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John Cooper | Guillows Series 300 - Fiesler Storch | Parked | 16-Mar-14 13:47 | |
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This Storch is a little nose heavy, balancing just past he leading edge. I'll try flying it like this before adding tail weight. |
John Cooper | Guillows Series 300 - Fiesler Storch | Parked | 16-Mar-14 13:45 | |
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The landing gear have a somewhat realistic motion - An aluminium tube in the fake Oleo allows the carbon fiber rod attached to the wing root, to retract. |
John Cooper | Guillows Series 300 - Fiesler Storch | Flying | 09-Mar-14 10:31 | |
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Leading edge slats are installed. I built them from a lamination of 2 1/32 sheets and then sanded to an airfoil shape. |
John Cooper | Guillows Series 300 - Fiesler Storch | Build | 03-Mar-14 12:16 | |
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I am building the Storch for indoor R/C and estimate all-up-weight of under 100g (3.6 oz) . The little E-Flite 180 motor will be way too much power, but it fits nicely. The Aeronavale roundels are simply paper printed with an inkjet. A generous amount of glue stick softens the paper to conform nicely to the tissue. The rudder has white tissue printed with an inkjet printer. |
John Cooper | Guillows Series 300 - Fiesler Storch | Build | 03-Mar-14 12:10 | |
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It was a bit of a pain to cover the parts where the outer panels meet the upper window. In some cases I needed tweezers to pull the tissue in place. I will also be adding extended slats. |
John Cooper | Guillows Series 300 - Fiesler Storch | Build | 03-Mar-14 12:06 | |
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A Dumas, Not a Guillow's Storch. I am covering it with blue tissue, chalked with black. It will have a post war Aeronavale (French Navy Air Arm) paint scheme. I won't be using much paint, however. The cowl here is covered with many bits of blue tissue. |