Built a Spad Debonair with a lot of modifications:

No square PVC pipe so built a Corro Fuse
Used a RNAF Wing Design
Used Wire L/G

Build pics to follow once I get over this 200 KB rider

So, 4 mm corro, marked out & scored on fold lines. A firewall from 10 mm Ply with blind nuts fitted for engine mount, with 2 more 10 mm formers. All these had a 1.75 " hole made with a hole-saw. 1.6 mm Ply to reinforce the sides, and a box made from 3 mm hardwood + 10 mm Ply to house servos & mail L/G

Servo tray, sort-of!

Overall look at this stage

You can see the Spadet I had built in 2007, flies well! 

Bottom of wing (4 mm) glued to one edge of top (2 mm) and ailerons, single spar in place, reduced the dihedral....plans call for 5", I used 3"

Close up showing dihedral brace

Wing top folded over & glued into place. I use SR 998 from Fevicol (synthetic rubber based)  Pre-treatment is scrubbing with a kitchen green scourer & NC Thinner, let dry fro 10 min., then press firmly together & Voila!

Get a fairly decent aerofoil section here

Another view of the aerofoil section

2 mm wing centre piece glued in place, servo holes cut out, & 1.6 ply bits glued for screwing servos

Servos, horns & cycle-spoke pushrods in place. Now, back to the fuse

Note 1.5" holesawed access for servo wires

1. Tail feathers glued in (both horiz & vert stabs)
2. Additional former from corro (2 X 4 mm, glued with flutes 90 deg to each other) with triangular support. This is to support the pushrods & give shape
3. Pushrods installed (elev+rudder/nose-wheel+throttle)
4. Note wood block for giving 90 deg support to vert. stab

Note nose-wheel push rod goes thru' the fluting at the end

Most useful tool - a PCB Hand-drill. Use for drill size up to 2 mm. Bought it on e-bay

LHS folded up & glued in place!

1/2" long X 2.5 mm Self Tapping screws go into the 3 10 mm Ply formers (incl. firewall)

L/G fitted, RHS closed up, OS 55 AX fitted (coz that's all I had available!  A 46 is more than enough)

Now, a mock assembly to finalise CG before fitting wing hold-down dowels, and closing off the top cover

Every lady needs some make-up! I used vinyl self-adhesive sheets

I make (as I guess many others too) stickers by getting pix from the net, & printing them on my ink-jet printer on photo paper. A layer of thin clear packing tape on top to fuel-proof. This is of our club, AAG (aeromodellers Asoc. Gurgaon) very beautifully designed by our club guys

Every SPAD needs one of these - Calvin "expressing" his views on ba&%#@sa 

At Bhondsi field, ready to go!

The maiden was flown by Sandeep Jain, a very experienced flier. I goofed up - the rudder horn & the nose steering arm are on the same side relative to the servo, but out of habit I put them on opposite sides of the servo arm! No matter, Sandeep took off straight. Lovely flier, very stable, flew easily on 1/2 throttle, and with the CG well balanced made a beautiful landing. Only adjustment needed was a tad of down elev. trim

Poor Gurvinder crashed & totalled his Boomerang, so he posed for this pic with the Deb!

hi,

chk my spads.

  Good one and the build log too ! Is there a video?


   Awesome!
Where can I get one of those? Or did you print it?

Super build sanjay. Wheels Looks like funnhobby (Ganguly da's) wheels.

PS
Gurvinder more deb than deb

Thanks Augustine! Yes, the wheels are from Ganguly-da! Superb spotting, as usual 

Gurvinder sure looks Deb! 

sbajare: Really beautiful spads! And, you've gone the difficult way with the vert. stab in the centre. What have you used in the Deb centre wing-wrap? (the black one)

Swapnil:

I can mail you the Calvin pic if you want!

 
why cant i make anything from this material .........
i have wasted so many corro sheets till now and everytimei see spads  i feel ashamed
that why am i not able to build anything from this material...
once again that a superb build

Swapnil: Thanks for your kind words. Will post a video next week hopefully. Only did the maiden last Sunday, & I had my hands full, literally!

Akky: it's not difficult. Do read STTB (spadtothebone.com) & spadworld.net. You'll even find a post by me as sanjayrai55, showing how to manage with locally available materials

Here's the link, for a Spadet:   http://spadworld.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14919&highlight=sanjayrai55

Beautiful build! Congratulation on the new model

Thanks so much Sun! 

nice and different type of building procedure..wats the AUW?

Don't have a suitable weighing m/c Krish, but I estimate about 2.7-3 Kg . Bit heavy, due to the larger engine, & the L/G/oversize wheels (we have a bumpy ground)

awesome work man.. hats off... 
want to build one like this someday.. 

It's not really difficult, Arun. Just do it....you will find it easy

On a different note, after shifting from Gurgaon to Navi Mumbai, due to lack of a suitable ground, I decided to move into Electrics

I'm building my first Electric Spad, self designed, 44" span, 12" chord, 32" length.

Will post a build log soon

The ground is what my problem too... 
I am alone here in ma place for rc flying.. and there is no suitable place near by ma place...
want to do atleast an electric model like that soon.. now busy with an ornithopter .. will upload the log also.. 

pretty good model

cheers

Thank you Satish, and cheers to you too!

Decided to build another for a friend

Made many modifications from the original

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What an awesome build !

 

Maidened her today. Beautiful flier! Video next time for sure 

Rai Saheb.. Yet another lovely build..  Nayi saal ke subh kamnaye aap ko. 

    and a Very Happy 2020 to you too!

fantastic well built plane... all your build planes are great....

  Sharlock