California Bidules

[lenb]

I also took the orange off the "inside" area and used some black to act as a dashboard /sun screen visor

[Stew2]

Keep it up Len and Scott will have to take the canopy off again!!!

[MarnochS]

Ha Ha,....I haven't glued the Canopy on yet for that exact reason......

I added a fiberglass Instrument Panel (no instruments yet).....and some black stuff....also some Carbon/Kevlar (UltraCote) to the visible fuselage formers in the cockpit.
Pilot mounting too....




Fuel system integration complete........Dubro 100 oz main tank and Sullivan S428 10 oz header tank. Safety wired gas connections with 0.020 wire.



Opted for running the spark plug leads thru the firewall...



Now I just need to go buy some more canopy glue.......

[lenb]

Awesome Scott...

Get some FOURMOST rubber U channel for around the cowl cut out to finish it off.

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...&P=SM&I=LXG853

[MarnochS]

I see they also have 1/8 inch U-channel .....that might be a possibility.......

[MarnochS]

Looks like about 10oz in the tail to balance at the wing tube........next stop ...Visalia Spring AeroTow.......



Took the easy way out on the Instrument panel - ......picture of the instrument panel for the languishing PayLoad Master 100 and color copier....the overexposure does a nice job of hiding the color mismatch.....I'll have to enlarge the gray background area a bit in the image......

[JimD]

Scot,

I would suggest the 1/4" U-trim considering the thickness of the fiberglass cowling.

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXG853&P=9

[Stew2]

One of the best things about the Bidule is that after 30 seconds you are totally relaxed with the airframe. After 2 flights you feel as if you have flown it since you began R/C. Beyond that it just gets more and more relaxing. The hardest thing about the Bidule is believing how slow you can fly it. Get ready to increase the tow angle and making about 1 1/2 turns to release altitude. It is a fantastic design. Enjoy the maiden, it will probably be the easiest one you have ever done!

[MarnochS]

Thanks for the positive vibes......looking forward to the maiden......

It did occur to me that I need to get my Triple-B...( Big Bad Bidule ) to Visalia ----unscathed, so out came the six layers of fiberglass (5.7oz) and the West Systems Epoxy.
This time I used some 404 filler along the strap overlays.



Some time with the belt sander....and



Scott

[MarnochS]

Two Thumbs Up.......


70 degrees of Flappy goodness. ...looks like Elvis is having fun....



Towing duty starts today....

Scott

[MarnochS]

California "Diversity"..............

[Xroadie]

Congrats on the maiden Scott!!

Who's Csmelak is that?... An Airworld model I assume?

Pete

[Tom Harper]

The Csmelak is John Ellias's with a Moki 250. I did the maiden of my 50% Ka-6 behind it. Really nice plane.

[Steve P]

New England redundancy...

Actually a Porter and a Decathlon were towing during this photo ;-)

[DennisB]

The yellow Cmelak was built by Rick Briggs about 10 years ago, as is typical of Rick it's spectacular. Rick sold it to John Ellias.

[MarnochS]

Apparently I was using the brakes.....only cosmetic wear so far...

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