After a year or so of dithering and building other projects, I’m finally ready to start on a Slowly (for my wife.) I’ll be using 1/4″ Dow blue fanfold. The wingspan (before folding the wing) is about 36.5″ / 93cm.
The Slowly is designed by Christian Huber. Here’s the “Slowly” thread on RCGroups. You can find plans and helpful hints and discussion there. Which you may well need, because the plans themselves are in German.
Plans
Parts cut out
My granddaughter approves of the first test fit
The wing shape
Airfoil ribs hold the curve in the wing
The engine cover / cowling
Engine cover interior – 3 bulkheads hold the shape
Measuring the angle to cut the wing’s dihedral (20° per wing)
The first cut
The first wingtip, glued back on at 20°
Both dihedral wingtips in place
Yet another test fit
Getting ready to glue the 2nd half of the fuselage in place
Tail in place and some 2-tone paint
My son holds the airframe for inspection
Seeing how it looks on wheels
The very crude plywood-on-foam motor mount
The rear wheel is left over from somewhere or other. mounted on bent music wire epoxied into a small block of basswood.
The servos sit on top, right behind the wing
Finished motor mount and ESC placement. I added another piece of foam at an angle, and mounted the ESC on the side to help the side-to-side balance of the plane
Inside the engine cover
The little wedges sticking up fix the cover in place over the engine compartment
Finished engine cover
A pile of failed wheels
The servos sit on top of the fuse and poke thru. The Rx is on the cabin ceiling.
Test-fitting some fenders
Nearly finished!
Close-up of the wheel
Wheel / Axle construction
A coffee stir, glued to the leading and trailing edges of the wing, protects the foam from the rubber bands
The battery box, assembled from scraps of foam, ready to install
Push the battery in
A scrap of Velcro secures the battery in place
Pull on the ribbon to eject the battery
The battery compartment sets in here, at an angle