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Mini Hotliner

Here is a project I did a while back. My uncle was cleaning up his workbench and as a fellow RC modeler he gave me some random wings and fuselages. One of the wings was about the size of the wing on the Slipso400, a small hotliner I found on this RCGroups thread: Slipso400.

With a few modifications I managed to get it to be about the same wing. For the ailerons, I decided to try a linkage which keeps the servo in the middle of the wing and joins both aileron surfaces to the motion of one servo.

The fuselage was built off of the plans provided in the RCG thread. The bulkheads are lasercut from 3mm plywood. The side walls, top, and bottom are 6mm depron.

I wanted to make the tail a little stiffer so I shaped some thin pieces of balsa to the profile of the tail. I left a small space in between the two pieces to run a plastic tube to route the push rod for the elevator. After putting in the servo and gluing it all together, I rounded the edges with some sanding.


After putting on the top piece, I sanded some more. Then, I fiberglassed the whole fuselage, tail, and horizontal stabilizer. After that, more sanding... Then, I drew up a paint scheme and taped it off for spray painting. It turned out pretty good.


Now about the flying... I put in a 2826 2200kv motor with 6x4 APC propeller powered by a 1000mah 3S battery. After many attempts, I could not get it to fly. It was always very twitchy which leads me to believe it was tail heavy (probably should not have put the balsa in the tail). And after breaking the motor firewall on of the attempts I gave up. Now it the Slipso400 is just a shelf queen...
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