Looks great! Can't wait to see it fly.

 

Quick update. After my trip last week I became ill so did do much during the week. Today I finally got to the point of needed to resolder the bullets on my castle ICE 75 speed controller I am using only to find my soldering iron broke! Instead of buying another cheapy soldering iron I am going to purchase a good weller temp controlled one. So its going to take some time to ship but That will give me time to practice with the sim Other than that the control horns have been installed and I finally got some collars for the wheels.

 

I have finished jakuta, however, I have not maidened it yet. I did take it out before Lee hit here to axi it around a bit. Glad I did cause I found several problems. Mainly the main gear needed better attachment and the tail wheel flopped around too much. The tail wheel was bad enough that ground handling was virtually non existent and will need fixing before the first flight.

 

Well the time finally came for the maiden. I know I have been slow to get there. The flight was longer than the video shows by a couple of laps. I edited it because my wife was looking for cars on the road and lost track of the plane. In any case It flies as good as anyone could have hoped for. Light and responsive in the air, it can float or be a rocket. Exactly what my design aim was!! Just one SMALL thing to improve
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/30051438[/vimeo]

 

As I promised some time ago I would release the sketchup files once I could see how it flew and since it flies great I am releasing the files. If anyone goes ahead to build this let me know and feel free to ask questions. Eager to see what people will do with this. The cnc files are set up for 1" foam with 1/8" bit feed rate is 300 ipm

Attached files HStab1_3D.cnc (138.4 KB)Â HStab2_3D.cnc (141 KB)Â Jakuta canopy.cnc (9.6 KB)Â Jakuta_Cowl_3D.cnc (662.9 KB)Â LandingGearForm.cnc (2 KB)Â elev1_3D.cnc (118.3 KB)Â elev2_3D.cnc (115.2 KB)Â jakuta2_SU7.skp (731.6 KB)Â jakutaFuse1_3D.cnc (1.7 MB)Â jakutaFuse2_3D.cnc (1.7 MB)Â jakutaWing1_3D.cnc (850.3 KB)Â jakutaWing2_3D.cnc (3.2 MB)Â jakutaWing3_3D.cnc (2.8 MB)Â jakutaWing4_3D.cnc (3.2 MB)Â rudder1_3D.cnc (121.6 KB)Â rudder2_3D.cnc (121.5 KB)Â woodparts.cnc (131.5 KB)Â woodparts.skp (61.5 KB)Â

 

Thanks you much share us awesome project!!!!

 

Thought I would post the second flight of Jakuta and it is much longer than the first I promise. This is the first time I have flown since the last jakuta flight so its been several months. There was a lot of trimming to do etc.