ExAir Axon Build - Timelapse

by jhitesma | March 16, 2013 | (3) Posted in Projects

I started building this about a year ago when I first saw Ed's series on RCGroups.  I've been scouring my local walmarts for the past year looking for carbon arrow shafts, but apparently archery isn't big enough around here for them to carry them seasonaly or otherwise.  So I finally decided to just go with a wooden dowel for the spar, but the wodden dowels I find around here are generally horrible.  I was able to find a good oak one eventually - but I'm still a little worried about the wing since it seems to sag at rest even with the oak dowel.  If I balance it on dowels under the wing the weight of the plane takes out any sag so I'm hoping the wing will be ok as is.  Otherwise all that's left is to fine tune the CG and get her in the air!

My 2 year old daughter painted the wing for me.  Fingerpaints work great on a taped up peice of foamboard - and if it doesn't come out well you can just wash it off with some water :)  She's really enjoyed this build and has declared the wing to be hers.  Now that it looks like a plane she keeps begging me to "Fly the plane, make it go real high!".  Hopefully that will happen later today or tomorrow.

Since I started the build over a year ago before I even had the camera I use to do time lapse stuff like this I didn't catch some of the early steps in the build (like covering most of the boards with tape, or building the fuselage) and I missed a few of the final steps since I can't really do video after my girl goes to sleep and that's when the bulk of my build time is.  But I still managed to capture a good bit of it.

Really looking forward to getting this one in the air.  Just nervous over the wing and it being my first pusher, first aileron plane, and 2nd plane overall.  

COMMENTS

wingnut on March 20, 2013
Gosh I wish I could build that fast.
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stevevm on March 21, 2013
I loved watching the quantity of beer keep going down while he builds.
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ExAir Axon Build - Timelapse