You guys are just alright. Thank you for the compliments. Definitely moving along with it.
David, awesome idea and yes it would be totally worth the effort. Not that much effort really. I remember a few years back, my son and I were flying "Fun 51's". Some of you may remember them. Tower Hobbies nitro powered profile Mustangs. Add a O.S. SF 46 with a tuned pipe, and that baby hauled the mail. They have an access hatch in the bottom of one wing where the rx. battery and rx. was stored. Kind of a pain to pull the hatch everytime a charge was needed. But a small price to pay. I eventually ran a charge plug outside the hatch for easier accessibility.
Tanner however is 100% correct. Hitec protocol will not allow more than one operational rx. for radio set up. Not with the Optima 7 and 9 rx's that is. I have been considering my options on the top wing servo's as I have moved through this build. About the only option I have short of changing radio systems, (and that ain't gonna happen) is to route aileron servo leads from the rx. in the fuse up to the top wing. But I do have some ideas. I was thinking of running the servo leads up from the lower wing "inside" a passage way built into the interplane struts. Since they will get a laminated layer of balsa on both sides, it would be easy enough to run an access passage up to the top wing. Totally concelled. It would mean I will need to plug in (4) aileron servo leads everytime I put the lower wing on. But, it would solve having to run the leads up through or near the hatch and having them run past the cabane struts. Either way, I'll have to use longer extensions to make the distance to the top wing aileron servos. Just a first thought, but I'm open to suggestions.
Last (top left) wing is about 90% framed up now. Just need to place the sheeting, cap strips and bolt down blocks. Photos of today's progress to be posted later.
