Eurofighter FPV build

[mark]

Hi there I've watched this post for 2 weeks now (I know you been doing your project since march) but its been a novel of trial, tribulation and love. Today is the first time I've seen you use a swear word and I take my hat off to you Sir. I've enjoyed every minute of your build but shiX happens. Unfortunately to you. Every respect m8 on so many different levels.

[mark]

Cant wait for the next one. If it works Ill swear for you. As will we all.

[SouthPawPaul]

I think I'm having another crisis.

Man that thing is sexy in the air.

Congratulations on the LOS maiden.

[Zeeflyboy]

Thanks guys, very kind as ever!

Hope to get you a cockpit view video soon. I doubt I'll be ready to actually fly FPV with it until I get back from holiday though, I want to test everything thoroughly first, and as I alluded to I may switch to RVOSD 5.

The switch would also free up a channel either for gear or rssi/link quality which would be nice.

[Pasty]

very cool plane

[wgt40w]

@Zeeflyboy

At various points in the build you expressed concern that the plane might finish up being overweight.
From what I can see on your maiden the top speed looks perfectly scale-like acceptable.

To continue to keep us all entertained - can we now expect further build posts re: fitting retracts ???

[Zeeflyboy]

Yes, I believe it will be tricky, and i dont intend to land FPV for some time... With gear it'd be a little easier as you could carry more speed. Although the same applies to the real plane so if they can do it......

The cockpit does actually have a good few degrees of "tilt" built in - its level while the wings have about 5ish degrees, so that helps.

Wg - The build continues... Once ive fixed the wing I have some tidying up to do, I want to make a custom fibreglass turtle deck cover and covers for the vTX etc... Then i shall be printing my own decals to do it up in an RAF scheme.

Since I do have a very nice set of electric retracts it would be a shame not to have the ability to use them - I have infact already ordered some more connectors à la canopy and wing to make some self-connecting gear units. No point carrying the weight around generally, but if they can be fitted within a couple of minutes, why not have the option!

[wgt40w]

Great - so I will eagerly await further developments.

[Zeeflyboy]

Good to hear!

The wing repair is coming along quite nicely, The damage went a bit further back than it first appeared and so I'm having to re-do panel lines etc too.

I used a combination of boiling water to re-expand and help bend the foam back into shape, some gorilla glue to stick it back in place and fill some small gaps, then finally a mix of blended (yes, blended in a blender lol) polystyrene and gorilla glue to create a lightweight foaming filler to fill the remaing large gaps.

All that was then cut and sanded roughly into shape, I recut panel lines using a sharp knife, and then covered it in lightweight filler. I sanded that back and am now on my second coat waiting for it to dry... hopefully once this coat is done it'll be nice and smooth and ready for some glassing over the top.

I'm fairly confident it'll be a seamless repair once done!







I hope I don't have to do this after every blooming outing!

[Zeeflyboy]

Right, repair from my maiden is going well...

All smoothed down, panel lines restored and ready for re-glassing. I'm fairly confident this will be more or less un-noticeable once done. Phew!

[Zeeflyboy]

So, final repair complete... It's not 100% perfect but I'm fairly happy! I think you would't know the trauma the wing had endured by looking at it, and only by looking very closely would you know anything had happened at all. The panel lines give it away really, they aren't quite perfect. Importantly though the leading edge is nice and straight, the curve is the right shape etc so it should work nicely.

Hopefully I don't need to do another repair for a while!

[g.collins]

Great to see it fling at last, great build well don.
;) G

[wgt40w]

The next time I crash mine, I'll know who to send it to for 'straightening' !!

[mark]

I had a fling once but thats onother topic ha.

[tdmodels]

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