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Pizzaz with sliced ribs
Mike Quinn:
Hello
Started building a Pizzaz to replace the ‘hand me down 3rd hand’ one I acquired. The original plan has a foam wing and slightly more taper but I’m following the basic layout of the one I had.
Not built a full depth, sliced rib model before so feel free to comment. OS 46LA powered.
Cheers
Mike
Motorman:
Nice sturdy push rod you got there. Looks like the bellcrank travel is limited.
Mike Quinn:
Hi
Yeah, I robbed some of the parts from the original. The pushrod is an arrow shaft. Lighter than it looks 😀. The travel is way more than it will need. Probably 60 degrees or more. Just looks tight in photo.
Lol, had more photos but lost the will to live trying to add them due to size restrictions,
Will have another look later.
I’ll put some weights as I go as not sure if I’m going too heavy here or there. I’m making this one out of largely ‘odds and sods’ balsa … some of which came from the ‘waste’ off a 1/5 Slingsbury Petrel RC laser cut glider kit as you can see from the STB TE piece. Balsa is too expensive to waste these days 😕
Cheers
PS this is what the finished model looks like before the ground got in the way. Not pretty but good enough for learning on. Had been messing with 2K base/clear finishing on Oracover film.
Dave Hull:
Interesting. The wing construction pictured seems to be a hybrid of Detroiter and Egg Crate. And the plans appear to show foam D-tube. Lots of variety and ideas here....
Mike Quinn:
Hi Dave.
It seemed pretty strong, the wing was probably salvageable after the crash but I decided to cut it up into pieces to see how the guy had put it together. It will be sheeted on the LE so kind of a D box of sorts, with cap strips and some TE sheeting.
I’ve built many RC and Freeflight models but not too many CL models and only one 46 sized model so some of this is slightly unfamiliar territory. Lol, I used to be able to predict how much one of my FF comp models would come out to within 10 or 15g but this is virgin territory so to speak.
And I suck at flying CL too 😂
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