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Waco 40%
  
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Price with a DLE 222cc $3795 US » details on engine
Kit Description
- Fuselage Length: 108"
- Wing Span: (true scale airfoil)
- Top wing: 142 inches.
- Bottom wing: 127 inches.
- Wing Area: 6 052 square inches.
- Wing loading: 22.8 ounces / square foot.
- Cubic wing loading: 3.52. Values between 4 and 6 are sailplane/glider values.
- Cowl diameter: 16”
Recommended engines
- RCS/Moki 250 or 400cc, 5-cylinder radial engine.
- 150 or 240cc twin cylinder engines.
Assembly properties
- This
fuselage is unique
- All parts are laser-cut (see “Picture-Gallery” page)
- It is composed of a sandwich construction of Lite-ply and balsa (front section)
and Lite-Ply (rear section)
- Pre-cut top and bottom 1/4” Lite-Ply planking fit between both sides. You end
up with a very strong “box structure" and the rest is cosmetics.
- Fuselage assembling is nine hours.
- Impossible to build this fuselage crooked.
- We have incorporated in the fuselage design a system to assemble it using
encapsulated dowels and wood screws that serve to “join” the fuselage parts
together while the epoxy cures.
- These allow for perfect 90 degree parts-fit and
ensure a true and strait fuselage. A further modernization from us.
- All fuselage sides, top and bottom parts incorporate cavities in proper
locations and identified with numbers for easy insertion of side formers.
- Stringers on this design are for aesthetic purposes only.
- Stab panels are "plug-in” type for transport convenience. Proper stab incidence
is factory set and jig supplied.
- Stab mounted servos. Each elevator panel includes a “built-in” recess to
encapsulate each servo.
- Ample room and easy access for any radio installation, ignition system, fuel /
smoke tanks, inspections…
- “Plug-in” wing panels and detachable bottom cabane.
- All four wing panels + two cabanes are built over supplied jigs. Impossible to
build them crooked.
- All plug-in tubes are 6061-T6, 0.035” thou.
- All ribs are laser-cut for simplicity and accuracy.
- Wood struts are factory cut at proper angles for simple installation between
the wing panels.
- All critical attachment points are laser-marked or cut.
Instructions
- Building manual with large fonts
- CAD drawings
- Building pictures
- Engine box templates for RCS radial engines
- Explicit building sketches
- Full-scale alignment and shaping templates for critical area
- Info CD
- 36” wide
Plotter-printed CAD building plans and references
- DVD movie/video of the actual
building process from start to covering.
- One more innovation from us.
Most two-winged aircrafts have a top and bottom cabane. Top wing cabane alignment as always been a problem, not anymore!
- We supply a "Laser-Cut" Top Cabane Jig that eliminates any possible errors while
building and ensures that the six factory- welded main steel struts are in
perfect alignment.
- Don't be fooled: The Top Cabane does require a jig for perfect alignment, be it
a Waco or anything else.
- Special Cabane Jig Included.
| Left: With the Jig |
Right: Without the Jig. |
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- Using this jig, an innovation of Team amr, top cabane alignment is as simple as
1-2-3.
- “No one on this planet makes it this simple: Period”
Flying qualities
- One flying statement on this beauty has
been:
"It flies like a glorified Cub"
- With its low wing and cubic loading, it takes-off in a scale manner or you can
make it "jump" from short fields.
- Very predictable in turns and excellent wind
penetration. Stall speed is ridiculously low with no tendency to tip-stall.
- Aerobatics are like the real one: A real attention getter.
- Landings are
impressive, especially when you hear the "wind" from the struts and flying
wires…
- There is a saying: "There is nothing like a bipe" and it’s true.
- You may have put in the past your fascination aside to build a bipe…
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