Here is a picture of my travel box.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/modelaircraft/5878482200/
I intend to build something similar for F1D.
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "mkirda@..." <mkirda@...> wrote:
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> So I have things ready for the EAA minus my box.
> Am approaching this as a learning box, so cardboard. It was a monitor box about 9 or 10" high.
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> I have essentially a flat piece of cardboard the size of the inside and have glued 1/2" balsa as a kind of drawer slide already. Now I have to decide how to mount things to this piece.
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> For the wings, I'm thinking a base of 1/2" balsa, two pieces of 1/16" music wire going vertically, then some 1/8" by 3/4" with tissue tubes to slide onto the music wire (with some small cutout for the wing, maybe 1/8"). Two of these side by side, load a wing, add spacer, load wing, add spacer, rinse, lather, repeat. At the top, another 1/2" piece slides down onto the music wire with just enough clearance for the box.
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> Fuse/booms - foam pieces cut with slight wedge shape to hold down.
> Props - Foam with slits only.
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> Stabs - similar to wing.
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> Is this a reasonable approach for now? Seems quick, easy and reasonably secure for car travel.
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> Regards.
> Mike Kirda
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Received on Thu Mar 22 2012 - 14:34:32 CET