Wing progression

Today appeared to be pretty productive, got quite a bit done in an hour, managed to get the base of the wings glued on, and am halfway through gluing on the upper skin. Twinwall is again proving hard to trim in a nice straight line, especially if you're cutting diagonally across the flutes, so it's a bit messy.


I've had to secure some parts with tape (due to mistakes/trying to get the twinwall to bend), so it does look a bit shabby, but the finished product will be much nicer.

The more I look at the pictures, the more shabby it becomes. I swear it looked nicer in the workshop.

Things to do next session:

• Finish the gluing
• Construct the ailerons
• Attach the wing to the fuselage

I'm still thinking about the optimum angle of attack for our plane (if any). I was initially going for zero, but recent suggestions have said otherwise...

Making the wings + attachment?

We finished the fuselage spine (and we cut a few more holes in it to allow for cable management). We've been working on some foam nosecones and underbody to take the landing, but unfortunately a certain someone made a right mess of it. Anyhows, we'll probably be evolving it into an acrylic nosecone for a FPV camera mounting.

As far as the wings ar concerned, the most of the wing ribs have been completed, shaped and sanded to size, but we've still to add weight-saving holes and a hole for the carbon spar to go through. After that it's a case of putting them on the spar and skinning it with some 2mm twinwall. Once that's done, we have the nightmare of attaching it to the fuselage, a problem presented due to the lack of foresight on my part. I was initially hoping for some kind of removable wing attachment, but that dream is long gone...

After that, we've to sort out the control surfaces, and I've got a pretty good of how the ailerons are going to work, as well as the elevators. We've also acquired some new hardware, as our previous electronics were, well, a bit cheap (and they definitely won't be able to cope with the bigger airframe).