FoxJet Build Log

[Miles]

At the moment, just pics, will annotate later
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GMinty fox from SWM, 14.99 with 2 servos, £20 inc postage, but they only spent £2 on the stamp???


So, includes the green Wing, Elevator and Canopy


Built


Weighs in at 51G, more that Gordons orange one?


Mark COG on wing


Remove Canopy with something blunt


Canopy off


There's a 9G bearing


Remove it, I levered it out with a flat head screw driver


9G...


Brng it down to 42G


Now Cut out the tab that holds on the canopy, I used a Scalpel and sandpaper, but you can melt it out with a soldering iron.


The motor :) this produces 250G~300G of thrust with a 4X5 Prop on a 2 cell batt, shoud go quite quickly.


Weighs in at 16G, 1G more than they say, shouldn't be an issue though...


Annoyingly, it is a front mounted motor so I originally designed a piece of ABS plastic to mount it on, however it comes with this Triangle Mount, which is stronger than my mount :)


That adds 1G


I was thinking I could mount it with some 2' Carbon Tubes with screws in them...


... like that, they are stuck in with Araldite :)


My amazing spacer method, it actually worked quite well


Adding the third leg


Fitted with an easystar prop


It has one of those Prop saver rubber band thingys


Bck to the plane, I had marked out areas to cut for the servo and ESC... I cut around the edge with a Scalpel, then puled out small pieces of foam with a pair of wire snipper's. That is the Aileron Servo


I then drilled out the holes for the Motor, they don't look straight but they are...


I coated the inside of the hole with araldite and stuck it in, I tried to make it as parallel to the plane as possible...

To be cont'd
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[Coyote]

Looks good so far bud, another Fox, these are really popular this month :)

[Miles]

Looks good so far bud, another Fox, these are really popular this month :)

Yeah lol, I needed a plane that is small enough to take with me to croatia, I am building it to flat pack :)
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