Bush Hawk

[ratcheeroo]

Cleaning up a bit this morning and came across these plans from a while back, took a little bit to convert to foamboard from 3mm depron but it worked out pretty well. Anyway its a simple, clean, sturdy little build. With all the parts all cut and ready a person could probably build this in a night easily. 3 channel little backyard basher. 

[ratcheeroo]

Plans should be available for this when Burkeomatic adds them to the vault. just under 30 inch wingspan, 1806 motor. I am also thinking that it should come in around that 250g AUW

[ratcheeroo]

Just about to put the servos in and then the bottom plate and that is the end of the build. It's a beast!! Need to adjust the wing chord on the plans and I used skewers for the wing struts instead of strip ply or basswood but other than that everything fits good and goes together easy.

[ratcheeroo]

Build is done. I think I needed to do that to relax a bit, feeling a bit frustrated with getting the other build/releases to the finish line. Hit my target weight albeit without the battery, got some fancy stickers for it and a skin version that I will put out for the vault as well. Time to hook that receiver and ESC up and get everything going the right way and put a prop on it.

[ratcheeroo]

Wow. Thanks for the love on this one LMAO!! Taking a break for a bit.

[Burkeomatic]

Sept 8, 2022 23:18:42 GMT ratcheeroo said:

Wow. Thanks for the love on this one LMAO!! Taking a break for a bit.

I don't blame you. Sometimes the fun about EPP kit planes is they are there when you get tired of building with DTFB. But you can't be as creative within a short period of time and prototype like you can with DTFB. 

[ratcheeroo]

I have updated the plans for this, I think I have everything as I built it now.

[ratcheeroo]

Taking it out in the morning with a few others. Going with a 3s 1100 mah, seems to balance nice with that the way I have it. You could go anywhere from an 850 to a 1500 on this. Tail wheel swivels but not steerable. 6x4E prop.

[Mr NCT]

Video, video, video, por favor

[ratcheeroo]

Charging camera batteries now, got about 30 secs of last maiden day video , battery was dead.

Representing my homies LOL!!

[bwarz]

I really like how you tied the elevators together - very nice!  Can't wait to see the vid

[Burkeomatic]

A. The plans are in the vault, do I need to update them, or are the ones you sent the most recent.

B. I need to send you some money and get you to send me some stickers, so I can distribute them stateside.

C. Did you print those snazzy servo linkages or buy them?

D. I had another question to ask, buy I forgot what it was.

[ratcheeroo]

I sent a v1.2 a couple days ago so that will be the most recent. Just send me your address I'll send you a bunch of decals, I can send the decal files and we could put them up as a resource. Bought the linkages, I just cut away what isn't necessary. Pushrods I made with skewers that I attached pushrod wire on each end with CA and then heat shrink tubing over the joint. Did the same thing on the PC-21 but used those fibreglass rods from the dollar store kite instead of skewers. Really works good reducing flex for those times when you need a long pushrod.

[ratcheeroo]

Yeah thats pretty much my go to method for the elevator,split elevators, works really well and you get no issues with control horn placement. And if you got really creative you could work a control horn into that  piece of wire, I almost have it figured out but thats the direction I am going with on that

[barrett]

My start