It is important to modify the horizontal stabilizer if you want to do aerobatics.Since the
up/down steering surface goes almost over the whole stabilo, it can get stuck under
a little stress / bending while flying. You can check this yourself while bending the stabilo
a little and try to move the steering surface up and down. You will notice it wont work that easy!
To solve this you can make a cut in the underside of the stabilo and glue in a carbon rod to
make it much stiffer. This will prevent the stabilo from bending while flying.
the pictures above show you how to do it!
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Cutting out the space to place the pan/tilt servo.
If you are not using a pan/tilt mechanism but only a fixed cam we recommend
you cut out a horizontal flat space. Glue in a piece of Birch Plywood
(specially for modelling) and mount the camera bracket on this piece for stability!
Place the camera mount cut canopy and fix the camera
This is for the Fixed cam position only!
We continue with the with the pan/tilt version!
Carefully cutting a hole in the canopy so the top of the servo
will fit trough!
Now you can see how it will look!
Placing the steering servo's and glue them tight!
Cutting some space for the receiver and battery
Placing the battery on top of the receiver. Make sure you have some space to
move the battery a bit so you can balance the plane on its centre of gravity!
Installing the 10mW TX Installing the 500mW TX
Connecting the speedcontroller / esc
100% done
NOTE:
if you are using a OSD then it is better to place the current sensor
in the belly of the plane. Just cut a long square in the underside|
(there is enough room). Place the curent sensor and place the GPS
unit in the front on top of the battery. Also move the video transmitter
to the back of the plane and place it between the motor and the camera.
This to get a good center of gravity for your plane and balance!
to check the balance of your cloudsfly.
just put the tip of your fingers beside the fuselage on the wings,
where the carbon rods are located. if the plane is in balance or just a little
nose heavy, it is ready for flight..
if not, adjust the location of the lipo battery a bit forward or backward untill
the plane is in balance...