Scale 112” - Taylorcraft by HeyLuc & Snoopy.

[Snoopy1]

I am glad to tell you heyluc has several but only had the opportunity to hear one and I must say it is pretty good.

 

[AKNick]

This is GREAT!!!

 

[Snoopy1]

Ok we are starting to make some progress, well I should say heyluc is making progress this is the first of 34 sheets that will be cut. We have booth been buying parts, plywood , batteries and all kind of stuff for the build. It is starting to feel like we are going to build a plane now.

 

[Snoopy1]

Hopefully you guys are a little patient with us. It is flying season right now, and we plan to start building in the fall, at least I do.

 

[Snoopy1]

It has been raining for the last couple of days So some time to do some building on the plane. The square blanks for the firewall have been cut. So 2 layers of carbon cloth about 6 oz has been laid up on the plywood. It’s under vacuum to get the best adhesion with minimum epoxy. Will see how it looks in few hours.

 

[TonyHallo]

That looks to be a rather large piece, are there 4 pieces?

 

[Snoopy1]

That looks to be a rather large piece, are there 4 pieces?

It’s four pieces with carbon on one side of each. then 2 of the pieces will be glued together to make one firewal, so you end up with a carbon layer on the inside and on the out side. They still need to be cut to shape to fit the cowl and plane.

 

[Snoopy1]

We have made a start on the plug for the cowl.

 

[BalsaDust]

It has been raining for the last couple of days So some time to do some building on the plane. The square blanks for the firewall have been cut. So 2 layers of carbon cloth about 6 oz has been laid up on the plywood. It’s under vacuum to get the best adhesion with minimum epoxy. Will see how it looks in few hours.View attachment 121408

Look forward to seeing how this looks out of the bag. I reckon it should look similar to the stuff EF uses in their airframes now though they don't use Carbon Fiber. Instead they just use fiberglass and tint the resin black as it just looks better.

 

[Snoopy1]

Well the cowl is sheeted and ready to have a couple of layers of glass wrapped onto it, just to improve the strength. Slowly it is getting built.