Mini Bird (oz4565)
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Mini Bird. Radio control sport model. Wingspan 770 mm. For .049 engine and 2 channels.
Planfile includes full build instructions.
Quote: "Before starting building: For a better finish and flight performance, take time in reading building instruction and refering to the plans, and assemble in good order and correctly and carefully.
Cut off each part with cutter or razor blade avoiding damage, particularly on the jointing cut out and slot, if necessary trim the parts for easier fitting.
When cemementing use thread, rubber bands, pins, cloth clips etc until cement sets. For forming and working, cutter, balsa plane and/or file are to be used. Wood tip wrapped with sand paper can also be used as a file.
How to Assemble the Wing: 1. Insert Ribs from W-1 through W-4 to the 3/16 square balsa and cement. 2. Join the left and right wing with W-9 and cement the leading and trailing edge balsa. 3. Cement 1/16 balsa to the top and bottom spars over the wing-fork. 4 Cement W-8 to the centre of W-4 and cement W-6 to both side. 5. Plank both side of the trailing edge. At this time, the distortion of the left and right wing should be removed. 6. Plank the centre of the wing. 7. Finish the overall wing with sand paper. 8. Mount W-13 with hinges and aileron horn; slot to accept aileron horn must be prepared beforehand.
How to Assemble the Fuselage: 1. Cement F-7 and F-8 to F-6 and mark the position of F-1 through F-5: pay attention to the correct material for the left & right. 2. Insert R-2 temporarily. Holding the left and right F-6 with clips or the like and cement F-5 through F-1 to the markings. Hold with rubber bands or the like until cement sets. 3. Correcting the distortion, cement F-10, F-11, F-12 and F-1 3 . 4. Cement F-15 to the bottom of F-14 projecting it by 3/16 in; this becomes a hatch. 5. When a beam-mount engine is used, cement 2 ply of F-16. 6. After finishing the overall fuselage by sand paper, insert and cement the jointed R-1 R-2 & R-3. 7. Cement the music-wire to R-4 with cloth and epoxy and insert it to the slot of F-10 and cement. 8. Cement S-1 and S-2 together and after finishing insert to the slot of F 6 and cement. 9. Mount aileron and elevator with hinges. 10. Finish the wing and fuselage with silk or film.
Features: Provided the engine runs properly, excellent stunt character-istic is available from this plane. Capable of doing almost all the stunt except those such as spin taxing, stall-turn, 4 point roll etc. by mean of engine control and rudder control."
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(oz4565)
Mini Bird
from Royal Marutaka
31in span
IC R/C Kit
clean :)
all formers complete :)
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Found online 29/06/2013 at:
http://www.hippocketaeronautics.com/hpa_plans/details....
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I am very grateful to OUTERZONE. Thanks to this site you can put to work and build models giving great initiative, inventiveness and creativity. I'm sending photos of the Mini Bird [more pics 004-006]. Also I leave these links where you can see these models in action !!, hope will be to your liking. Construction: youtube.com Flight: youtube.comMauricio - 01/07/2016
Hi, I have three images of the Mini Bird from Royal Marutaka [more pics 007-009]. I made some minor modifications to the control surfaces and added a cockpit. The plane is electric and has a flying weight of 450 gram. Thank you for your service, from the other side of the world - Tasmania, Australia.
ManfredWeihrauch - 04/07/2017
Hi, Thanks again for another great plan. Just completed and flown my rendition of the Mini Bird [main pic]. I got a set of laser cut parts from Philip at https://www.cloudmodels.co.uk/ which made the build super easy. I have used a scorpion 2208 1280kv motor and a 3S 1300mah flight pack. With this setup it flies really well tracking beautifully and axial rolls. My new favorite plane. Thanks again for the great selection of plans, and photos to follow. Regards,
Jono - 19/10/2021
Hallo Mary, hallo Steve, the "Mini Bird" is a small RC model made by Marutaka, which was distributed in the 1970s in Germany by the company Simprop. It looks like a "Mini Stick". My Mini Bird was powered by a 1.5 cc Cox engine. The model flew quite fast, but was also very noisy. After 40 years I restored the model and added new electronics and an electric drive [pics 010-013]. It flies like it used to, but almost noiselessly. Many greetings,
Bernhard Dittmann - 21/03/2022
Hello Mary, hello Steve, here are some outdoor pictures [015-017] of the Mini Bird. Many greetings,
Bernhard Dittmann - 21/03/2022
How do you put W-9, it's impossible. They can take the time to do it better.
Emi - 26/10/2022
Widen the spar slots for W1and W2 to take W9. You will have to frame up both wings and join with W9 then add the 1/16th webs before sheeting the leading edge, you might leave the bottom sheeting till last to let you get access to the front of spars to glue W9 and the webs in place, weird assembly sequence though.
Douglas Babb - 26/10/2022
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