Yak 54

Zim11911

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So I was looking around the forum and did not see any plans or attempts at making a yak 54. So I think I will give it a go this will be my first foam board scratch build on here. I am having a devil of a time finding balsa plans for one as well so if anyone has any please feel free to share otherwise I plan to grab foam board to start patterning and prototyping. I am not up to speed with the making of plans with anything more than cad so I will prototype the draw plans if anyone is interested. Let's hope this bird can 3d when it is all said and done.
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Ligbaer

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So I was looking around the forum and did not see any plans or attempts at making a yak 54. So I think I will give it a go this will be my first foam board scratch build on here. I am having a devil of a time finding balsa plans for one as well so if anyone has any please feel free to share otherwise I plan to grab foam board to start patterning and prototyping. I am not up to speed with the making of plans with anything more than cad so I will prototype the draw plans if anyone is interested. Let's hope this bird can 3d when it is all said and done.
full fuse or profile?
 

Baron VonHelton

Elite member
So I was looking around the forum and did not see any plans or attempts at making a yak 54. So I think I will give it a go this will be my first foam board scratch build on here. I am having a devil of a time finding balsa plans for one as well so if anyone has any please feel free to share otherwise I plan to grab foam board to start patterning and prototyping. I am not up to speed with the making of plans with anything more than cad so I will prototype the draw plans if anyone is interested. Let's hope this bird can 3d when it is all said and done.

2-D or 3-d, my little chickadee?

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Zim11911

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So tonight I dimensioned the basic plans and started laying out the front half of the fuselage. I am debating on whether I want to make it a removable wing or a permanently fixed wing.
 

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Musdang

Not Quite Legendary
I think I want to do something like this instead of using something like the rc groups yak. What % scale do y’all think a f pack motor and a 2s 800 would work?
 

Zim11911

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it’ll be about the same size as the swappables so I think it should need a C power pack for power I’m thinking a 1500 mA 4 cell Similar to the FT Edge 540. With a yak having a 27 foot wingspan my math shows it at a 1/8 scale
 

Zim11911

Member
todays Progress is cutting out a large portion of what will be needed for the interior structure of the fuselage. Trying a new style of spline with three laminated together with the vertical stabilizer separate to slide in after the other pieces have been glued up.
 

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Musdang

Not Quite Legendary
todays Progress is cutting out a large portion of what will be needed for the interior structure of the fuselage. Trying a new style of spline with three laminated together with the vertical stabilizer separate to slide in after the other pieces have been glued up.
Awesome! You have to many batteries/chargers though. You must use power tools ALOT!
 

Zim11911

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I was able to make a lot of progress today I assembled the bulk of the fuselage. I was able to test out the three-piece spline for the tail section it seems to have worked well. I was able to get the top hatch assembled and magnets Imbedded. I was able to cut out the mid wing skin and start assembly.
 

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