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Post by droneflyer200 on Jan 29, 2023 22:24:34 GMT
Yesterday I finished hooking up the elevons on The Flerken and mounted the camera in the nose I had to work out how big a hole to make in the nose so the camera will have an un-obstructed view. Now all that is left is to install the rest of the electronics and paint and finish it. Its too cold to paint so it will have to sit until spring unless I can get permission to use the wear house at work. So on with the show and I started to lay up the templates for the FT Tutor so I have officaly started construction of the TUTOR.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Jan 30, 2023 3:04:48 GMT
Yesterday I finished hooking up the elevons on The Flerken and mounted the camera in the nose I had to work out how big a hole to make in the nose so the camera will have an un-obstructed view. Now all that is left is to install the rest of the electronics and paint and finish it. Its too cold to paint so it will have to sit until spring unless I can get permission to use the wear house at work. So on with the show and I started to lay up the templates for the FT Tutor so I have officaly started construction of the TUTOR. View AttachmentView AttachmentUh oh, the toot. You know that may be a good candidate for my 75mm Ducted Fans.
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Post by droneflyer200 on Jan 30, 2023 9:25:24 GMT
Would sure look interesting I'm going with the 2814 1000KV motor I have and swing a 10x6 prop for lots of power and tork I'm ether going to build the standard wing and add flaps or go with the Turbo wing and mix in flaperons.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Jan 31, 2023 3:00:28 GMT
Would sure look interesting I'm going with the 2814 1000KV motor I have and swing a 10x6 prop for lots of power and tork I'm ether going to build the standard wing and add flaps or go with the Turbo wing and mix in flaperons. Look at you putting monster motors where they don't go just like I do. I actually think I don't own but 2 2217 motors, but dang, the 3536/2814s are a blast, and extra amounts of power.
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Post by droneflyer200 on Jan 31, 2023 6:33:44 GMT
Well I was really impressed with how well the FT spitfire flies with the 3635 1200KV motor and had this other bigger motor just sitting there so I decided to go with it and a little bigger prop you can't beat the vertical performance with a bigger motor. Being that I want to fly the toot off of water vertical performance and stol will be an advantage.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Feb 1, 2023 20:40:02 GMT
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Post by droneflyer200 on Feb 2, 2023 1:16:24 GMT
Wow that looks exactly like the one I have on my spit only it's blue. I just love the raw power these motors put out. I have three 2217s but I really like these 3635s have a bunch of the 2212s as well range in kv from 1000 to 1400 to 2200 I bought the 2814 to put on the spitfire but there was no easy way to adapt a spinner with the prop adapter so I ordered the 3635 and everything just bolted up. Now I need to invest in some 4s batteries the last time I was in the local RC shop I noticed they make spinners with built-in prop adapters I may look into these to put on the aerocommander.
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Post by droneflyer200 on Feb 4, 2023 19:32:56 GMT
Well I finished the Templates today I ran out of spray glue so I laid the Standard Wing out By hand on poster board and added flaps . I'm not sure if I'm going to fabricate a linkage or go with 4 9g servos in the wing the 4 servos would be the lazy way to do it. I one time entertained the idea of making two wings and I still can but for now I think I will just make one wing for the float plane version and concentrate building the floats and waterproofing them. I have been getting the urge to build an vintage type model and I uncovered some nice plans of a Fairchild PT-19 My very first powered model was a cox 049 powered PT-19 and I have fond memories'. So after I get the TooT finished its on to the Polaris seaplane and then The PT-19. let me know if anyone is interested in the P-19 and I will email the plans to the vault.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Feb 4, 2023 20:30:46 GMT
Well I finished the Templates today I ran out of spray glue so I laid the Standard Wing out By hand on poster board and added flaps . I'm not sure if I'm going to fabricate a linkage or go with 4 9g servos in the wing the 4 servos would be the lazy way to do it. I one time entertained the idea of making two wings and I still can but for now I think I will just make one wing for the float plane version and concentrate building the floats and waterproofing them. I have been getting the urge to build an vintage type model and I uncovered some nice plans of a Fairchild PT-19 My very first powered model was a cox 049 powered PT-19 and I have fond memories'. So after I get the TooT finished its on to the Polaris seaplane and then The PT-19. let me know if anyone is interested in the P-19 and I will email the plans to the vault. Looking forward to seeing the polaris get going. It is on my list! You are lucky to have water accessible to fly off of. I have no such luck, or I would have built a polaris already.
