Chuck “Yeager” Darwin, articulated Waco pilot build

I’m getting a new pilot installed in the cockpit of my Dynam Waco biplane.

My wife got me a Charles Darwin finger puppet for my birthday and he looked like the perfect pilot.

I started by cutting a hole to seat a 5gram servo under the pilot.

I pulled off his coat.

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I slit him up the back and removed some stuffing, as well as a magnet from his head.

 

 

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I epoxied one end of a bamboo skewer into a servo arm,

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then I glued the servo arm inside his head.

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I screwed two more servo arms together. One fits onto the servo, the other is screwed to it and has the bamboo skewer epoxied in place.

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The whole business goes up his shirt, the coat goes back on top, and the servo gets glued in place in the pilot’s seat.

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The servo plugs into the gear channel, which I mix with the ailerons in the Tx. And viola.

 

 

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