Moth Minor Swappable - design, build, and review log
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I'm glad you don't mind the input. I wouldn't want you to have to design by committee and I trust your decisions. I'd like to try my hand at my own design sometime soon. I'm in an apartment and I'm cautious about just how much mess my wife will tolerate.Keep up the good work!
I personally don't care if you make the wings removable or not. There are enough removable wing designs in the standard FT library to make the modifications on my own. After breaking the wings mounts out of my Spitfire a couple of times, I've gotten pretty comfortable just gluing stuff in where it looks right.
I definitely don't mind the input! And because of your catch I also noticed that the wings were not scaled properly. I had them at 48in to a 30in fuse while the nnBucker had 53in wingspan and 31in fuse. The Moth Minor and Bucker were very close in size so I knew something was off.
I have made the proper adjustments and now I'm sitting at 52.5 and 30, which is much closer to scale proportions.
Hi again
I found an idea for the nose that should work good. This is for a coroplast plane built by "Whiskers" on RcGroups, but I'm sure something similar could be done maybe with some foam going into the fuselage and skewers through from the sides.
I never notice the elastics holding on the wings of my Spit in the air, but I would notice a DH plane not having a DH nose, Those of us who are not overly worried about moving avionics between planes could just glue something like this to the front of the power pod.
I don't have all that much time for building and still have the Mustang to finish, so I'll be waiting for your maiden before I start cutting foam. I know allready that this will be one sweet flying machine.
Owen
Owen that's a great find. I have an idea to try with poster board but this is something else I'll play around with.
Yeah. It's very basic. I took the idea of how the spit nose poster board is and just bent it a little more to get the proper angle and then cleaned up the edges so it had the right shape.
It takes about 1 minute to make and I thought it had a good look over the standard 'speed' canopy.
JohnRambozo
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That is a fortunate discovery early in the design phase. I'm glad I could help.
I'm still waiting on my servos, so I rebuilt my spitfire wing. The dihedral was way too much after my last repair job. I'm going to post some details of the rebuild to show the hot glue soaked spar I made. Its practically indestructible.
Beta 1 plans are nearly done. Should be ready by this evening. The beta 1 plans should be significantly better than the nnBucker beta 1 plans. Even though I've not been able to re use any of the work, I definitely learned from the experience and have made the 'right' decisions the first time with the Moth Minor.
nagromnewo
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Great news! The eyes of (a small part of) the world are on you.
Owen
Owen
JohnRambozo
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JohnRambozo
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It looks good already! Nice shape on the h.stab/elevator and those ailerons mean business.
JohnRambozo
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Those are some interesting changes you had to make. This is becoming an intermediate / advanced build with those tapered spars. Its fun to see the problem-solving in action. The wing looks great.
nagromnewo
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