High-End Technology F16 Manuel utilisateur
F16 for electric ducted fan
HIGH-END TECHNOLOGY RC
First we want to thank and congratulate you with your decision in buying one of our Kits.
The F16 puts together very easily so there is not much explanation needed.
Just look carefully at the pictures .
This in not a plane for beginners, and you should have some experience with putting
together ARFs.
DATA:
Winspan: 640 mm
Length: 990 mm
Weight: 900-1100 gram
Ducted fans 1x 72mm
Items needed to complete:.
4 ch. Computer Radio system w/ 2 servos.
1Electronic brushless speed controllers
1fan-units 6904 HETFAN or MF 480.
1480 size brushless motors e.g. EDF 2W , 3W, 4W or 2W20
Lipo batteriy
5 or 30 minute epoxy
micro balloons
CA Glue w/ accelerator
Velcro.
Standard tools:
Drill or Dremel tool
Plyer/cutter
Scissor
X acto Knife
Soldering iron.
Don’t get confused about the pictures in the pictures used in this manual we
use 2 versions of the F-16 the Thunderbird version and the white version which
we laid out ad the red/white and blue demo version.
Fit the hardwood wing joiner in the fuselage and wing and see if the wing fist nicely.
Start by gluing one wing panel with 5 or 30 minute epoxy. First apply some epoxy
inside the wing joiner slot in the fuselage. Press the wing joiner inside the fuselage.
Remove excess epoxy. Now apply epoxy in the wing joiner slot in the wing root and
also apply epoxy on the wing root. Slide the wing over the hard wood wing joiner and
press the wing against the fuselage. Make the leading-and trailing edge align with
the fuselage. Remove the excess epoxy with a clean cloth and cleaning alcohol.
When the epoxy has cured you can do the other wing panel the same way.
After the wings the wings are glued one. It is possible to cover the joint between the
fuselage and wings with a 3-4 mm wide white trim. (Oracover).
Assemble the servo-brackets,there’s a high-side and a low side on the bracket, so
the sides are different. The small edge on the Servo tray should be on top. The
bottoms of the sides are almost square.
Next to the servo bracket on the right side picture you see the pivot-block and servo
bracket, they are in the approximately location. First glue the Pivot-blocks on both
sides inside the fuselage with 5 minuteepoxy.
Mark the position for the Pivot-rod ( 2 3 mm steel rods one for each side) 62 mm
from the end of the fuselage . Drill a little oversized hole in the middle at the marked
location. We recommend a 4 mm hole. Wait before you glue the pivot rod in place.
Put some tape on the fuselage side as in the picture and mark the location for the
servo “hatch”size is approximately 35 X 12 mm. the opening should be big enough to
let your servo go through. Before you cut the opening be sure that the servo bracket
will fit behind. Now cut the opening with a cutting wheel on your dremel or use a
sharp knife.
Important:
Before you glue the plywood control horn in place with 5 minute epoxy treat the
surface and holes of the plywood control horn by “soaking” it with thin CA glue.
This will add additional strength to the control horn.
This applies for all 4 plywood control horns.
Mark the location and size of the control horn just after the pivot tube on the bottom.
Now cut out the slot with a sharp Xacto-knive or use a dremel tool. Do not glue the
control horn in place yet. This should be done after you have made the push rod.
Before you glue the servo brackets in place, trial fit your servo (min. 2kg torque with
metal gear), 2 micro servos are necessary. Also pre-drill the holes for the servo
fastening screws. Also make the pushrods first with a z-bend at each end. How to
make this z-bend is explained on page 7.
Put tape around the root of the elevon and the side of the fuselage.
Put the main wings on some brackets and make sure the main wings are level.
The elevons should have a +/-10 degrees negative angle. Both tips of the elevons
should have the same height from the building board.
After the epoxy has cured you can remove the tape from the elevons and fuselage.
Note that the trailing edge of the elevon sticks out approximately 20 mm from the
fuselage side.
This picture shows the steps how to make a Z-bend.
Steps are from left to right. You need 2 ordinary pliers.
Practice first on a scrap steel rod.
1Make the straight steel rod.
2Make a 90 degree bend.
3Now make a new 90 degrees bend with about the thickness of the control
horn as distance. As in the picture
4Now twist the vertical end horizontal as in the picture and the z-bend is
ready.
Before you install the servosmake sure the control horn is placed in the middle position.
Do this with your radio and receiver.
Glue the servo brackets in place with 5 minute epoxy. Wait till the glue is cured.
Stick the Elevon on the pivot rod (with the final installation of the Elevon us should add
the supplied Washer to act as a spacer between the elevon and fuselage.) The plywood
control should not be glued yet in the elevon.
Make a Z-bend on the supplied rod as explained on the previous page.
Insert the pushrod in the plywood control horn.
Mark a slot where the pushrod will enter the fuselage. This slot will be located close to the
edge of the fuselage. (See next page)
Mark the position of the servo pinion (servo control-horn) on the fuselage.
Now transfer this position with a marker on the pushrod (elevon in app 3 degrees up position.)
Notice the 2 opposite z-bends, this is what you pushrod should look like.
Cut the slot with a dremel tool or a sharp knife. At the marked location see above
picture.
Take out the plywood control horn; secure the servo to the servo bracket. Cut the
servo horn so that only the hole nearest to the servo middle stays on. Now insert the
Z-bend in the servo horn and install the servo horn on the servo. Run the pushrod out
of the fuselage as shown in the top right picture.
You should now add the supplied Washer to act as a spacer between the
elevon and fuselage.)
Now insert the z-bend in the plywood control horn. Glue the horn in the Elevon with
thin CA glue or 5 minute epoxy Now do the other elevon the same way.
The Gap over the servo bracket can be covered with white vinyl decal or a piece of
white iron on covering.
Tape the canopy frame to the fuselage so that all sides are flush.
Drill first a pilot hole 1 -1.5 mm through the front frame (inside look at picture). Now drill a 3
mm hole same size as the supplied hard wood dowel. Push the dowel in the drilled hole, let it
stick out approximately 2mm, and glue with 5 minute epoxy thickened with some micro-
balloons. (See picture)
In the left picture you see the dowel coming out the canopy-frame. In the right picture you see
rear-end of the canopy frame, we have supply two magnets. One magnet should be glued
inside the rear-end (back) of the canopy-frame with 5 minute epoxy the other magnet should
be glued inside the fuselage straight under the magnet in the canopy frame.
Attention: Before you trim the edges from the clear abs canopy trial fit it several times
and assure that it has a good seat (fit). Make sure is does not put stress on the canopy
frame.
Now you can glue the clear abs canopy to the canopy frame with 5 minute epoxy. Look
at the above picture.
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