Dowels assembly

Wing dowels, this will be glued to the center of the main spar    

                                                                                                                                                 

Nice assembly, strong but very light.

Wing ribs and dowel

Finally i'm messing around with epoxy and glued the front "master" ribs, the ones that will hold the mains. ...all perpendicular..

LE, Spar and TE

Hi, did some work on the leading edge, the central spar and the trailing edge of wing root.
here are some pictures, as you can see, or imagine, the spars and edges are composed of 2 or 3 or 6 pieces of ply glued together.

i wrote down the lines for alignement on all the "spars" and "edges", tonight i'm gonna make the ribs and epoxy them...hope to do a neat work, no twisting...

in the last picture you can see the spar doublers; i'll glue the "master ribs" on the sides of those, they'll embrace the main gears. (with the rails on them).

hope to post again tomorrow
bye

Finally the Wing!

hi guys,
here is the very beginning of wing construction.

the central spar is made of 6 different spar halves glued together, pretty heavy but tough..

then some epoxy messing to glue the initial rib halves..one week to complete this part, epoxy finished, have to buy some.
can you see that little embosses in the ribs? there will be glued the gear rails, have to be the strongest part of the wing now.

Some aileron scaling

Did a little work on the ailerons.
All that 48 little triangles bored me one evening long....but now it's done!

next step, as you can see on the mini-plan, the rudder scaling.

then trim tabs and functional balance tabs.

Fin

Hinges hiding ply...
i'll have to trim them. and then sand sand sand the rudder leading edge.

and some scaling work on the elevators, this should look good with the fabric on..i'm going to choose koverall

now the other side then the wing... gonna start the serious work shortly! can't wait to try and fit the main gear prototype!!
see you

Full metal gears - mains

as i promised here are some pictures ( a month old ) of the mains.
totally metal scale cnc'ed electric rotating landing gears..
this is the first prototype, in the future i'll post some other images.

note that the base joint is exactly as full-scale airplane, it guarantees the 90 degrees rotating movement.
the plate will be facing trailing edge.

a little oleo is inside the main tube

Tail almost finished

 After some time i worked a little on the tail of this sweet lady.

hinges and "tubing" finished.

this is the finished look of the tail feathers..