Durex V – THe Build,, Minnesota

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Durex V

Nice lines , large fillets.

Features

  • 2 wing rods 7/32 Dia  Going to use Nitrided ejector Pins
  • full flying stab
  • 2 piece wing
  • string operated spoilers
  • glued wire reinforced tip panel joiners
  • 1/8 x 1/4 spruce sub spar inner panel,  2 places
  • 1/8 x 1/2 spruce main spar
  • 1/8 x 3/8 spruce spar tip panel
  •  12 degree angle between inner panels  (big)

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Bag of misc ply parts
balsa sheet cut pieces
Packaging
3d Printed nose block, not sure I will use these
adding up wing panel lengths and fuse width as measured to confirm plan accuracy, plan lines are far to wide for my liking, so I will draw panel outline and all part locations separately in order to build this plane

Aug 26 2023

theres a symetry issue with the stab roots , be careful here
flipped one quite a difference
redrew the stab for the build and cut LE and TE material as well as 1/16 x 1/4 caps

Aug 27 2023

the box for the belcrank builds out to 1/2 inch think
the slot on the fuse top is 1/2 thick
yet the fillets at the fin to fuse is 1/4 inch, as well as the le of the fin

Has anyone ever built this plane, surely to god there’s one out there built from this short Kit, there would have been a huge benefit If it had been proto typed, and the fixes were sent in , I am going to build the fin with 1/2 LE material as well and cut a new fillet, another quirk is the bottom laser cut piece for the rudder was to short, by 1/4 inch the thickness of the post. the fuse top also has the 1/2 inch slot , a good pointer, a true Builders Kit !

It turns out there are missing ribs in both Kits, the root ribs of the tip panel, R8 on the plans , Kit supplier in Texas is aware but un responsive to request for parts, as well the plans are rather useless as the lines are so wide, dissappointed !

Oct 08 2023

the finished rudder and fin, need a lot of shaping
layout of stab set , I had previusely cut LE, TE, rib caps ,as well as the brass tubes.
the frame is built on shims, so spent some time getting those sorted
the tip, root, spar, LE and TE where the first to get glued together, the root is perpendicular to the spar, bevelled laser cuts need to be watched on the thinker balsa

Oct 19

work starts on the fuselage, I decided to cut the canopy sides out first
and then hold them in place with the corner triangle stock
Nose block shape, found some bandsawn sitka, this would was slated for use to rebuild De Havillands planes years ago in a Museum
cut teo halves, need to route out next for a 5 cell eneloop pack
  • 1/16 ss cable push rods in nylon housings
  • nose cone will be made out of wood block to suit battery

Dec 30 2023

Jan 13 2024

  • 3 great views of the fuselage, with hatch mod shown to access space between wings
  • significant rounding of corners is still needed to finish up most of the fuselage sanding detail
  • plane appears to be a keeper 🙂

Jan 27 2024

wings, as noted earlier some ribs are missing, also some slots are missing for spars as well some ribs are not accurate and have to be built up to suit the other, SEE Pics for particulars

Oct 13 Update 2024

Wings are coming together, two piece wings therefore significant work was needed to build joiner boxes and craft joiners. Underside of wing will receive final colors , black and neon orange stripe at join. Not sure yet the width of the stripe Thinking 11 1/2 in or 17 1/2 inch, 2 bays or 3 bays on each panel Top of wing will be red full length back to the spar, and white aft with a red spoiler.

Oct 19 2024

Spoiler arm and spoiler

Jig to set arms one will be like the other
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Jan 01 2025

2025 , well I have been at this build a while now, more then 1 year , time to get things done . Latest pics below of fuselage and stab, as well as rudder, wings have been covered, still need to install spoiler pull cords. Of course paint still needed on the fuse, standby