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Post by droneflyer200 on Feb 4, 2023 21:30:28 GMT
Water is something we have in abundance around these parts . I live in the Niagara peninsula with Lake Ontario on one side and Lake Erie on the other side we have tons of beaches and The club here has a water flying site at a local Quarry. We also have lots of smaller lakes and ponds in the area. My Brother in-law owns a cottage in Northern ontario on a lake north of Parry Sound east of Lake Huron and Gregorian Bay . He has been after me to come up for a vacation and bring a drone to video survey the property. The cottage is on a point with a floating dock just perfect for water flying just as long as no full size aircraft are operating in the area at the time.
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Post by droneflyer200 on Feb 5, 2023 16:41:07 GMT
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Post by Burkeomatic on Feb 5, 2023 22:35:29 GMT
I laid out the wing panels and cut them out this morning. I laid them out with mounting holes for 4 servos its the easiest way I can figure to setup the flaps. Im going to modify the spar as well with 4 mounting holes and just set the flaps up like ailerons only working the same way just not opposite. I actual got into building the wing it went together very quickly Im getting very use to the Flight Test building techniques didn't even have to review the building video. View Attachment View AttachmentView AttachmentWhat kind of radio do you have? I found out on my radiomaster, that there is a setting to extend the servo actuation over the course of a few seconds, so my flaps to go from 0-1 takes about 3 seconds, and from 1-2 takes 3 more. It not only looks and sounds cool, it keeps a violent pitch up moment from happening when you switch flaps.
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Post by droneflyer200 on Feb 6, 2023 0:55:36 GMT
Both My Radios are Flysky FS-I6X transmitters with a plethora of different Flysky receivers I checked and I don't have the feature you describe. I had planned on setting the Flaps up on channel six and assign it to one of the variable pots on the transmitter that way I can get a full range of flap angles from zero to full. Im glad Im choosing to go with the bigger motor as they state in the videos that to run on floats you need to run a C size motor.The 2814 is suppose to put out about 1.5 KG of thrust or 3lbs should be sufficient for my purposes I figure if I go with the dial on the transmitter not only can i choose the flap angle but I can also control how fast they are applied.
On another note I have been studying the Plans for the Fairchild PT-19 and I'm really liking what I see it is a balsa plane that IM going to adapt to Foam board poster board like the FT spit and P40 its a 44 inch wing span and is designed for ether a .10 glow engine or a 2217 950KV park 450 electric motor with a 2200mah 3S.
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Post by droneflyer200 on Feb 11, 2023 20:58:53 GMT
Well I made some nice progress on The FT TUTOR I managed to complete the Airframe this afternoon. I cut out the parts and glued together the fuselage and tail surfaces this plane went together extremely easy compared to The Flerken its very standard Flight Test construction techniques almost identical to the way the Simple Cub goes together. Im going to paint it yellow with Black and orange trim. I keep singing in my head this little song set to the melody of Yellow Submarine. "I like to fly my yellow Tutor Plane , yellow Tutor Plane, yellow Tutor plane. Sky of blue and lake of green with my yellow Tutor plane " Yea I know don't quit my Day job!
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Post by Burkeomatic on Feb 12, 2023 1:31:08 GMT
Well I made some nice progress on The FT TUTOR I managed to complete the Airframe this afternoon. I cut out the parts and glued together the fuselage and tail surfaces this plane went together extremely easy compared to The Flerken its very standard Flight Test construction techniques almost identical to the way the Simple Cub goes together. Im going to paint it yellow with Black and orange trim. I keep singing in my head this little song set to the melody of Yellow Submarine. "I like to fly my yellow Tutor Plane , yellow Tutor Plane, yellow Tutor plane. Sky of blue and lake of green with my yellow Tutor plane " Yea I know don't quit my Day job! View AttachmentView AttachmentYou could have a career writing for JJ Ice Fish. I might build a plane like that just to stick the ducted motor pods on.
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