Scratchbuilt He-162

[Shotgun06]

I finaly completed my He-162 and it is now ready to fly. I built it from my own plans that were based on a small 3 view drawing found in a book. Initial goal was not to make it full scale and there was no landing gear. As time was going through the build , I decided to add retracts, went from glow power to electric, added a cockpit...
Wingspan is 43" and about the same lenght (I just don't remember..;)), it is powered by a 3" Haoye fan with 4s lipos. It has all working control surfaces including rudders with all internal control linkages for the tail. It weight 4.1 lbs ready to fly.
I just hope it is going to fly well...not too sure about that part.
Alain

[Wayne_K]

Awesome. Hope it flies as good as it looks. Please let us know.

W

[static80]

Very nice. Good luck with the maiden.

[buffythesaint]

Very nice:-). Just get lots of ground speed up first, before rotation. No prop wash remember.
You need to add a pilot to that nice looking seat.

[PurgatorY]

Very Nice indeed! All the best for the maiden.

Trev

[Cougar429]

Absolutely beautiful. Much surprised by the weight with retracts.

Have to agree with buffythesaint. You just need a pilot smiling back out the canopy at you to complete the picture.

[Shotgun06]

It is really lightly built but very strong. All the control surface are built-up and sheeted with 1/32 balsa. The fuselage is strip planked and the wings are fully sheeted. All in contest grade balsa. No foam or fiberglass on this one. The retracts are mechanical but are actuated with just one servo for all. The gear doors are mechanically linked to the gears.

Alain

[pogo]

Beautiful "Salamander", Alain :)- wonderful job. Looking at it, you may actually have a lot of "up" authority from the "jet" wash over the top of the elevators. Best of luck for the maiden and please let us know how it goes.
Tom

[ken park]

That Rocks! - Wow good luck with the maiden.

It still drives me nuts the Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa had two HE-162 sitting in the storage area in pieces. I do believe they horse traded one for a real ME-109. It would be so cool if they would restore/fix the one they got left and put it on display with the ME-163.

[Shotgun06]

There is one in France that has just been restored and all the pictures of the restoration are online. That has been actualy helpful when I was trying to figure out the geometry of the main gear retraction mechanism as they took pictures of pretty much everything from all angles. That is also where I took the inspiration for the "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT" plug that is in the intake of the jet engine.

[Max]

I finaly completed my He-162 and it is now ready to fly. I built it from my own plans that were based on a small 3 view drawing found in a book. Initial goal was not to make it full scale and there was no landing gear. As time was going through the build , I decided to add retracts, went from glow power to electric, added a cockpit...
Wingspan is 43" and about the same lenght (I just don't remember..;)), it is powered by a 3" Haoye fan with 4s lipos. It has all working control surfaces including rudders with all internal control linkages for the tail. It weight 4.1 lbs ready to fly.
I just hope it is going to fly well...not too sure about that part.
Alain


Beautiful work Alain!

Is that built of foam or built-up Balsa?

[Shotgun06]

It is all built-up balsa. Fuselage planked, wings sheeted and even the control surfaces are built-up. The only fiberglass part is the canopy frame. No foam.

Alain

[Shotgun06]

Here's some pictures that might give you an idea of how it is built. I made a full build thread of this plane on another forum a while ago but the forum got shot down. I have the pictures somewhere but not where I am at the moment...

Alain

[Max]

Wow!

Its obvious you put a lot of effort into that.

Superb!

I'd like to see those build pictures someday.;)

[j-c terrettaz]

Congratulations , very nice to see a scratch build for a change..
Bonne chance for the maiden.
J-C