Astro-Baby
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When I ordered up parts off Fliskits for my Rheintochter build I wildy over ordered to allow for any screw-ups plus I ordered a choice of nose cones to see what worked best. Because I happen to be a genius Rheintochter didn't use much of the stock as I took pains to get it right (well there has to be a first time for everything - even me not screwing up ).
As a result I had a lot of stuff left over including a very long pointy nose cone. I hunted around for something to build and then decided on a Rheinmetall Feuerlilie as it would use the nose up and the last remaining BT70 tube and the stock balsa I had on the shelf would also be used up at the same time plus I could use paints I already had and the whole thing would be powered by the same D12-3s I have in hand.
I did forget to order a spare motor tube (DOH !).....and there goes the genius tag I guess
Fire Lily is a lot simpler than most to build I reckon, the one after this might be Schmetterling once I work out how to do the nose cone transitions, but the headache with Fire Lily is there isn't much data around so I am working from an imperfect plan of the bird plus pictures on the web of one at RAF Cosford. Mine will be a kind of synthetic merge of the two. Just like Rheintochter every pic I look at seems a bit different and as Rheinmetall never got this thing working right my guess is they made mods after each flight.
Anyway enough of the yak - heres the thread.
Firts pic is of the basic components to build the body. A BT70 Tube plus a BT55 with a batch of BT70/BT55 centering rings plus a load of work to turn out some plans based on the technical drawing I found online. The finished kit will be about 18" tall with a wingspan of about 8" for its widest fins/wings.
As a result I had a lot of stuff left over including a very long pointy nose cone. I hunted around for something to build and then decided on a Rheinmetall Feuerlilie as it would use the nose up and the last remaining BT70 tube and the stock balsa I had on the shelf would also be used up at the same time plus I could use paints I already had and the whole thing would be powered by the same D12-3s I have in hand.
I did forget to order a spare motor tube (DOH !).....and there goes the genius tag I guess
Fire Lily is a lot simpler than most to build I reckon, the one after this might be Schmetterling once I work out how to do the nose cone transitions, but the headache with Fire Lily is there isn't much data around so I am working from an imperfect plan of the bird plus pictures on the web of one at RAF Cosford. Mine will be a kind of synthetic merge of the two. Just like Rheintochter every pic I look at seems a bit different and as Rheinmetall never got this thing working right my guess is they made mods after each flight.
Anyway enough of the yak - heres the thread.
Firts pic is of the basic components to build the body. A BT70 Tube plus a BT55 with a batch of BT70/BT55 centering rings plus a load of work to turn out some plans based on the technical drawing I found online. The finished kit will be about 18" tall with a wingspan of about 8" for its widest fins/wings.
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