Spitfire76's Build Log of Ben's PT17 Stearman

Spitfire76

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All 4 servo's installed with control linkages. As with most of my builds I have installed an Aura 5 Lite although it was difficult to find a suitable mounting point. In the end I glued in a piece of foam board in the rear cockpit above the servos.

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I still need to paint the rudder blue and add some red stripes to both wing and fuselage but will brush on rather than spraying.

I also need to secure the power pod somehow.
 

Mr NCT

VP of SPAM killing
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All 4 servo's installed with control linkages. As with most of my builds I have installed an Aura 5 Lite although it was difficult to find a suitable mounting point. In the end I glued in a piece of foam board in the rear cockpit above the servos.

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I still need to paint the rudder blue and add some red stripes to both wing and fuselage but will brush on rather than spraying.

I also need to secure the power pod somehow.
Looks great!
 

Spitfire76

Elite member
Secured power pod with a bbq stick (as usual).

Did a taxi test and it turns just fine without a tail wheel.

I did notice that the ESC is gets very hot. The issue is with the 3dprinted dummy radial engine installed no air is passing through the power pod.
 

Spitfire76

Elite member
I did perform a maiden this week but it felt a bit tail heavy. It looks like I'll need to add quite a bit of nose weight and one potential place would be inside the dummy radial engine as suggested by @Mr NCT in an earlier post in this thread.
 

Mr Man

Mr SPEED!
I did perform a maiden this week but it felt a bit tail heavy. It looks like I'll need to add quite a bit of nose weight and one potential place would be inside the dummy radial engine as suggested by @Mr NCT in an earlier post in this thread.
Yeah, I had to keep moving my CG forward as well. Is yours very STOL? (Just curious, because mine could be)