyewatering -55 :ohmy:

Well things have moved on at a great pace, not quite up to Pete's speed, but, well, I'm not Pete.

First and foremost I should mention my great appreciation to Jon, for coming up with a solution to my short elevator conundrum. He was eager to know today if I'd put his advice into practice:

Nice to get the rudder hinged and seated, the carbon pushrod and teflon tubing are all new to me but it seems to work well:

I added intermediate snake supports, but I'm not sure they were strictly necessary. I made the holes a snug fit, but it now occurs to me that maybe a slightly larger hole would have been better as the tubing is soft enough to be pinched in a small hole and add a little friction to the pushrod:

And for the lovers of jigs, I made and nose rings alignment /clamping jig... image1

Chris said - "and for the lowers of jigs " so guess you might like this rave from the grave -

Kevin you are getting as pernickety as David

I have no excuse, its been a long hard day, especially the two hours between 11-13:00 when I was at Cashmoor. W & V are nowhere near each other on the keyboard, so I have no idea what I was thinking.

Kevin you tricked me, I did spell "lovers" correctly... I'm confused, what's going on?

Almost ready to start covering, just a few tiding up jobs to do. I'm looking forward to building something else now :evil:

Looking good, Chris.

If anyone wanted this type of glider but without having to get covered in balsa dust, have a look at the Bikini, I think it's best to search for the plane yourself, you just need to Google 'Top Model Bikini' It looks like the Begin Acro, just as an ARTF with with a moulded fuselage: www.topmodel.fr/en/product-detail-21626-bikini-1-80m-arf

We'll it's done, Mike took the honours of the first flight, and I had a couple of flights after that. On my first flight I decided to test Mikes nerve, it's been a while since he's had to shouted at me, 'Power and Pull up!' It had nothing to do with the fact that I lost orientation :blush: still, there was about 5m to spare, so not that close to the ground :whistle:

Gliders are a different kind of flying, and I think this is going to teach me a lot both at Cashmoor and on the slopes.

There is some fun transmitter programming to be done now to set up the spoilerons and reflex, Chris73 seems particularly keen to know all the details on how I will do this on OpenTX :evil: I could probably get really boring if I put my mind to it

I'm glad this build is over, I've been keen to build something different for a while now... and there are three projects already lining up.

Well done Chris that's only taken a year I'm glad the maiden went well. Start off following the birds and when the birds start following you you've made it, unless they're hawks in which case you're toast.

Anyway,whatever, what's next; a scale warbird perhaps, an EDF or maybe a turbine?