Florida jets

Hi all, well not much to report at the moment, why I here you cry!, well folks I am in Florida for three weeks on hols. This is a great spot to party, lots and lots to do if you have lots and lots of money, any way I am going to visit a few models shop over here, so I will let you know how that goes, so its goodbye for now or as we say in Florida, " have a nice day " happy landings from the good old USA.

Hi all, well what a weekend, Saturday was the best day we have had in months, the water at our local lake was like a mirror, just perfect for flying off. The flyin attracted a large crowd of pilots even this late in the season, many models were on show small, large and big big big! models, thanks to every one for making it a great day. What about the Hawk, I hear you say?, well not much work done this weekend, however I hope to get a little done this week, a fellow jet jockey is making up a set of cables for the servos, thanks Dave. Well thats about it for now, not much happening at present in the work shop, happy landings.

Elevators part 2

Hi all, well back to building the hawk. In the last post I was trying to install the elevators, well this has be completed, see photos. The first step was to install the two 25kg servos onto a small ply plate already glued into the tail section, the two servos are first attached to two metal backets, which are then screwed to a set of wooden blocks. Next the two completed units are glued in place onto the ply plate, however excess is limited as I have mentioned before, therefore to overcome this problem, I made another plate, glued the servos in place, added additional ply strips to support the servo blocks and glued the finished unit into the tail with 2 ton epoxy. Next the holes in the horns had to be drilled out to fit the metal control rods, be careful when doing this!, the hole for the bolt must be a good fit, an over sized hole could cause flutter in the elevator. The next step is to drill out the four holes in the horns and add M3 nuts and bolts, easy to get at and provides a solid fit when installing the control horns.

The only mistake I made at this point was that the rods were slighty off line, however a little re-ajustment of one servo block will solve this problem.

The next job, add the wing and tail servos, however thats for the next post, heading off this weekend to another float plane event, I will post a few pics of this for you all next posting, also have a look at the hawk pic with the all the cups, this is the work shop's new coffee machine cup dispenser, thanks guys. O.K. thats it for now, happy landings.