Scale 112” - Taylorcraft by HeyLuc & Snoopy.

Will the plane is all back together with a tail. Covered and ready for the radio and engine. Will have to do the CG all over again. Not sure if I am going stop at this point and start a new plane build for the 150cc 3 cylinder. Or finish of the Taylor Craft ready to fly, will have buy some radio equipment because I stole most of it for another plane.

just for reference this how the looked with the original tail section.

Nice job brother. Hopefully it flies better.

pawnshopmike said:

Nice job brother. Hopefully it flies better.

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Man I hope so a lot of work if it doesn’t.

Well making progress slowly not in a rush anymore just plotting along and taking my time putting it back together again. The engine, canisters and throttle servo is installed.
Also the postman dropped off 9 new JR servos for the plane All XBus.

Also decided to add a little more support to the landing gear. Made a cable cross brace with compression springs Setup. It took a little doing and some lathe work for the parts but it worked out well. It add about an extra 35 lbs of load capability to each wheel. I just do not like or believe tension springs should be used on landing gear.

Managed to get the CG to work with out having to add weight. Batteries move close to motor bulkhead and the rudder servo moved up to the wing area and will changed to pull/pull for the rudder that will get the CG of 27% that will be a good starting point.
The changes were required because the plane ended up being 3 inches longer.
So a lot of work to get all this setup and installed properly trays and battery supports and sturdy tray for the rudder servo. Will take pictures as it comes along.