Contents

• 1. Preface
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 About the Designer
  • 1.3 Build Options
  
  
• 2. Preparation
• 3. Tail
  • 3.1 Kit Parts Required
  • 3.2 Additional Parts Required
  • 3.3 Preparation notes
  • 3.4 Build Notes
    • 3.4.1 Boom cutting
    • 3.4.2 Vertical Stabilizer and Rudder preparation
    • 3.4.3 Tape hinging the vertical stabilizer
    • 3.4.4 Horizontal stabilizer and elevator
    • 3.4.5 Horizontal stabilizer bonding to boom
    • 3.4.6 Vertical stabilizer bonding to boom
  
  
• 4. fuselage
  • 4.1 Kit Parts Required
  • 4.2 Additional Parts Required
  • 4.3 Preparation Notes
  • 4.4 Build Notes
    • 4.4.1 fuselage side preparation
    • 4.4.2 Formers
    • 4.4.3 Wing mount crossbeam doublers
    • 4.4.4 Lower deck
    • 4.4.5 Boom mount blocks
    • 4.4.6 Fuselage reinforcements
    • 4.4.7 Joining the boom to the fuselage
  • 4.5 Summary
  
  
• 5. Wing
  • 5.1 Dihedral braces
  • 5.2 Wing bolt blocks
    • 5.2.1 Leading block
    • 5.2.2 Trailing block
  • 5.3 Main wing construction
    • 5.3.1 Ribs to TE, spars and bottom sheeting
    • 5.3.2 Frontal webbing
  • 5.4 Shaping wing trailing edges
  • 5.5 Assembling two wing halves with dihedral brace
  • 5.6 Adding half ribs and leading wing mount block
    • 5.6.1 First set of half ribs
    • 5.6.2 Leading wing bolt block
    • 5.6.3 Second set of half ribs
  • 5.7 Adding top D box sheeting
  • 5.8 Adding rear webbing
  • 5.9 Adding Leading edge
  • 5.10 Adding Wingtips
  • 5.11 Adding wing gussets
  • 5.12 Dihedral brace center sheeting and finishing
  • 5.13 Applying Carbon Fiber tow to the wings
  • 5.14 Drilling wing bolt holes
    • 5.14.1 Leading side wing bolt
    • 5.14.2 Trailing side wing bolt
  • 5.15 Drilling fuselage wing bolt holes
    • 5.15.1 Primary hole in crossbeam F6
    • 5.15.2 Secondary hole in located in crossbeam F7
  • 5.16 Finishing
    • 5.16.1 Shaping the leading edge
  
  
• 6. Nose block and canopy
  • 6.1 Nose block
  • 6.2 Canopy
  • 6.3 Shaping
  • 6.4 Securing the Canopy
  
  
• 7. Control Rod and Horn Installation
  • 7.1 Control horn installations
    • 7.1.1 Rudder control horn installation
    • 7.1.2 Elevator control horn installation
  • 7.2 Control wire and tube installation
  
  
• 8. Servo installation
• 9. Covering
• 10. Peg Installation
• 11. Optional Enhancements
  • 11.1 Rear fuselage fairing
  • 11.2 Fiber glassing (ADVANCED)
    • 11.2.1 Fuselage Glassing
    • 11.2.2 Canopy Glassing
  
  
• 12. Final Assembly
• 13. Flying
  • 13.1 Setting the Center of Gravity
  • 13.2 Test gliding
  
  
• 14. Appendix
  • 14.1 Making support tubes / sheaths
    • 14.1.1 Introduction
    • 14.1.2 Requirements
    • 14.1.3 Procedure
  • 14.2 Common product names
  • 14.3 Commonly used Terms and Acronyms
  • 14.4 Conversions
    • 14.4.1 Lengths and sizes
    • 14.4.2 Weights
  • 14.5 Further information
  
  
• Index