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Title:	Welcome To The Radio Control Conference
Notice:	dir's in 11, who's who in 4, sales in 6, auctions 19
Moderator:	VMSSG::FRIEDRICHS

Created:	Tue Jan 13 1987
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1706
Total number of notes:	27193

1161.0. "Calypso" by HEFTY::TENEROWICZT () Thu Jan 04 1990 07:34

    
    	Last night I started assembly/construction of a pair of World
    Engines (Model Tech) Calypso's. Fine kits. For 124.95 you get an
    assembled fuse with the horizontal stan cut out. Wings and stab
    cut from foam and sheeted. Including tips. The vertical and all
    control surfaces are solid balsa stock. Last night saw the fitting
    of the gear blocks on one ship for a set of B & D mechanical
    retracts. The ship is a taildragger. I then glued the blocks in
    and installed the retracts. The mount area was then covered with
    balsa and sanded to the contour of the wing. Next I made one aileron
    servo box and cut and fitted this to a wing half. One nice feature
    of this kit is that they cut the servo wire hole in the wing for
    you. I then cut a hole for the mechanical pushrod. Next was the
    fitting of the plywood dihedral braces (2) and cutting the wing
    for a pipe tunnel. The pipe fits into the wing about 1/3 of the
    way. To support the wing two braces and fitted and the pipe channel
    is sheeted with a fiberglass duct (included in the kit). When the
    wing is joined the duct is glued in and then trimmed to match the
    surface of the bottom sheeting. Then you fiberglas the center section.
    	Tonight is J/A night so i don't expect to get anything done.
    
    
    	One thing I'd like to do but needs comments from the noters
    on is an adjustable stab. Of late I've seen ships that have a different
    mounting system and am thinking of installing it on the stab. My
    concern is "How strong is it"?  The system I've seen has four 1/8"thick
    tongues. Two for the front and two for the rear. They sit on the
    bottin of the stab sadded attached to the fuse. A bolt runs threw
    each tongue and into a mount in the stab. Washers are used to shim
    the stab up or down. Understand that the calypso is a build up fuse
    of balsa and ply. If I block in the bottom stab saddle and the cut
    a notch to accept the 1/8" plywood tongue will this glue joint hold?
    
    
    Tom

T.R	Title	User	Date	Lines
1161.1		SA1794::TENEROWICZT	`Mon Jan 08 1990 06:46`	25
	Friday and the weekend was spent on further assembly. To date one wing is completed. This includes the two aileron servo boxes outboard on the wing, retracts installed, wing joined abd the fiberglas tunnel installed. In addition I've installed the fiberglass tunnel at the chin of the fuse. The stab cut out has been enlarged and the mounting tabs for the horizontal stab installed. I've fiberglassed the bottom of the centersection but need to do the top. The retract servo bay is sheeted with 1/64 ply. I had to cut and rebend the rear exhaust header to fit this ship. Presently I'm waiting for this to come back before I install the firewall. I'm planning on using a soft mount so this will necessitate cutting a new firewall. The location is changing. The other item of note is that the plans calling for a side (positioned at 8:00 O'clock) mounted engine indicate the offset of the engine mount from the center of the fuse to get the desired 1.5 degrees of side thrust. With the full inverted set up this no longer works. Once I have the firewall installed I'll be mounting the cowl and refiguring where the engine mounts now go. Latter, Tom
1161.2		HEFTY::TENEROWICZT	`Tue Jan 09 1990 07:36`	17
	Last night was a short one. The flu seems to have a grip on the whole house... Anyways I got the fuel tank in the mail yesterday so it got assembled and fitted into the fuse. This is quite easy at this time because the firewall has yet to be installed. Trying somethin new. Rather than wraping the tank with foam I've cut the foam and epoxied the four pieces to the sides, top and bottom of the tank compartment. The tank will fit into this area from the wing saddle opening so it can be removed if a problem arises. other than that the only other progress was with the firewall. A replacement was cut and fitted. Latter, Six Sigma training today. Tom
1161.3		HEFTY::TENEROWICZT	`Wed Jan 10 1990 07:46`	12
	Last night I installed the firewall and the fuel tank. Because of the engine mounting system I'm using the fuel tank sits back app. 1.5 inches into the wing compartment. This caused an interference problem with the wing. To solve this I needed to go to a shorted (smaller) tank or releave the wing. I choose to keep the 450cc tank and releave the wing. Tonight is Executive Committee meeting night so I don't expect to get anything done. Latter, Tom
1161.4		SA1794::TENEROWICZT	`Thu Jan 11 1990 10:27`	22
	Last night saw our clubs executive committee meetig so little time was spend on the plane. I did however get the rear exhaust header returned all set for installation. A few minutes after the meeting and I had the front edge of the plywood tank floor/pipe tunnel cut out to accept the header. Ten more minutes and I had the exposed tank compartment sheeted with 1/64 plywood. I have a small section of glass cloth to install to cover on exposed area of the tunnel and a small baffle to add to allow for the pressure take off fitting and the engine installation is finished. To let you understand how slick this installation is the only parts of the engine that hang in the breeze are the needle valve and the very top 3/8" of the engine cylinder. The Calypso has a chin molded into the front bottom of the cowl. This flat stop has been removed for intake into the carb and cooling air over the cylinder. Latter, Tom