In this video I continue with the construction of the wing of the Balsa USA Smoothie, which includes joining the wing halves together and setting the wing dihedral. To set the wing dihedral I need to cut and sand the main spars, leading edge and trailing edge to the right length and angle. It's not difficult, but can be a little tricky. I also add some plywood reinforcement to the main spar area and trailing edge area to make the wing join stronger. Finally the wings are joined using 30 minute epoxy and held together with clamps and allowed to cure.
The Balsa USA Smoothie kit is a 40 class (size) sport plane and has been around for a long time and is still readily available on the Balsa USA website. For this balsa kit build I will use traditional rc plane kit build techniques.
In each build series episode I will focus a different aspect of the build including the wing, fuselage, tail section rudder and elevator, engine mount, landing gear, tail gear, engine set up (OS Engines .46 AXII), fuel tank, servos and receiver (Futaba), control rods and horns, Monokote covering, carving and shaping wood, using CA glue (Zap CA glue, Starbond CA glue), epoxies (JB Weld, Bob Smith Industries, Z-poxy finishing resin), tools and everything thing else involved with building a radio control plane kit (RC Airplane kit).
I have been building, flying, crashing, modifying, and repairing radio control planes for many years and enjoy sharing what I do with the radio control plane community, so I started RC Plane Tech channel for fun.
8 окт 2024