Nexa Twin Otter Rebuild

Virtually come to a standstill. Waiting on 2.2 mm self tapping screws, Lipos from Motion RC in transit. However, I had a go at fixing the issue with the starboard nacelle that had been hacked too short. I tried some strips of clear plastic from a juice bottle but not really up to the job. Then I had a eureka moment. Somewhere put away in a safe place should be some 0.5m PETG clear plastic bought for vacuum forming. Eventually found it and cut two strips at 15mm wide to lay on the inside of the top and bottom nacelle covers. I used UHU-POR to stick them on, 1, stays fairly flexible. 2. Sticks well most to most things. 3. If I cock up I can use a scalpel to slice the strips off again. As it happens all went well. Sprayed the top nacelle with gloss paint. Bottom half I ironed on a bit of Golden Yellow covering for now. Starboard wing is nearly finished other than repainting the red wing tips.

On the fuselage I have been adding a couple of extra items, a GPS module, height, ground speed, position and a micro Sbus receiver (about the size of 10p piece) as a slave RX.

Recovering a Twin Otter. If things go wrong there is always someone who can help. They may want paying though...

Got a fair bit done just before our holiday and the new lipos (bought specially for CG) arrived from Motion RC on the morning of out flight, so just in time. 2 x 3600 35C 4 cells. 650gms. This week I reduced the height of the landing gear, which was far too high for a
Twin Otter. Ask me why and I will explain. I do have few little jobs to do but very minor but niggle me. :lol: When I went to Canada a few years back to see my sister but was unable to spend much time at the harbour where I was amazed at the number of float planes Harbour Air had (3 mins into video). :whistle: I found this video below that says it all. At 7 mins watch the steep landing and reverse thrust.

I'm assuming thats Vancouver - I recognise Stanley park in the background and Whisper mountain to the north. We visited in 1979 and i remember being fascinated by the mass seaplane activity but nowhere near as busy then. Our fabulous trip thru the rockies was never surpassed

Twin Otter was kindly maidened by Jon on Saturday. Just a tad nose heavy and take out some mix of flap to elevator.

Vancouver Harbour flight in either a Twin Otter or Beaver to Whistler and then to the Glacier. During June to September able to land on lake (not frozen) to stand on the edge of the Glacier. "Bucket List" trip without doubt.

harbourair.com/tours/alpine-lakes-glaciers/