So, moving further…
The covering… I did the covering with this type of pattern for the first time in my life… i think i quite succeeded so far 😀
I played a LOT with the temperature, and the style of covering, I decided that the best way is to cover the sides separately, with separate sheets of covering
The wing is nearly finished
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I’m falling in love with this kit! It has some parts to think about but still i love to build my Fournier
So, I glued the bend’s into the elevator and rudder, finishing my fuselage and starting with the wings…
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I’m building the fuselage, the glue that i use “kleiberit” is a mess… so i had to do something to reduce the amount of the glue because when it reacts to air it starts to bubble a lot and spreads… so i nee only minor glue….
for that i made this:
Made of a 3mm carbon rood ant a needle. Works perfectly for me to use the right amount of glue!
Not the photos of how far i have gone… the plane assembles with no big problems, maybe only the fittings are a bit lose…
so, making some progress… let see how it fits without glue only with the rubber:
quite nice i must say!
Lets see the wings:
now the wings got some minor problems, let see the plank blueprint…
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So, the first impression of the West wings kit – AWESOME!!!
some photo’s of the inbox items:
1 st the blueprint:
it’s really good that it is 1:1 scale, i think it will help a lot in the future
2nd the plank blueprint:
not quite useful i think, but it will help…
Hi all! tomorrow I will receive West Wings kit Fournier RF4. I googled for some build blogs or other info, sadly there were only a few build blogs, and not informative enough for me. This will be my first EVER balsa kit (or model, name how you want it) so I’m quite…well a LOT exited! The strangest thing i noticed on the net that some shops say it’s wing length is 1.5m others – 1.7m where’s the truth? i will measure it my self 🙂 As far i had read it should be quite easy to build, i like making stuff, i love gliders, but i chose the motor version because i don’t have anyone to lift it up for me or a hill to throw it from… But in future i will get or build a glider without a motor 🙂
Fournier in real life (wiki copy)
The Fournier RF 4 is a single-seater motor glider designed by René Fournier in 1966. It is an aerobatic version of the Fournier RF-3.[2][1]
The other thing that i loved that it is an aerobatic plane 🙂
General characteristics
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I’m getting better! I think… so here’s today’s video:
fpv training 5 !
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Today I tested my camera tilt… Works great!
Me and my friend who is new at this started flying… it was quite windy… problem for me was that the wind was blowing to the city side so I couldn’t film above the city… the problem for my friend was that he hasn’t got much experience, and I’m not talking about the wind, i’m talking about the whole flying thing…
Here’s what has happened:
His plane has only rudder control, by the time I was flying he got blown above the city :O we thought we had lost the plane for ever… but with the help of some kids he managed to find it without even a scratch!
Later on he did the same mistake… can you believe it? he lost the plane AGAIN! Â and found it AGAIN! we decided to name the plane “lucky”…
My video of today:
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Building camera tilt (UP, DOWN) and changing the video transmitter’s place.
The transmitter works fine, now I need a better video signal…
I have made a ground station
with the old Dx6i in it
the bad thing is that the video receiver is not high so I get a lot of noise on the screen, so my easiest solution for it was to put it higher… how? simple… Continue reading Project Flight pt. 7
