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  1. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    this is the servo arm I am making , one for each servo of course
  2. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    Good question, its a work in progress, the first thing was to make sure all the geometry was correct, which it is now I will make the servo arm out of aluminim and will be using oilite brass for bushings in all moving parts.
  3. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    I decided to change the elevator setup, with the two servos up front going to a pushrod, then a belcrank then to the elevator, I found there was too much slop in it, so now one push rod, no belcrank and the servos are now behind the rear seat out of view. and a picture of the operating table...
  4. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    Stop it my head will swell up and I won't be able to get out of my office , but thanks anyway LOL
  5. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    working on the rear instrument panel mounting , aluminum welding (brazing)
  6. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    Sorry for no post lately, been doing some landing gear correction and so in it, I forget to use the camera , soon soon
  7. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    Thanks man, but you know after looking closely to the two pictures, I will redo the top and push button, not pleased at all with it
  8. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    I had to redo the joy stick top, Ray noticed it was all wrong, so with the help of his picture of the original I redid it , the first picture is the wrong handle, the second is from Ray being the real one, and the last is my attempt, I know , not the best rendition
  9. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    joy stick trial fit, and the seat still needs work on the vinyl, also aluminum tubing for the instrument panel frame and an aluminum test weld bracket, looks good
  10. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    There is no penalty with batteries, , if you normally use one battery as an exemple, then you would also use the same battery for everything except the receiver which only needs maybe a small 500 ma battery
  11. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    Here is the fiber optic installation in the 33% Edge I'm getting ready. the two yellow units are the two failsafe switches on only one toggle switch. The blue unit is the FO decoder and the green one is the encoder, you can barely see the Sbus decoders below , here i am using only two since this...
  12. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

  13. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    Its official guys, received my invitation for Top Gun, hope to make everyone here proud
  14. Forgues-Research

    Sport The Behemoth Yak gets a Behemoth Brother/129" Pilot Yak (2)

    That was pretty awesome , congratulation on a beautiful airplane, good flying , love it
  15. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    some of you may remember how much of advocate for electronic safety I have been through the years, and you may remember also I have designed Fiber Optic servo extension which I have posted here and a few other places, Now just to let you know I have been trying to use only one fiber optic cable...
  16. Forgues-Research

    Fiber Optic servo extension

    I have been trying to decode all 16 channels with only one fiber encoder and one decoder and one fiber optic cable for many years now, and today I have succeeded, I'm on top of the world. lol
  17. Forgues-Research

    Sport The Behemoth Yak gets a Behemoth Brother/129" Pilot Yak (2)

    Well done , that is the type of news we all like to hear....
  18. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    man your way too kind, but this is for Top Gun, and guess what, they are way better then me, but the fun for me is doing it . again thanks for the kind words...
  19. Forgues-Research

    Sport The Behemoth Yak gets a Behemoth Brother/129" Pilot Yak (2)

    good luck, and remember the words you wrote on your signature "Gimmie the sticks, I'll fly it"
  20. Forgues-Research

    Scale 50% Dalotel 165

    mad probably, skills , don't know about that lol
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