Monday, June 25, 2007

BAH!

Well I've done all I can on the F-22... That is until the large servo arms I ordered come in.

I ran all the cables for the servo's and we are good to go, but I seemed to have misplaced three long servo arms that the alierons and flaps require. I'm not 100% sure how I am going to set up the flaps as they work in conjunction, not opposite, so a Y-cable isn't going to do it. I don't have a reverse servo either. I think I may just mount the servo in reverse and see if that does it. If not I'll fly it with fixed flaps for a bit.

It's really a much larger plane than I thought it was going to be!

The new radio and servo's did show up, now I have spare servos coming out the ears which, in my opinion, is a good thing. I have four spare JR Sports and 2 spare Futaba 3004's, but no spare reciever. So I think I'll hold off on getting any other airplanes.

Our landlord (one heck of a nice guy) just gave me carte-blanche to do what I will with the 3rd floor. I'm going to get some milk crates (12 I think) and get a nice hollow door core and build a nice build table. The one I have now is only 3x4 and isn't big enough for my larger models (Ziroli Stuka, and Romain Research MiG-3). The only "issue" is that I need to move all my stuff for building upstairs! *grin*

2 comments:

Roborat, Ph.D said...

SO? Did it fly?

Evil_Merlin said...

Oh hell yes. Quite nicely too. Following the first two flights I ran into some engine issues, so its currently sitting in pieces on the kitchen table again as I work out the engine kinks...