Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

[dhal22]

Just wow……

 

[TonyHallo]

Thanks David.

 

[TonyHallo]

Assembly continues.

 

[Snoopy1]

The 2 main landing gear struts do they just slip into block of wood with a hole into the wing and are bolted in place.
went back to page 33 to see how you did it looks like a block of wood sunk into the foam. Is there more inside the wing holding the gear.

 

[TonyHallo]

There is a flange that screws to the block that clamps the struts in position. You can zoom in and see them in the photo.

 

[TonyHallo]

Had the Cherokee at our club meeting today. It weights a little more than I hoped for, will post weight results tomorrow.

 

[pawnshopmike]

Had the Cherokee at our club meeting today. It weights a little more than I hoped for, will post weight results tomorrow.

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Absolutely gorgeous.

 

[AKNick]

wowza!

 

[Snoopy1]

That is one beautiful plane.

 

[TonyHallo]

The weights were as follows;
Right Main 15.382#
Left Main 15.494#
Nosewheel 3.814#
Total 34.7@ without batteries.
Using two 1800 ma 3 cell batteries for the redundancy buss and one 850 ma four cell for the starter. This will add another 11 ounces bring the weight to 35.5 pounds. That makes the cubic loading 10.5 and summing moments puts the cg at 5.84 behind the leading edge, this is with the batteries in front of the plane.
Using the the CG calculator assuming the stabilator is high efficiency the static margin is 9% to 10% range so I think I'm good. Stall speed calculates to 30 MPH.