MaxQ
Tripoli 2747
Spent an evening looking at the LES tower and then proceeded to do a couple of things.
Cut the tower body tube to length and fiberglassed that with two layers of what I had on hand.
Trial fitted a mylar LES skirt and shroud for the nose cone.
The skirt was fairly easy, the online shroud template calculator actually gave a pretty good result for that .
After getting a good trial fit I unfolded it, took a compass and marked a .10 inch radius inset and set a balsa bulkhead/cross grained doubler inside that.
That will be the floor of the LES skirt .
After fiberglass reinforcement - I'll drill some holes for the LES tower struts.
The nose cone took a lot of trial and error cutting and re-cutting but eventually I got a mylar NC shroud that I could use - so I inserted a wood dowel inside and shaped the NC tip.
Some filler and sanding...think I can fiberglass both of these parts this week end.
The red thing near the LES -NC is a tube coupler, which got stuck in the BT and seems to want to stay there.
I'll probably have to reverse the BT , stick that end in the skirt.
I want to be able to load lead ballast in this LES so the NC won't be getting attached anytime soon.
Cut the tower body tube to length and fiberglassed that with two layers of what I had on hand.
Trial fitted a mylar LES skirt and shroud for the nose cone.
The skirt was fairly easy, the online shroud template calculator actually gave a pretty good result for that .
After getting a good trial fit I unfolded it, took a compass and marked a .10 inch radius inset and set a balsa bulkhead/cross grained doubler inside that.
That will be the floor of the LES skirt .
After fiberglass reinforcement - I'll drill some holes for the LES tower struts.
The nose cone took a lot of trial and error cutting and re-cutting but eventually I got a mylar NC shroud that I could use - so I inserted a wood dowel inside and shaped the NC tip.
Some filler and sanding...think I can fiberglass both of these parts this week end.
The red thing near the LES -NC is a tube coupler, which got stuck in the BT and seems to want to stay there.
I'll probably have to reverse the BT , stick that end in the skirt.
I want to be able to load lead ballast in this LES so the NC won't be getting attached anytime soon.
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