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I'm building a sort-of-upscale of the Mega Baron. I've had some excellent flights with my 20" R/C conversion. This one is 50" wingspan and has a 29mm mount.
The wings are from a [foam sport-scale model of Albatros D.III] My original plan is to buy two horizontal stabilizers from the same model to use as vertical fins, but they are out of stock. A builder on RCGroups has photos of the parts as they come from the factory: [top], [bottom].
The booster section is a Big Daddy/Leviathan nosecone and BT.
I'm still working out the dimensions and materials for vertical stabilizers and canards. Foam board strips in the photos are only mockups. The real things have to carry the entire thrust of the motor against drag of the wings. I want to mount them TTW through Estes' 1/8" slots. One idea is to use 1/8" plywood through the slots, 3/8" balsa for canards, and cut 1/8" slot, perhaps an inch wide, into the mating edge on canard.
Ari.
The wings are from a [foam sport-scale model of Albatros D.III] My original plan is to buy two horizontal stabilizers from the same model to use as vertical fins, but they are out of stock. A builder on RCGroups has photos of the parts as they come from the factory: [top], [bottom].
The booster section is a Big Daddy/Leviathan nosecone and BT.
I'm still working out the dimensions and materials for vertical stabilizers and canards. Foam board strips in the photos are only mockups. The real things have to carry the entire thrust of the motor against drag of the wings. I want to mount them TTW through Estes' 1/8" slots. One idea is to use 1/8" plywood through the slots, 3/8" balsa for canards, and cut 1/8" slot, perhaps an inch wide, into the mating edge on canard.
Ari.