Flite Fest 2017: Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship

[BridgeInspector]

Took today off from work. Progress is speeding up.



Turtle deck, cowl mods, box wheel pants(want foam layers and shaped layer) and a bit of paint.

All control surfaces are functioning. Need to watt test set up too.

 

[BridgeInspector]

A few details to button up and should be ready to maiden tomorrow.

 

[willsonman]

Fantastic!

 

[SP0NZ]

Fan flippin tastic!

 

[BridgeInspector]

IT FLIES!!!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOXSMHhhA1n/?taken-by=tn_bridge




The pilot did a bad job of landing it though. Details later, but it will be fixable.

 

[willsonman]

Does look a bit tail heavy, which can also cause a bit of rise during throttle up. If you need down trim during a power-off glide yeah, tail heavy.

 

[BridgeInspector]

Update

Updated build information in post 2.

 

[BridgeInspector]

Update:

Maiden flight video from hatcam. I sounded a bit excited in the video.

 

[jpot1]

Love the excitement!

 

[Mid7night]

Awesome! I love the look of it just taxiing around, before even getting in the air. Nicely done!

 

[BridgeInspector]

Tail gear

A few pics of the steerable tail wheel. I used a bit of wire and two servo control horns. The weight rests on the first control horn that is glued into a slot and is near the internal bamboo skewers for strength. Make sure the bend is abrupt enough to not go all the way through. This should help keep any direct force from ripping the rudder off the vertical stabilizer. It seemed to worked really well.

 

[Aviator08]

Wonderful !! Nice flight !

 

[SlingShot]

Great effort BridgeInspector! I really like this thing.

The big cowl that looks like it belongs, nice big plane presence in the sky.....I'd be proud to fly one.

Irrespective of its speed performance, I think you have the makings of a VERY cool sport plane.

 

[BridgeInspector]

Got some paint on the Mystery Ship.



Was able to paint on this 58 degree winter day. I ran out of red, so only did the top. Still need to make templates or tape for black parts. The cowl is getting some spackle before painting it gloss black.

 

[BridgeInspector]

Some cowl work.



Next is the fuselage black lines and number. Still need some CAD time to get templates made.

 

[ranger351]

Looking really good! Great build will definitely be going on my build list!

 

[BridgeInspector]

58 days until official start of FFE17! I need to get the rest of the paint on this guy!

 

[BridgeInspector]

Finally got a chance to start adding some detail paint. Then it started to rain so I didn't get to finish on this day.


(cowling removed)

 

[DamoRC]

Nice to see you back working on this! I was so close to building one for FFW, but I was going to struggle to get it into the prius with all of the other stuff I had. Must put it back on the list.

DamoRC

 

[BridgeInspector]

Nice to see you back working on this! I was so close to building one for FFW, but I was going to struggle to get it into the prius with all of the other stuff I had. Must put it back on the list.

DamoRC

Awesome.

I can also put the files on Google Drive for the templates I used to paint the black areas. They are rough, basically just curvy lines, but seemed to work.