TOSS Blog

 Update
 
New tail made.
Hinges and wipers are installed.
Servos in the wing are mounted from the hinge gap, so no hatches e.t.c.
Canopy get's a scale interior.
Spraying of the model soon.

Wings vacuum bagged, next step is routing out ailerons and flaps and building in of servo's.
Then we can start with the paint work.
Picture in front of Golf is to show the size ao the plane.

Build Project by Hans van Kamp

The fuselage we (Anton Bennings and me) made in a mould, tail is Isoboard with glass & kevlar vacuumbagged with carbon joiners.
Main wing is Iso board with stainless steel wing joiner and will be covered with glass & kevlar with a strip of Carbon as spar.
Weight target is 6 Kg.
Servo's are ordered and on the way.
Hinges will be Kevlar.
Will try to make the flap and aileron connections in the wing with gap wipers.
Profile is semi semetrical @ the root to semetrical @ the tip, thickness 10%.
Root cord: 60 cm, tip cord 32 cm.
Length: 230 cm.
Span: 190 cm.
Scale 1/6.
This is an early version without the shark tooth leading edge.

Phase 2 - The Wing:

Here goes! Can’t delay this any longer, after a week and a half of debating which airfoils to use and then having to modify my CNC Cutter to squeeze an extra 50mm of travel out of it to accommodate the wing root of 480mm.

2 meters of 80mm ISO Board blocked out and CNC Table ready to go.

Wing cores and layed out, Wing was cut in 5 sections per side.

Had to make templates and use a hotwire bow to cut the air intake sections of the wing (The 700mm root was to big for the CNC table).

Cut wing cores including air intake section.

Panels jigged up to bore hole for wing joining system.

Plywood panels on cores where removable outer panels join (also to link wing joiner tube to wing skins).

Now to layup the glass wing joiner tubes and prepare the cores for vacuum bagging.

A project I’ve been threatening to tackle for some years now. When walking through the SAAF museum at Ysterplaat a few weeks ago I can across the Vampire DH 100 on display and was once again all inspired to build one for the slopes so here we go, this time I’ve actually started so there’s no stopping now.

Phase 1 – The big cigar: