Post by bearcat on Oct 13, 2010 18:48:33 GMT -5
Hey Dewds!
My Easy Star is retired due to a warped horizontal stab. But why let the rest of the plane go to waste?
Time for modifications.
We have a lot of small lakes here in Clovis. Perfect for a float plane or flying boat. (Float plane is a conventional plane with floats instead of wheels. Flying boat is a plane that has a boat hull fuselage).
1. Foam should float pretty well. So, I'm going to cut a boat hull shape on the bottom of the fuselage with a step just aft of the cg.
2. I'll affix stabilizing floats to the outer section of the wings.
3. Take off warped horizontal stabilizer and make a new one on top of the fin to get it out of the water. So it'll be a T-tail.
I'll probably just build it up with balsa, then drill down the fin from the top and glue a couple of dowel pieces in there. Then drill into the balsa built-up horiz-stab and glue onto the dowel ends.
4. Gotta soup it up. That brushed motor was barely enough to climb to altitude. So it's getting a stronger brushless with an 8" prop. Probably an 8x6.
5. I'm thinking about cutting some ailerons into it. But I'm also thinking about mixing them into flaps, so actually, maybe they'll be flaperons. Because if you get any kind of breeze at all, a tail-feather plane gets a mind of its own, and then you've gotta fish it out of the lake somehow.
Cool?
My Easy Star is retired due to a warped horizontal stab. But why let the rest of the plane go to waste?
Time for modifications.
We have a lot of small lakes here in Clovis. Perfect for a float plane or flying boat. (Float plane is a conventional plane with floats instead of wheels. Flying boat is a plane that has a boat hull fuselage).
1. Foam should float pretty well. So, I'm going to cut a boat hull shape on the bottom of the fuselage with a step just aft of the cg.
2. I'll affix stabilizing floats to the outer section of the wings.
3. Take off warped horizontal stabilizer and make a new one on top of the fin to get it out of the water. So it'll be a T-tail.
I'll probably just build it up with balsa, then drill down the fin from the top and glue a couple of dowel pieces in there. Then drill into the balsa built-up horiz-stab and glue onto the dowel ends.
4. Gotta soup it up. That brushed motor was barely enough to climb to altitude. So it's getting a stronger brushless with an 8" prop. Probably an 8x6.
5. I'm thinking about cutting some ailerons into it. But I'm also thinking about mixing them into flaps, so actually, maybe they'll be flaperons. Because if you get any kind of breeze at all, a tail-feather plane gets a mind of its own, and then you've gotta fish it out of the lake somehow.
Cool?
