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Tail feathers
-Reinforce coroplast stab with either 4-5 bamboo skewers or 1-2
fiberglass rods
-Reinforce coroplast vertical fin with 1-2 bamboo skewers
-You can use Gorilla glue or epoxy
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-Apply epoxy to the fuselage tail slot's surfaces
-Slide stab and vertical fin into the tail slots
-Let it dry completely
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-Cut out the shape you want for the engine in front of the firewall
-Recommended engine position is engine-head up
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Wing construction
-Lay bottom wing core cover on the flat surface
-Cover it with a plastic food wrap
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-Lay the wing core top side up in the wing core cover
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-Put some weight as shown on the picture to keep wing
core from sliding |
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-Apply epoxy on the wing core's area of each wing cores where in
the middle the going to be glued together
-Put the wing cores together so that they were pressed together
for the time of epoxy curing
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-Make sure that both wing cores are aligned in respect
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-Apply epoxy in the slots for the top and bottom fiberglass rods,
first only on the ether left or right wing core
-Tape both top and bottom fiberglass rods where they are glued
-You can use bi-di tape (recommended) or any other one
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-Put the side of the wing to which you have applied epoxy into
the wing cores covers top side of the wing up
-Apply heavy object(s) on top as shown on the picture and leave
it to cure
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-When it cured, apply epoxy to the other side |
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-Repeat the process like with the other side |
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-Apply epoxy to the leading edge and the back slots of either left
or right side of the wing first only
-Insert the fiberglass rods that left, into the slots
-Tape the leading edge and the back sides with some tape
which later you will remove
-Put several rubber bands and insert something hard between rubber
bands and the rods
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-Repeat the process on the other side |
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Servo(s) and push rods installation
-You can use two servos system or one servo system like shown on
the image
-For one servo system use template for drawing the groove for the
flexible push rods
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-Place a servo on the wing so that control horn of the servo is
on the line of push rods' grooves and position right above the line
of the wing joining line
-Use the servo contour as a template to outline the servo
-Use a very sharp thin-bladed knife to cut foam vertically along
the outline to the depth of the servo just on inside of the shape,
so that when you will install the servo, it would hold tit in the
wing
-Carve the shape of the servo out deep enough so that upper wall
would be 1/8 of an inch lower than the surface of the wing
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-Take three piece of the half-inch directional tape
-Tape the end of one tape piece a half of an inch away from one
end of the sleeve
-Tape the second piece same direction and the way as the first
one at the end of the sleeve
-Tape the third piece same way as the others but in opposite direction
at the middle of the push rod sleeve
-Repeat the process with the other push rod sleeve
-Take the push rods sleeves and slide them on each push rod
-Place the push rods' sleeves into the grooves
-Tape those tape peses to the wing surface with some tension
-Apply bi-di tape on top of the push rods
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