Provost

I believe Frank broke a tap, and was having trouble removing end from unit. Not an easy job.

Stuart

I afraid tha is true, the last hole to be tapped some new words have been said, I have worked out how to salvage the leg but the problem this week has been that I have not been well, the lump under my right arm pit as grown to twice the size and will not allow me to use it to turn handles on the lathe or milling machine or handle tools, plus i cant stand for very long. The docs have increased the pain killers and are thinking of giving me another shoot of the protons but I hope to fix it this weekend. I think soon I will be used for night flying, sorry for the delay Pete :sick:

No worries Frank, look after yourself and keep out of the sun
finished the covering and sealed all the edges with some thinned dope.The only jobs left to do are grey prime the airframe, epoxy the hinges and connect up the servos and my job is done.

Elevators and rudder hinged and glued and connected up to servos. fuselage and wing primed and that's me nearly done :woohoo:

Looking really nice Pete. You have not got a lot of space to work in by the look of it and an even bigger well done on scratch building large scale stuff in a restricted air space..

Did you build in the back of a chair on the front end?

Looks great Pete

Who is painting it, or is the plan to fly it first?

my job is done on the provost and mighty fine she looks.I will upload pics later this week when I get time to put her together.
Frank and I have decided to leave the airframe in primer for now so he can work his magic on the cowl and canopy as the airframe will pick up some hanger rash while it gets moved around his workshop. I have arranged to meet up with Frank next Sunday at cashmoor to hand over the provost .
I hope Frank decides to make the canopy first so it will make the provost ready for flight and Jon T on test flight duties and the awesome sound of the saito radial.
Once the flight testing have been done I will have the provost back to apply the scale detailing and final paint finish.

Pete

DaveBright wrote: Did you build in the back of a chair on the front end?

Dave,the chair is needed for nose weight

I was hoping to rig the provost today and take some final picture's but it's been too windy and did not want to damage her so i will do my final post write up and hopefully pic's tomorrow.
I thought it might be good to mention about radio set up for those members who are thinking about moving up in scale.On the provost it has 7 high voltage digital servos on the surfaces and standard on throttle.
To supply the high current draw to the servo's a standard RX is not suitable so we have to use either a powerbox or a powersafe Rx.In the provost i have gone for a 9 channel Spectrum unit as it can distribute a constant voltage to the servo's,uses 2 x2s life 2300 mah batts and a soft switch which fails to on.I have used 3 satts and one of which is in the tail so we should have good range in any position.
After spending 100's of hours building the provost and Frank's large investment this is a pretty bullet proof set up .All servos use alloy horns with 3mm ball links and push rods are 3mm stud bar stiffened up with a carbon sleeve.

Pete