Pattern Trainer build timelapse

by Jebnor | April 17, 2013 | (6) Posted in Projects

I'm building a 67% version of an old favourite of mine, the Zenith 40 -- a pattern trainer.  I'm calling this my Zenith P450, as I expect to be using a Park 450 890kv motor.  The original appeared in the April 1996 edition of RC Modeler.  According to the original article ( and memory of my long crashed original ) this plane has no Yaw-Roll couple and very nice flight characteristics.  Scaled down, the control surfaces seem down right small, 22mm ailerons and 34mm elevator. They are easily enough replaced if they need to be bigger.  We will see.

Park 450 890kv
30A ESC
Turnigy TG9e 9g
OrangeRx 710 Spektrum 7 Channel receiver
3S2200mAh 

If you have any questions, just ask.  I'll answer as much as I can.

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COMMENTS

RoyBro on April 19, 2013
That was a very enjoyable time-lapse of the build. Up until the loss of music, that is.
The wing design is obviously not the ever-popular Armin Wing. It would be nice to see a detailed video on how it was done.
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Jebnor on April 19, 2013
Yeah, I changed the music. It's full length now.

Detailed video coming. I want to finish this plane first, then I'll make a wing build video.
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sailorJohn on April 19, 2013
Terrific build and the video covers a lot of ground fast, it appears that you used a rib to shape your wing ,would be interesting to see the details.
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Pattern Trainer build timelapse