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  1. Kevin-Young

    IMAC All New 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 Competition Series Build Thread

    One thing that we have not shown a ton of but is very important is some of the cross bracing that we have added to the rear section of the fuse to ensure that the tail does not twist. There are lots of different ways of doing it and some are way more complex then what we use but we have found a...
  2. Kevin-Young

    IMAC All New 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 Competition Series Build Thread

    Ok, since this has been the week of hell with the website issues we have not had a ton of time to mess with the Giles but we have made a little more progress, mainly on the little detail kinds of things. When we are not searching out hosting companies or on hold with our current one (sat on...
  3. Kevin-Young

    IMAC All New 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 Competition Series Build Thread

    So one of our local customers ordered a MX2 competition Series last week and picked up the foam parts on Thursday night and the wood parts to complete the kit yesterday. Here is a picture of what he as done in less then 24 hours on the fuse. Not to mention that he has the stabs and rudder...
  4. Kevin-Young

    IMAC All New 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 Competition Series Build Thread

    So while I decided to take the weekend off, Al came to the shop and got the fuse sides glued on. So now the basic structure of the fuselage is really coming together. Picture #1A and 1B are some larger images of some previous posts Al showed how we went in and glued some of the cross bracing...
  5. Kevin-Young

    IMAC All New 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 Competition Series Build Thread

    We try! :D
  6. Kevin-Young

    IMAC All New 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 Competition Series Build Thread

    Now that we have all the parts laid out it is time to put it together. Personally I do the entire motorbox at once so I can just clamp everything together and this way I know everything is going to fit perfectly. On this build Al did it in a couple of stages which to me may have made it a bit...
  7. Kevin-Young

    IMAC All New 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 Competition Series Build Thread

    So Yesterday was the sit and watch glue dry kind of day With the fuselage sides pretty much done it was time to assemble the motorbox. When assembling the motorbox we use the Loctite Hysol 9462 epoxy. The hysol is awesome because you can fully assemble the motorbox and then just go back and...
  8. Kevin-Young

    IMAC All New 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 Competition Series Build Thread

    Since most of the plywood and balsa parts are cut out it is time to make an airplane! Before we really get started building we tend to get all of our scarf joints out of the way and any spots that we have to join the halves together such as the fuse top plate and fuse sides. Picture #1 is the...
  9. Kevin-Young

    IMAC All New 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 Competition Series Build Thread

    So to start off this build we figured that we would show you a bit of what I do to cut out the airplanes after I am done with the design work in AutoCad. These pictures are just some of the formers and such that I will end up cutting. In all it generally takes about a day to cut the plywood...
  10. Kevin-Young

    IMAC All New 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 Competition Series Build Thread

    Since we are really happy with how the testing went on the prototype 3.1m Radiowave Giles 202 we decided it is time to build a brand new one for us since the prototype was actually based off my last one that has mold on it from my water heater letting go in my garage (not exactly the show plane...
  11. Kevin-Young

    Sport JTEC RADIOWAVE 26% Pitts Model 12

    in our 40% stuff we are running 2 Thunder power 3800 2s packs and I think we get 6 flights before even considering charging. Honestly I think I would be looking at 2700-3800 2s packs for the pitts.
  12. Kevin-Young

    IMAC Jtec/Radiowave G 202

    Between myself and Jason Shulman we really could not feel much of a difference between the Giles and the MX2 which to be honest was a bit of a surprise to us. While I have always been a fan of the G202 I will admit that I did expect it to be not quite as good as the MX2 because of the...
  13. Kevin-Young

    Sport JTEC RADIOWAVE 26% Pitts Model 12

    using a weight aluminum weight calculator a .035 tube should weigh approx .27lbs for a 36" long tube and a .049 should be .38lbs The .035 is probably fine with the size of the airplane but for piece of mind it is probably worth the weight difference in going with the .049 so that is what we...
  14. Kevin-Young

    Give-a-way contest! Win a Hanger 9 Extra 300X

    I like airplanes!
  15. Kevin-Young

    First Look, ARS 300 From AJ-Aircraft.com!

    I was practicing with Andrew last week and I believe the ARS's are on the next container which is shipping towards the end of July.
  16. Kevin-Young

    IMAC JTEC 2.7m Extra 300CS

    Looking good!
  17. Kevin-Young

    DX9 Centering issues due to sub-trim

    I still like my idea better :laughing:
  18. Kevin-Young

    IMAC First Carden 124" Extra 300 Pro Build

    1) Yeah, that picture of the servo box will be just fine. There are a lot of different ways of doing it so you will get a ton of different opinions. 2) liteply will be fine 3) polyurethane glue works really well because it is sandable.
  19. Kevin-Young

    Exhaust Gas Temp

    I believe out the port it is in the 700-800 range. It certainly not above the melting point of aluminum or I would be out of a job.
  20. Kevin-Young

    Jtec Radiowave at Joe Nall

    Yeah the thunderbirds scheme is actually my MX2 that Jason Shulman flew in the Tucson Shootout last year, but really the only difference between that and the Giles is the wing. I am actually going to cut out a Giles wing here shortly and my adapt it to that plane depending on how some things...
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