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| The wonderful WEEVIL Jan 10, 02 |
| FROM THIS PAGE YOU WILL FIND PICTURES AND LINKS TO MANY PAGES FORMING A DETAILED PICTORIAL ON HOW YOU TOO CAN BUILD YOUR VERY OWN WEEVIL. This plane can give you the characteristics of a trainer or a stunter depending on how you set up your throws. This is my own biased opinion, obviously, feel free to let me know how your's works out. As they say, a pictures speaks a thousand words so here are a few for you to take a look at. Click on any thumbnail to see a full sized picture. |
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| The weevil has: 48" wing span/ 20 " root chord/ 6" tip chord/ 2" control surf/ 8 ounce tank/ 32.5" fuselage/ 1 7/8" spar height, tapering to 1" tips/ semi dihedral wing/ It will require: 4' by 4' sheet coro/ 32 1/2" rain drain/ spar 1 7/8X 5/16"/ 4 servos, radio gear/ computer radio/ 8 ounce tank/ 3/4" ply firewall/ C/A glue, goop/ 0.40-0.60 2 cycle/ assorted goodies/ etc. |
| Now for the sorted details, how to construct my little beauty. If I had any idea the amount of work it would have takne to build this site, I may not have started it! click on the text or pics to go to that page of the construction |
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| The gear I used to build the Weevil is as follows. Futaba 6XAS radio- O.S. 0.46 FX- 3 Futaba standard servos- 1 micro servo- (I had one kicking around for throttle, no real reason.) 1 great planes 8 ounce tank- 3 control horns, Dubro- 4 bicycle spoke push rods- 3 small pieces of scrap 3/4" ply- medium CA glue, goop- coro, screws, gutter, asst hardware, cable ties, etc. |
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| Here's a quote I copied from the rc combat forum from Stef in South Africa, Hovernut, How you could have thought it wouldn't go far, I don't know. That front to back delta design of your's sparked the interest of many spadonians. When I first saw it, I knew imediately that I would have one soon. As for the maiden flight, I was surprised, it's a very stable flyer. I also found that it is very sensitive on the elevons, especially on aileron input. I used the delta mixing function on my JR642XP radio. Travel adjustments are all 100% while ail D/R is 55% and el D/R is 65%. I flew mostly at 30% throttle into the 15-20 km/h wind and 15% down wind. Downwind was still faster than into the wind. Click here to go to that page |
| I am looking for input from all those who have built the Weevil, If you have built one could you please drop me a line at [email protected]. a short flight report or your opinions, good or bad would be greatly apreciated. A picture would make my day. Thanks. |
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