LANCAIR

61

By Great Planes

Last updated June, 2006

The Lancair is a very beautifull experimental craft, I saw my first Lancair at my local airport after being confiscated on a near by island with fake markings, this particular plane is still at the loca airforce's hangar in San Andres Island.

I got my Lancair on February 17 2005, and will start to put it together this week of March 6, I was short on extensions and y harnnesses so had them delivered from Bogota, remember that nothing can be found in the island.

The engine is going to be an OS 61 FX, Futaba Servos. A Futaba 7CAP 7 channel Tranmitter. With a futaba Rx 127 standard reciever and a five cell battery for safety .

Notice the carpenters glue aplied to the accesible ribs trough the servo openings for flaps and ailerons.

Followed the tip on manual to cover the aileron servos with battery shrink plastic so as to glue them in place.

Here you can see that the original instructive is to cover the flaps with the provided wood door using the standard servos.

What I did with theAilerons Covers was to make a similar cover out of wood which I sanded very thin where it met the sttandard servo

and then screwed it to the wood blocks that were glued on the corners of the servo cavity.

This is how the finished wing halves looked notice the short lenght of the push rods.

Inside look at the plane

Inside shots of the fuselage

Are't this some beautifull lines...

Notice the position of the engine and internal muffler to acomodate the 2 stroke .61 engine, this way it would not show on

the outside and keep the lines clean. I opened the underbelly as instructed to make a better air flow , I did not glued it to

the fuselage, 2 hard wood sticks where glued inside the fuselage and the plate was screwed so as to have space later for

any repairs or balancing with lead.

notice the remote glow plug hot shot accessory

I reinforced the wing joint with fiberglass square on the top side and an aluminun strip joining the 2 landing gear duraluminum pieces and using longer and wider SS screws this due to reports of wing failure in several planes. Which may have been caused by poor gluing or hard landings anyway better safe than sorry. I did not change the wing joiner becuse I had allready assemble the wing when i found out of this troubles.

The Following pictures where taken the day the ground roll, radio and engine check at the walkway on San Andres island . Notice The state od the Ocean as flat as a dinner table, next day at luch I went float flying, it was great.

On the Beach Walk in San Andres islas.

The plane now in my Barranquilla Colombia Home, Notice the tx antenna which will match the soon to be installed whip on plan

With this size air outlet engine Overheated with the new enlarged outlet the engine works fine, there is still some bubbles on fuel line but have been Minimized by padding Tank.

First Fligth 3 fligths that went well what a plane, did some low passes , some rolls and some loops including a knife edge. Beautifull everybody stoped flying to see this magnificent airplane.

Change the nose cone spinner for an Aluminun Spinner greta looks.

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A homebuilt classic...that's also prebuilt!
First unveiled in 1985, Lancair homebuilt kits were winning awards at airshows all over the country by the early 1990's. Great Planes' ARF version of the Lancair ES has many of the same attributes as the aircraft that inspired it (including a classy appearance that looks fast even when sitting on the ground). Basically any maneuver you can think of — loops, spins, snap rolls and inverted flight — the Lancair has superior ARF construction throughout: quality woods, MonoKote® covering, and lots of strong, lightweight fiberglass. Plus, the included Great Planes hardware adds to the plane's quality and convenience. It's sleek, it's speedy, and it's the first-ever ARF model of this homebuilt classic!

SPECIFICATIONS

Wingspan: 80 in (2030mm)

Wing Area: 690 sq in (44.5 dm2)

Weight: 8.5-9 lb (3850-4080g)

Wing Loading: 28-30 oz/sq ft (87-92g/dm2)

Length: 52 in (1320mm)

Engine Required: 2-stroke .61-.75 cu in (10-12cc) or 4-stroke .91 cu in (15 cc)

Radio Required: 5-channel w/7 standard servos