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Good news Rob.

That's a lot more balsa than I thought would be needed :-)

I've been thinking about the wing tips again. I know you are planning to make both versions, which will definitely stop me pondering about it, but I am now of the belief that the square tips will help the plane to stall and after all a plane that won't stall isn't much good for 3-D is it! I mean how do you enter a decent spin if the plane won't flick. So on reflection I think you may find that they are the best. I really gotta stop thinking so much.

We are all waiting with bated breath for the build.

I notice that nobody else has posted a name for the plane so I have decided to call it after your suggestion - "R-Ampage 3D." I might create a logo for it if you tell me what colours you have in mind for the prototype?

I have made some more progress with the Striker but I am not showing it just yet. I have just spent hours on the wing finalising details like undercarriage mount, servo mounts - must have tried about 4 different iterations for those before I decided on one. Just got to sort out the split flap linkages and the control horns and then I will post it on my thread.

Actually I have had a pretty annoying day - I swept a 3-D profile for the main undercarriage legs and was trying to constrain them to the assembly. Would they, they would not. It took me hours to discover there was an error on the swept profile of one section of the legs (1.4 degrees out of square) so when I tried to constrain them using axes and tangents it just would not work. Nothing worked.

Boy was I spitting feathers (Yorkshire expression) when I found out why. Just goes to show how a small hidden error can cause much lost time and frustration. I could have sworn that I saw the perpendicular symbol appear on those sections when I drew them.

Regards,

Dave