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Re: MOC: Stealth Fighter Revealed
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lugnet.build.military
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Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:36:23 GMT
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Mattias Martensson wrote:
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> Is it possible that you will tell us more about its construction? To have
> such a model at work (I am in the radar business) would be dream.
Gee - isn't that like asking a magician to reveal all his tricks? j/k
;=)
Actually the construction isn't terribly complicated - it just involved
a lot of trial and error to arrive at it's final form.
It's kind of hard to describe with words. It would be easier with
pictures. Maybe I'll get around to doing that sometime.
Anyway... here it goes:
The underside is built with plate elements set up to mimic the stealth's
"hopeless diamond wedge shape". There are simple hinged doors for the
landing gear and bomb bays. The plate structure is then reinforced
with a maze-like structure of bricks and plates that form the internal
landing gear wells, bomb bays, and a mounting structure for the vertical
stabilizers. This provides a sort of chassis that gives the model most
of its bending stiffness. The outer skin of the model really just rides
on top of the chassis (like a body-on-frame pickup truck), and doesn't
contribute much to the model's overall stiffness.
The front fuselage is almost a separate component itself and is attached
to the chassis. It's basic form starts with the 53 degree slopes on the
nose wedge and blends into a smooth brick fuselage. There are plate
hinges mounted inside the brick walls that are used to connect it to the
chassis.
The upper wedge shaped surfaces sprouting rearward behind the cockpit
are mounted on an internal brick spine. Hinges emanating from the spine
are used to slant the left and right wedges slightly away from the
double slopes along the centerline. This spine also mounts to the
internal chassis, but is isolated from the front fuselage. The upper
portions of the engine housings are also connected to the spine with
additional hinges.
The intakes are closed out on the sides by hinged bricks attached to the
wing surface (this is the potion of the model that I feel is too sloppy
looking, but I haven't come up with a more elegant solution yet!)
--
J. Spencer Rezkalla
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