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F16 for electric ducted fan
First we want to tha nk and congratulate you with your de cision in buying o ne 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 1 x 72mm
HIGH-END TECHNOLOGY
RC
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- Page 1 First we want to tha nk and congratulate you with your de cision in buying o ne of our Kits. The F16 puts together very easily so there is not much explanation needed. Just look carefully at the pictures .
- Page 2 Items needed to complete:. 4 ch. Computer Radio system w/ 2 servos. 1 Electronic brushless speed controllers 1 fan-units 6904 HETFAN or MF 480. 1 480 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.
- Page 3 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.
- Page 4 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.
- Page 5 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.
- Page 6 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.
- Page 7 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. 1 Make the straight steel rod. 2 Make a 90 degree bend. 3 Now make a new 90 degrees bend with about the thickness of the control horn as distance.
- Page 8 Before you install the servos make 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.
- Page 9 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.
- Page 10 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.
- Page 11 Take out the 4 small rectangular pieces from the bag with hardware and glue them in the back-ring of the fuselage with 5 minute epoxy. Look at the above picture. Mark the location of the plywood pieces a marker in front of the back ring as you need to drill holes through the exhaust-cone and the ply wood pieces.
- Page 12 Behind the joint a plywood block is glued in the fuselage. No drill a 2 mm hole approximately 25 mm behind the joint, this hole is for the bungee hook. Glue the bungee hook in the fuselage with 5 minute epoxy Vertical fin installation.
- Page 13 Read the installation instruction from your fan-unit first. Install motor and ESC first. You can either install the ESC inside the thrust tube or outside. We recommend to places the ESC behind the motor inside the thrust tube. Trim off the mounting tabs from the fan-shroud otherwise the fan unit will not fit.
- Page 14 Battery location, next picture you see the receiver antenna coming out the top end of the fin. You need to drill a hole here.
- Page 15 This page shows you how to apply decals ( our phantom is shown here) Cut the decal from the decal sheet leave the protective back on the decal. Trim of 10 mm from the protective back. Line out the decal on the area where you want to put the decal.
- Page 16 Use a bungee to start the plane. Before start is good to use some up trim. After start level the plane don’t attempt to turn, climb and trim the plane. The F16 can be flown very slow with a high AOT But never make turns with a high angle of attack (nose high position) You risk to drop a wing.
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