Salvage-1
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Prep has started.
Body tubes were attacked with sandpaper to take that nasty sheen stuff off, then slathered with sanding sealer to fill the spirals and put a nasty sheen back on.
The two side 'engine' tubes have been glued in place with Elmers Glue all, and are waiting for fillet work to strengthen the bond. Motor mount has had one of the rings modified to allow good installation of the Kevlar bridle and a 1/4" bolt added to the back for motor retention.
Other modifications will be...
> addition of two 29mm motor mounts into the two side 'engine' pods.
> sheet of ply will be added to the bottom of the 'wings' and will go through a slot for TTW fixture through to the 29mm tube.
> av bay to handle dual deploy (reasoning see below)
> timer bay will be in the top engine pod to make running timer wires much easier.
> Flux Capacitor and Reactive Shielding to be installed later.
> possible (highly probable) kitbash into a Mk IV DeSanto model Viper (see pic) This uses round intakes, etc, and engine cowling.
Hoping to set this up to run on 3Grain CTI 38mm main and 2x3grain CTI 29mm airstart 'outboards'. I175 ish off the rod, and a pair of H54's lighting 1 second after 'take off' is detected. Kind of like the Vipers kicking "Turbo". This 'boilerplate' flight is simming around 4500 (must be those H54's....), but a more realistic set of numbers will make itself apparent when I get the weights, etc, worked out properly. I dont want this to 'drift off to the next zip code', so that is my reason for making DD a possibility. Also allows me to push the main chute as far forward as possible to offset those engines!!
More to come!!
Body tubes were attacked with sandpaper to take that nasty sheen stuff off, then slathered with sanding sealer to fill the spirals and put a nasty sheen back on.
The two side 'engine' tubes have been glued in place with Elmers Glue all, and are waiting for fillet work to strengthen the bond. Motor mount has had one of the rings modified to allow good installation of the Kevlar bridle and a 1/4" bolt added to the back for motor retention.
Other modifications will be...
> addition of two 29mm motor mounts into the two side 'engine' pods.
> sheet of ply will be added to the bottom of the 'wings' and will go through a slot for TTW fixture through to the 29mm tube.
> av bay to handle dual deploy (reasoning see below)
> timer bay will be in the top engine pod to make running timer wires much easier.
> Flux Capacitor and Reactive Shielding to be installed later.
> possible (highly probable) kitbash into a Mk IV DeSanto model Viper (see pic) This uses round intakes, etc, and engine cowling.
Hoping to set this up to run on 3Grain CTI 38mm main and 2x3grain CTI 29mm airstart 'outboards'. I175 ish off the rod, and a pair of H54's lighting 1 second after 'take off' is detected. Kind of like the Vipers kicking "Turbo". This 'boilerplate' flight is simming around 4500 (must be those H54's....), but a more realistic set of numbers will make itself apparent when I get the weights, etc, worked out properly. I dont want this to 'drift off to the next zip code', so that is my reason for making DD a possibility. Also allows me to push the main chute as far forward as possible to offset those engines!!
More to come!!
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