Wow, heavy... how much nose weight?
Will this have a removable cone or a smooth joint?
I've done both ss1 and ss2I am surprised @burkefj hasn’t don’t a glider version of this yet (more likely he hasn’t and i just missed it!)
Most people would have settled for laying the tube on top of the flat panel. Once again, your craftsmanship is most impressive.Gluing the Base Fin
Cut the body tube and started gluing the base fin.
They are spaced out far enough that it should not be an issue.Most people would have settled for laying the tube on top of the flat panel. Once again, your craftsmanship is most impressive.
Rear eject is clearly a good idea, to keep those long cantilever fins from hitting the ground first. But it seems like those same fins present a potential hazard to rear ejection, with the likelihood of the 'chute snagging on them. Do you have a plan for that?
That statue is pretty handy!Wing Glue Fillets
I went ahead and attached all 4 fins at the root. That way I can do all the fillets, wings and fins, at one time.
Wing Glue Fillets
I went ahead and attached all 4 fins at the root. That way I can do all the fillets, wings and fins, at one time.
Lakeroadster works in mysterious ways.
It looks from the OR picture like you will have like a centering ring out at the front of the stuffer tube, as one would expect. And I assume that the piece of corrugated cardboard you're showing above is that going to be that centering ring*. So why make a cardboard fake CR as a fixture for this step when you could use the real one?
Actually, I've discovered during a previous build that you can laminate two pieces of that stuff with the corrugations perpendicular, like plywood, and get something surprisingly strong and stiff. But you have a single piece there.
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