hornet driver
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good to see on track. Primer seems a bit dark for something that will end up white. What's the weight/mass looking like? Dat's an awful long nose.
Most of the black will be sanded off. It's a primer filler and I'm using it to fill little blemishes and such. It will get a final coat of light gray later when I'm satisfied with the surface. As far as the weight goes, once the fuselage is cored out it should come in at about 10 oz. , Everything else is gonna be lite weight typical rocket stuff except for the wings. I'm still in the process of designing those but it looks like they will be foam core with ribs to get the lightest and strongest. I've also come up with another wing design with a little more span and a little less sweep. They still --look--the part and give me a little margin. The planned CG --in glide--is planned at the leading edge where it meets the fuselage. At that point the main wing should be lifting about 80% of the weight and leave the smaller canards to lift about 20% . Those are round numbers but in the range where I can tweek it.