Electric Stunt > Gettin all AMP'ed up!
New small electric twin build thread
Crist Rigotti:
Outstanding!
Ken Culbertson:
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I love your work. Every one of your designs from the Genesis on. H^^
Ken
Bob Hunt:
Wow! Thanks for the comments Crist and Ken!
The actual fuselage shapes on the Double Take were stolen from my Wildfire design (see attached photo). I like the jet-like canopy treatment because it makes it easy to hide the hatch lines with a painted-on canopy design. It also makes tricycle gear look better. Hey, most jets (with the possible exception of a British design or two) have/had tricycle gear. I've received much higher takeoff and landing scores with trike gear than I have with taildragger type gear. Yes, it is a bit heavier, but not so much as to make it a detriment.
The jet-style look also lends itself to having a jet exhaust hole at the rear of the plane. I "Swiss Cheese" the formers in my top and bottom fuselage shells and that allows the cooling air that comes in the front to be sucked through the fuselage and out the back. The air rushing past the opening in the back causes a low pressure area at the point and the hot air is scavenged very neatly.
I'll be adding faux gear doors around the front LG leg, and between those doors will be a ramp that scoops the cool air into the battery compartment. So, a jet-style fuselage aesthetic is also a very practical one! Check these faux doors out on the Wildfire photos below; the ones on the Double Take will look the same.
Later - Bob
Bob Hunt:
Here's a photo that shows the simulated gear doors to better effect. If you look close you will see the "ramp" between the doors that scoops the air up and into the battery compartment.
I'm attaching another photo of a "Swiss Cheesed" molded top shell. This allows the air from the battery compartment to flow through the fuselage and be scavenged at the back of the plane through a simulated jet exhaust.
Later - Bob
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