phaeton 2 40 size

Just build straight and follow the directions. It is only one extra wing, after all.

This is an excellent first bip. I scratch built one 10 years ago. You may want to get a 46 for this bird. Mine had a 61 in it, and it was a little over powered but not by much. A 40 will be on the low side.

Don

Thanks Don, That's the kind of info I was looking for. I have a nib os46fx am glad to hear it will work out well. regards Gary

Gary-

Glad I could help. The Phaeton is a very good first Bip. You will enjoy it.

Don

I built one and flew it for a couple years. I powered mine with a Saito .65, great combo.

To balance mine, it require the attachment of a 4 ounce lead weight to the firewall. It flew the same with and without the weight attached. So I discarded the weight after the initial 5 or 6 flights. So if yours turns out a little tail heavy I wouldn't worry too much about it.

My Pheaton climbed badly. I had to attach 1/4" spacers to the tops of the rear top wing support posts to adjust the top wing incidence to 0 degrees.

It was the second plane I built. The instructions gave no details on joining the halves of the top wing. It took me days to decide how to join the top wing halves, I hope they have updated the assembly instructions.

I think the stock ailerons were 3/4" wide, I substituted 1 1/4" wide ailerons. It had an nice roll rate, not fast, but ok.

I never built, nor used, nor installed the outer wing supports.

Thanks emcook for the very useful info. r/c flyers are a great bunch. all the best Gary

I also threw away the balsa wing spars and used 1/4" spruce for both the top and bottom wings spars.

The top wing has no top trailing edge sheeting. Its only sheeted on the bottom of the top trailing edge.

I think the same is true for the bottom wing, no top sheeting on the trailing edge. However I did install sheeting on the bottom wings trailing edge both top and bottom.