The instructions give a suggested control throw of 40 degrees each way on the elevators and 20 degrees each way for ailerons. The bracing wires above the sail are made from shirring elastic and are purely for decoration. The instructions give dimensions for these cutouts but a better job can be made by cutting to suit on final assembly.
Two pieces have to be cut out of the sail to clear the outer bearings. After inserting the spars in the pockets in the sail, the whole lot can be offered up to the fuselage and bolted into position. When the whole assembly is tightened up, this sloppiness will disappear. The holes should be carefully opened up until they are a slightly sloppy fit on the spar. Two plastic bearings are fitted onto the spar and it is essential to get these moving freely. The main spars come in two parts with a joint made by an overlapping tube and two bolts. This is not the neatest solution, but by far the most practical.Īssembly is completed by adding the sail and its supports. The simple answer to the problem of connecting everything up is to use three aileron extender Ieads fiited to the receiver with the socket ends extending just outside the pilot. There is plenty of room in the torso for the battery pack. a 6 channel Futaba receiver can just be fitted into the lower half of the pilot bv a little bit of bending and forcing. One tricky point in the assembly lies in assembling the pilot, complete with radio gear, connecting everything up, and fitting the pilot to the fuselage. For the review model, a well-used OS 10 was fitted and literally dropped straight in.
Two of the mounting holes are slotted and this, together with a little sideways bending of the support tubes, allow virtually any motor to be fitted. Two brackets at the rear of the fuselage accomodate the motor. If fitted, the throttle servo is attached to a plate on the bottom of the fuselage by means of servo tape and has a simple wire link to the throttle arm. From this, two pushrods extend forwards to the control links on the sail spars. The servos Tor aiieron and elevator are bolted to two brackets suspended from the upper fuselage tube and are connected to a simple mechanical mixer which bolted through this main tube.
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the kit was completed in about five hours plus the time taken to paint the pilot figure. the review kit was assembled in a somewhat different order and it soon became clear that this was making things rather more difficult. Experience would indicate that these should be closely followed. The sail is supplied ready stitched and merely needs the leading edge tubing fitted inside it.Ĭomprehensive stage-by-stage assembly instructions are supplied. this being supplied as five plastic riouldings.Ī simple silencer with universal mounting is supplied, together with a 7" x 5". Receiver and battery pack are accommodated inside the pilot figure. Construction of the basic fuselage is virtually complete apart from fitting the radio gear, motor and pilot. The structure is formed almost entirely from two sizes of aluminium tubing, a small size which is used for the fuselage framework, and a much larger size to support the nylon sail. it has a span of 1629mm (63.75") and is claimed to be to a scale of 1:4.5. obvious that someone would produce a model of this type of aircraft sooner or later and Kyosho have the honour of being the first manufacturer to do so (unless, that is, you know differently.).
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Powered hang gliders, or microlight aircraft, are currently very popular and represent one of the very few industries which appear to be enjoying full order books at the moment. Kyosho 'Hang Glider' Kyosho '09 Motorised Hang Glider' Written for 'RCM&E' October 1981.
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