[Trumpetman]

I've been watching Brent's Carden Pro going together (BBT's amazing Carbon Pro build) and I have finally received word that my new Dalton Extra 300 (Mark Leseberg edition) is waiting to be picked up at a border warehouse. I'll be driving down on Wed. to get it but in the mean time I wanted to start this build thread with a little show and tell. Not sure that the world needs another build thread but perhaps a little balance is needed since there are way too many Cardens and not enough Daltons being built LOL.

Specs:

-DLE 222 quad (formerly attached to Brad Egen's aircraft - thanks Brad!)
-JR radio, JR R922X Powersafe receiver running unregulated (2) 7.2 volt Lipo's
-Hitec HS-M7990TH servos (611 oz.-in. of torque at 7.4 volts) These servos also use the new Magnetic Rotary encoder rather than a potentiometer.
-Smartfly Ignition cutoff and Smartfly ignition regulators
I haven't decided on switches and batteries yet

The airframe will be built pretty stock with a bit of wing coring and a little bit of "cutty cutty". I will incorporate some CF triangulation in the fuse to increase torsional stiffness. I'll be following the recent trend in precision IMAC airframes of using a straight rudder (no counter balance) and 'shorty' ailerons (with one servo per aileron). I plan on adding one new feature that I have not seen used yet on any IMAC airframe but that will have to wait a bit (a bit of a teaser...)

I also have an interesting tail wheel that was made by Andrew Jesky's brother featuring a titanium rod and CNC'd tiller and wheel. Nice and light at 1.4 oz. and it has a bit of a bling factor as well.

I am not a machine like Trevor (some of us have to sleep) but I do intend to have this plane ready to go for the beginning of the upcoming IMAC season. Please jump in with questions or comments as we go along. It is such a great thing to have this amazing community of builders to draw information and inspiration from. The build table is cleared off, a fresh sheet of drywall is ready to go down... so lets get this thing built!

Sorry about the picture size, the next batch will be easier to see!

[always flying]

Sub' Thx for sharing!

[TBrum]

WOOOHOOO!! Sub'd, Gordon!!!

I'm excited to see this come together

When do you go pick the kit up at the border???

[pjp01]

Cool, the more builds the better. looking forward to seeing this one.

Jason

[machzx]

for us unwashed masses its like dream car garage or model airplane porn!!
im in
i hope to meet some of you guys some day and see these fly in person

[Trumpetman]

Originally Posted by TBrum

WOOOHOOO!! Sub'd, Gordon!!!

I'm excited to see this come together

When do you go pick the kit up at the border???

Heading down Wed. morning... Christmas come early!

[Scrappy]

Sub'd... I am looking forward to this, Gordon is an excellent builder and this should be a good one!

[Trumpetman]

So I made the 7 hour round trip to the border and managed to pick up the kit without much trouble (it would have helped me get across the border a little bit quicker if I had actually brought a receipt showing the rather stern border guards what this thing was worth but that is a different story LOL!!). After paying $58 for GST I was on my way. I'll start unpacking tomorrow but here is a taste of what Santa left under the tree HO HO HO

[Trumpetman]

So, like a 5 year old at Christmas I just could not wait until tomorrow to open those boxes! Here is what I found: LOTS OF PACKING!!

A well packaged kit, nicely laser cut formers, premium sheet and stick balsa, lightweight fiberglass parts with very few pin holes, a gigantic roll of plans, Main landing gear, wing and stab tubes and some nicely cut stab, rudder and wing cores. Everything arrived in good shape and I will check the inventory against the manual (not included but available on line ). Definitely a premium kit and I'm looking forward to getting started.

[TBrum]

Congrats

Can't wait to see it go together on the build-table