Cheers David. I am going to mount the unit on another bearer to lift it away from the main bearer. It seems the easier option for me. I'll get there in the end. Thanks for the advice. I'm sure I'll be back for more.
Pete

Thanks David, I have now stopped all building as I am waiting for servos from servo shop. These need mounting in the wings and stab before I can sheet and progress any further. I am using retracts from Tony. They are not the ones from Unitract as they don't make them any more and the bodies are bigg...

Simon, I only ever use rudder on tail draggers on take off or landing or for aerobatics, oh and on my D7. I fixed the rudders on my F15 and for me if I won't use them in flight and it has a trike under carriage, I won't need them on take off or landing since the front wheel will do the steering, so ...

I didn't bother with rudders and only used one elevator so reduced the number of servos by 3 at the rear. Also the plan has a few minor errors on it so proceed with care. One that springs to mind is the packing under the spar. From above it says 8mm, from the side under the rib it says 16mm. This is...

Cheers Dave, your advice is invaluable. I have been the same, biggish planes, heavy lumps so servo weights didn't matter. Can I ask you what radio set up you used, servos elsewhere, receiver etc.. In my F15 I went for a powerbox/spektrum AR9210, dual batteries etc but I am wondering whether there wi...

Will go with a single one then.
What do you think of this. Never heard of them but torque is higher than the Hitec which seems a little low for the elevator on a jet.

http://www.wingswheelsandrotors.co.uk/m ... 3435-p.asp

Photos too big for here. PM me your email and I will send them as zipped folder.
Pete

Thanks for that. The inspiration for this build came from a twin boom scale jet I saw at Elvington in the summer at the LMA show. Not sure what it was. I have come across a problem that Tony is sorting out for me at the moment. SLEC sent me the wing ribs and UC doublers cut in lite ply and not 3mm b...

Its full size mounted in a flying postion on a pedestal. I'll see what I can do. See bottom of the page here for a small picture of it.

http://www.rafakrotiri.co.uk/

Nice build, and very useful for me. I have just started one myself, a first from plans. What servos did you use? In particular at the back. I want to sink two slim servos in the fin for a direct connection and am looking at Hitec HS 125MG thin wing. What about the elevator? There is not a lot of roo...

There is a static model here at RAF Akrotiri if you want any photos of it.
Pete