Zippy
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Here's my not quite Tulanko sized pictorial of the building of my 3" diameter Jayhawk target drone.
It stands about 41" tall and weighs something like 4 - 4 1/2 lbs fully glassed. It uses two 29mm engines.
It's maiden flight went great on 2 x F52's although the wood dowel used as a pitot tube snapped off
on landing. I've since replaced it with a fiberglass rod. It's next flight should be this Saturday on 2 x G64's.
The 2 29mm - 3" PML centering rings.
2 9" long 29mm MMT's from PML phenolic tube.
Top ring epoxied, bottom ring not.
3" PML phenolic airframe slotted.
The 2 G10 finlets cut out.
Main fins cut out with balsa trailing edge below.
The assembled fin can.
Finlets installed.
Body and fin can joined.
The wire tunnel components.
Wire tunnel installed.
Jayhawk under glass.
Barney Rubble rocket.
Sanded and spot puttied.
Primered.
Primered and puttied.
Yet more primer, yet more putty,
and on and on.
First paint.
3" PML nose cone and parts.
Assembled nose cone.
Some putty.
Some primer.
Some paint.
More paint.
Yet more paint.
HOLY BEEJEEZUS IT'S FINISHED, DECALS AND ALL!
Some glory shots unfortunatly taken with less than glorious abillity.
The bottom.
The top.
The left.
The right.
Da' buisiness END.
It stands about 41" tall and weighs something like 4 - 4 1/2 lbs fully glassed. It uses two 29mm engines.
It's maiden flight went great on 2 x F52's although the wood dowel used as a pitot tube snapped off
on landing. I've since replaced it with a fiberglass rod. It's next flight should be this Saturday on 2 x G64's.
The 2 29mm - 3" PML centering rings.
2 9" long 29mm MMT's from PML phenolic tube.
Top ring epoxied, bottom ring not.
3" PML phenolic airframe slotted.
The 2 G10 finlets cut out.
Main fins cut out with balsa trailing edge below.
The assembled fin can.
Finlets installed.
Body and fin can joined.
The wire tunnel components.
Wire tunnel installed.
Jayhawk under glass.
Barney Rubble rocket.
Sanded and spot puttied.
Primered.
Primered and puttied.
Yet more primer, yet more putty,
and on and on.
First paint.
3" PML nose cone and parts.
Assembled nose cone.
Some putty.
Some primer.
Some paint.
More paint.
Yet more paint.
HOLY BEEJEEZUS IT'S FINISHED, DECALS AND ALL!
Some glory shots unfortunatly taken with less than glorious abillity.
The bottom.
The top.
The left.
The right.
Da' buisiness END.