I am about 3/4 of the way through my 1/9 scale Aerodrome Pfalz,
has been an enjoyable build sofar, i chose it so as to expose myself
to the joys of planking a fuselage, and also a good oportunity to have
a go at a lozenge scheme. i have a short build thread in progress at
RCGroups.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1249560

where it stands at the moment, all mocked up!

Cheers
Craig

Planking and lozenge... Looks excellent.

Cheers mate, slowly but surely it is coming together, still have to
glass up a spinner, and make the prop, they are about the last real
construction jobs then it is just details and final assembly.

Craig

very nice

almost there, prop, spinner, reciever, and a few touch ups to go.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1249560&page=4



Craig

Finally after a month of nothing she is ready to maiden, i vacformed another spinner out of 1mm styrene, definately feels more robust than the .5mm jobbie i tried with at first. painted it up, balanced the prop and fitted it all. ran her up for the first time with the meter on to check the numbers, she is pulling 14A and good for 112W on a 2s2200 pack. with a ready to fly weight of 26.1oz or 740g it works out to a more than ample 68Watts per pound which well and truely eclipses the pups 54Watts per pound. the CG is spot on without any ballast added very happy with the all up weight and the fact that i don't need to add any for balancing. the control surfaces are set up, she taxis dead straight so all being well she will be a good thing, fingers crossed! only real consern is the lack of airflow around the motor, she was at 50deg C after about 2 minutes of full noise running, obviously one airborne she should float along at half throttle or less so shouldn't be an issue i hope. at this stage the weekend is looking the goods wind wise, just have to suck it and see









Cheers
Craig

Poor yourself a cold one, you earned it!

cheers mate, think i will wait until after the maiden, anyway i think all the cold ones were why it took me so long to get it finished

Cheers
Craig

heya,
maidened the Pfalz the other week, it is a beautiful little flyer.
one of my mates down at the club filmed the maiden for me, and put
together a nice little vid of the flight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKDD-QIWWuM&tracker=False

Cheers
Craig

Nice, really nice. But can it only fly left turn circles?