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Dec 20^th, 2011 at 3:57pm

Ok guys, if you have the patience, here we go.... with my OC,and AADD and general terror of doing something wrong this might take a while.. Tongue

Retracting landing gear is installed (yes Glen, with all bolts tightened and Loktited - blue, not red, I might have to remove one some day).. lines are run to the top of the wing...

As you can see, there is plenty room IN the wing to put the air tank there.. are there any great unthought of reasons to not put it there?? While it's very light it does move some weight forward..

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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #2 - Dec 20^th, 2011 at 8:31pm Had thought of that, lots of room for the valve and a small servo, but my big clumsy fingers (!) might find it a tight fit if I ever have to adjust, but should be able to do the adjusting before its fixed inside......can always try - worst that can happen is a new package of tubing and move it out
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Reply #5 - Dec 21^st, 2011 at 11:19am

Yak Man wrote on Dec 20^th, 2011 at 9:34pm:

Nice looking job your doing there Fingers. Shocked

I don't thing you have enought locktite on the bolts. There going to fall out for sure Grin

In the "old days" before locktite, we smeared real dope over the bolts, and sometimes wired them after...never had a doped bolt come out.....

Marc its an ESM , 75in span, 30cc, same guys as built Capt. Cools spit. As you can see big mothering thick wing... that and the flaps should (I hope, hope, hope) make landings ok..
no room for a cockpit tho.

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Reply #7 - Dec 21^st, 2011 at 2:50pm

yup, saw that Glen, but if you follow the build on that neat cockpit he gets real cramped inside and has to move all the servos and the tank... with the 30cc on the front, and that carb sticking inside, running out of space anyway..... Tongue

plus I would like to fly this Hurricane sometime, and you know the cockpit would add ohhhhh about 3 years to the build... Roll Eyes

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Reply #12 - Jan 2^nd, 2012 at 10:39am

whitey wrote on Jan 1^st, 2012 at 5:03pm:

Nice Hurricane Sandy. I'm still in shock with the announcement that you purchased a helicopter. What is the world coming to?

Well, depending on whether you read Nostradamus, or follow the Incas or the Mayans, the world will (may) spin to an end this year, or maybe 2014. Or if you follow that nut case in California ( no not that one, the other one) it'll end the third Tuesday of next week....but I digress..
For the record....toy helicopters I don't mind, although there have been some self-declared fliers of them who have driven me to distraction over the years....

Real helicopters bother me a great deal - but that's a different story for a different time.. Tongue

AND, I didn't purchase a helicopter - Santa brought me one for Christmas.... Nya!! Wink

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Reply #16 - Jan 4^th, 2012 at 4:20pm

elevators are designed to be activated by wires - NOT!!!!! don't care if the original had cables for the controls, not going there... Angry

I have to relieve 2 formers to allow a CF tube with fittings on either end.
Mounted the tail wheel last night but it has to wait for the fitting of the CF tube to finalize the install of that gear...
like most ESM planes, lots of chicken and egg stuff - "this" needs "that" to fit first, but "that" needs "t'otherting" first and cant fit "t'otherting" until "this" is in..but "this" needs "that".. Tongue

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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #18 - Jan 8^th, 2012 at 7:43pm Well, not a turbine (freakin' blow torches!!!), and not enough cylinders to be a Merlin , but some progress none the less.... Draw a curved line from the bottom of the fuse up through the 4th cooling fin to the back plate and you get an idea of what will be hanging out.... plus the muffler of course
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