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Just about a day for D rigs by the look of it. !!

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Looking good Ron, it will appear to be perfect in the air.

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Today it’s time to start again on “Double Trouble”

I have finally managed to source the correct universal joint couplings (5mm x 4mm) to connect the new brushless motors to the propshafts.  No doubt they will take a few weeks to arrive from downtown China so in the meantime I’ll remove all the watercooling pickups & outlets that were fitted to cool the brushed motors that were fitted when the Outboards were first removed.

                      

The brushless ESC’s are aircooled (fan assisted) and the motors are so oversized that they barely get warm so no additional cooling is required.

Inlet & outlet pipes have been removed so next job is to fibreglass all the holes then the bottom of the hull & the rudders can be painted.

Also need to manufacture a timber stand for storage & display purposes.

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Thanks Mr Moose, it’s still not quite right but its getting closer.

I tilted the mast forward a bit today so see what happens next sailing day.

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Another quality video there Uncle G, thanks.

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Hoppy, here is the link, it is available at the top of our links page.

https://sites.google.com/site/adf65rsa/

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Don’t know if Miss Piggy will be able to handle the additional weight. Looking at her last jump the descent was quite rapid so I’m guessing she has been pigging out again and stacking on the pork.!!

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Nice comments from our videographer Royal !!

Thanks Kermit.

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Thanks John, I sent Justin an email & he has arranged to pick his transmitter up later in the week.

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Video from the first day of flying the S800 Sky Shadow wing.

All in all it went much better than I expected as the only other wing I had flown to date was my X-Vert VTOL wing.

 

I have now changed from a 6×4 – 2 blade prop to a 6×5.5 – 2 blade.

Motor current has only gone up from around 14.4A to 16.5A so still well under the ESC limit of 30A

I will also activate the Auto Launch function in the iNav FC and try and dial back the stabilisation slightly to stop the wing rocking @ low speed.

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Thanks Chris, however if you dig a little deeper you will find that the full name of the S800 is in fact a Reptile S800 Sky Shadow (sold by BG & HK).  The V1 is generally Black and the V2 is generally Grey.  The V2 also has a vented canopy and supposedly the build foam is denser & more solid.

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Well hopefully, but you never know.

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That is why I posted it late, didn’t want to be seen to be stealing your thunder.

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Give it to Miss Piggy next time she is going parachuting with Kermit, I’m sure it will fly then (but the landing may not be all that great !!)

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Missed this one from Monday.

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