Zephalcon Z3 Copy Scratchbuild

[iwan_canobi]

I keep looking at getting a small basic wing again, but remembered about this. It got stripped for parts ages ago but I always liked the way it flew, so I pulled it out of the loft the other day and decided to hack it apart as the center section was worse for wear. I'm re-building with a thinner center section and will have a single vertical stab, kind of like the Skywalker X6.

Progress so far -



The wings are in pretty bad shape with loads of cutouts, but I'll just fill them with foam scraps.

I'm going to keep this super simple, no AP to faff about with, just an Rx and VTx and board cam. I'm fed up faffing about tuning things so this is going to be a chuck in the air thing for some fun. I've got a 1250kV NTM motor which should have plenty of power on 4S and 8x6 prop.

[Billy_boy_2010]

Looks like fun!

I know what you mean about adding compoments. You start with a simple cheap plane. Chuck a Lipo in there and you're in the air within 2 mins. Before you know it you have dozens of additional components and features. The planes value is 5x what it was before. You fly less and perform less adventurous stuff.

There's a lot to be said for keeping it simple and expendable!

[iwan_canobi]

Exactly, this airframe owes me absolutely nothing and I have all the bits required in my spares box to get it flying. Only thing I'm short of in the box is time though unfortunately! :(

[iwan_canobi]

Made some more progress on this, glued the wings on and spar in, cut out a vertical stabiliser and some elevons from some spare balsa I had. I also realised that the z3 nose I'd designed was exactly the right width for the center section I'd made, a total fluke but works well! The wings look a mess but they are structurally intact so I'm sure it will be fine once I fill the holes and laminate it.




EDIT: I don't know why postimg keeps rotating my pictures!  \0/