Monday, December 2, 2024

Good luck and bad.

Several weeks ago I was flying my prototype Wild Thing and it scufed the ground inverted. It didn't break the prop so I put it up again. A few minutes into the flight the entire nose section came off. The prop broke this time. The wing wasn't harmed so I deceided to build another fuselage, recover the wing and tail and set it up for the Brodak .40 engine instead of the smaller O.S. .25. The weights are very close with the .40 being 1.5 ounces lighter. I started on the re build when I got a Yak 9 kit from my contest and a Oriental profile kit at the El Dorado contest. I started on the Yak 9 along with the re build and then started the Oriental too. Then i bought another engine, a Super Tiger .51. I planned to put that engine in the electric Nomad. So I started to cut into that as well. I did put the Yak 9 aside for the time being. I designed an engine crutch for the Nomad that fits inside the battery tray portion of the electric mount so I didn't have to cut away too much of the nose. As of now all three fuselages are done and getting the noses fiberglassed. I stripped the paint from the Nomad fuselage as I didn't use fuel proof paint as it wsan't needed being electric. A few more coats of dope and the Oriental wing will be ready for assembly into the fuselage.

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