JumpJet
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Since NARAM 56 is just around the corner I decided to stop looking for the perfect project to build as my concept scale model and proceed to construct an X-34 which is still a way cool looking design.
Im using typical model airplane construction on this model just like my Navaho. It took about two and half hours of work tonight to assemble the parts shown. This should be a really quick build and should be framed up hopefully in less then a week.
The rear three formers containing the hole for the 29mm motor mount tube are 1/8 light plywood. Everything else in the images is either 3/32 sheet balsa or 3/16 square balsa stock. In the bottom front of the model you will see a BT-5 body tube. This is where I will place any nose weight to balance the model with. Once the model is all covered up it would be hard to get weight up front but now I can simply poor some lead shot down the tube and back it up with a balsa plug. Still left on the fuselage are the application of the top rear sheeting which is 3/32 sheet balsa, the top center will get some 1/16 sheet balsa and the top front will be planked with 3/32 by 1/8 balsa sticks.
And yes this model will be Radio Controlled, since who doesnt like extra mission points.
John Boren
Im using typical model airplane construction on this model just like my Navaho. It took about two and half hours of work tonight to assemble the parts shown. This should be a really quick build and should be framed up hopefully in less then a week.
The rear three formers containing the hole for the 29mm motor mount tube are 1/8 light plywood. Everything else in the images is either 3/32 sheet balsa or 3/16 square balsa stock. In the bottom front of the model you will see a BT-5 body tube. This is where I will place any nose weight to balance the model with. Once the model is all covered up it would be hard to get weight up front but now I can simply poor some lead shot down the tube and back it up with a balsa plug. Still left on the fuselage are the application of the top rear sheeting which is 3/32 sheet balsa, the top center will get some 1/16 sheet balsa and the top front will be planked with 3/32 by 1/8 balsa sticks.
And yes this model will be Radio Controlled, since who doesnt like extra mission points.
John Boren