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A few days ago at flying our good mate Kermit Le Frog was feeling generous (as he often does) & gave me one of his collection of RC planes that had been hanging around in his shed for a rather long time.
Took a while to scrub all the dirt & fly poop from it but once finished it at least looked promising. It also needed some minor epoxy repairs on the engine cowling.
I had already decided to scrap one of my 3D printed planes (the Wolf glider) as it was in rather poor condition (although still flying) after a mishap with my grandson & his pedal car. Decided to use the Rx and FC from the Wolf and fit into the new plane which I finally finished off today.
The new one is a 1015 mm DHC-2 Beaver in the “Harbour Air” livery.
Even with a 3S 2200 LiPo fitted up front as far as it will go it appears slightly tail heavy so I’ll bring some lead just in case.
It still needs a little work but should be good enough for it’s Maiden Flight on Friday.
If it flies ok I will cut the front section out and install a dummy 3D printed rotary engine & fit a 3 blade prop to make it look a bit more authentic.
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After a mishap (walk of shame) on its maiden flight the DHC-2 Beaver “Harbour Air has been sitting in the corner of the hanger looking rather worse for wear for over 6 months.
With the current weather not conducive with flying it was time to start a few repairs.
Given that the entire section forward of the cabin was reduced to matchsticks, the motor shaft was bent, the firewall & the battery tray were destroyed I figured the first order of business was to replace the motor shaft. Lucky I had one in the spares box that fitted perfectly.
Next was to create a new ply firewall along with a stronger battery tray & motor mount frame.
That all went well so it was then on to designing & 3D printing a new motor cowl (original looked crap anyway) & a dummy 9 cylinder radial engine.
It is now all back together and ready to take to the sky again for it’s second (and hopefully better) maiden flight.
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