Mini Telemaster
The laser-cut ply sub-assembly (above left) is glued to the right half of the fuselage before being mated to the left side. The landing gear assembly (above right) is a laminate of a ply cap placed over a landing gear mount plate epoxied into slots in the fuselage. The landing gear wires go into slots in the landing gear bracket and are held in place by laser-cut ply straps screwed into the ply cap. Each wing bolt mounting plate (below left) is made of very hard balsa and must
be tapered to blend in with the trailing edge of each wing panel. The elongated wing bolt slots are a nice touch because finding the wing bolt anchor plates becomes a fishing expedition when the wing is in position to be bolted in place. The elongated holes provide some visibility down into the fuselage. The wing is very well engineered for both strength and lightness by the use of diagonal truss ribs (below right) and vertical shear webbing.
tunately, it also concludes the manual, with the exception of three additional pages list- ing parts and hardware.
Finishing the model
As noted earlier, I chose UltraCote Lite “Transparent Red” as the base covering in
order to show the structure and accented the base color with white trim and black window panels. Prior to covering the model, however, all of the power train and radio components were installed, along with the provided wire pushrods to the rudder and elevator.
I had a spare R2006GS receiver for my Futaba T6HJ 2.4GHz S-FHSS transmitter so I decided to use what I had available and couple the radio to two Tower Pro SG 90 9- gram Micro Servos and the eRC 25A Brush- less ESC provided as part of the review. Not having used such a sophisticated program-
The wings are joined together after sheeting by epoxying the ply laminate wing spar into its slot. Small dowel locating pins (above left) align the center ply rib with both wing panels. The tail surfaces like the rudder shown here (above right) are a combination of laser-cut parts and strip wood pinned down and
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glued together over the plan. This construction makes the tail surfaces much lighter than solid sheet surfaces. The blue-headed “grip pins” are easy to use for this kind of assembly. They are available from Midwest Models and can be found at local hobby shops or on-line from major modeling retailers
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