Well look at this its been over 10 months since there has been any action here. And look the last post was about the same plane I am about to play around with for my winter wing... THE GOBLIN!!
I remember how much fun I had with the last one so I decided to build another. This time it is upscaled to just 110% to handle the 2212 1400 on an 8" prop...
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Went with a similar color scheme to the last one, except this is all white on the bottom with a black stripe on the right wing. The last one was water proofed with packing tape, which made for a slippery plane to hand launch in the winter, so this is painted. Paint is what has sealed it as well so there is no polyurethane. The nose is covered from the bottom around the front and over the top in poster board for durability with belly landings in the farmers fiels of snow. Then once painted orange it is covered in packing tape for skid and scratch protection.
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I moved the Vstabs out to just inside the elevons. This eliminates that annoying little section that always gets bent trying to instal the vstabs plus move them out to clear a perfectly good APC 8x45 MR prop. For the most part because I am going for durability over the winter i do have all of the bottom of the airframe taped off, and pretty much sealed up against the elements. Other then the nose coming off the only other spot where moisture could get in would be the wing tips and the hole where the motor wires tuck into the fuse. Both of which can easily be remedied.
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The battery bay area is pretty clean, not much going on for the electronics, no FC or FPV. The receiver is a FlySky basic 6ch no telemetry kinda unit. I haven't tried it yet but fingers crossed. The Velcro straps are doubled up depending on the battery I am using, with a 2200 3s it still needed a little nose weight so 28g's of AA batteries glued to the front are helping to balance. Once this was done though i looked into the nose and now I figure i could cut the whole front panel off and let the battery hang into the nose further. I will try it this way and see what happens, if i need to change it i will. I figure this would be the weight of a camera anyway.
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The underside is where the battery parks, you can see what I was sayin earlier about removing the front panel, but that's a story for later. The straps will hold up to a 2200 4s so there should be some fast runs on this little guy in the near future.
Stay tuned for the maiden...