Charlatan

The success of the little Boxing Clever got me all inspired to have a bash at 'proper' retro aerobat, but this time spanning 56", and sporting trike retracts and a 5S li-po up front.

A little sketch....

Followed by some Profili generated aerofoil profiles. NACA 0012 being the foil of choice.

Getting the crayons out.....

Tonight I made a start by chopping out the wing ribs.

I need to buy lots of hardware for this one - motor, ESC, retracts, radio gear, etc., so it looks like a major shopping spree at Weston Park show next weekend. All donations gratefully received.....

tim

hi Tim,

following this as one of my interests is retro stuff, and electrify.

first glance reminds me of Wolfgang Matt's Superstar, of which I have a mould to make a fibreglass fuselage.

shaun

Hiya Shaun!

Yup, it's inspired by the Superstar/Capricorn era.

Oddly, my own Superstar, built in 1975, was my last ic model. Had a Veco 61 up front. I smashed to pieces on the runway at the Ashbourne club, and went off sulking for 25 years.

tim

skulk over now then eh,

am a great fan of the retro stuff (loved my Curare) will be following you on this one,

shaun

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A purpose built electric aerobatic design in that size ticks all the boxes for me, although if it is to be a published plan I reckon the option of fixed u/c might suit many people.

Brilliant Tim. I look forward to following your thread.

Thanks Gents!

I really do have to get hold of a set of retracts at Weston next weekend so I finalise lots of details, not to mention some 1/4 square spruce wing spars.

Mind you, I have this afternoon cutting out the fuselage formers!

tim

Edited By Tim Hooper on 14/06/2015 19:57:10

Interesting choice of model name Tim, always was a fan of models from this era I'm sure this will be very popular, don't go buying all the 1/4 spruce before I get my hands on some as well. Linds

See? Industry!

It would be good with a modern 40 and tuned pipe as well I would imagine.. Following

Following Tim

So what with having no spruce to hand, I had no excuses but to start on the fuselage instead!

Here are the two sides, with F2, F3 and all the internal bracing in place.

The sides joined together.

Whilst at the Weston show today, I managed to get this little gem from Rapid RC. This is the same spec motor as I use in the Clean Sweep 60, so it should be just right for the Charlatan.

Test-fitting all the bits in the nose. The Eflite trike retracts came from Nexus.

The fuselage made it back to the workshop, where it was flipped upsidedown, fitted into the SLEC jig thingie, and glued up properly.

The wing plan was traced, and then the tracing used to build the wing panel itself on. Those spruce spars look the business!

There is something unnaturally tidy about your workshop Tim OCD maybe nice trad build though.

Very sleek indeed.

What a disgustingly clean and tidy workbench!!!

My thoughts exactly, on both points

No sign of blood either. Probably not a human builder

Martyn

There is something about Tim's build photos that makes one want to go out and build a model to his design.........

.........I think it's the shadowless lighting that reveals all and hides nothing.