| The Hawk 1500 is a 1.5m span
ARTF electric glider costing £69 it includes a brushless outrunner motor
spinner folding prop and is a pod & boom construction with built up wings.
Additional items required 3 mini servos, speed controller, 1000ma 3 cell lipo.
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Assembly is quite straight forward there are only a few parts the main work is fitting the wing
attachment plates which are 2 laser cut ply plate into which you have to press
in spike nuts, 4 holes to be drilled into the pod spotted from the wings then
epoxy them to the pod also the servo mount plate needs to be epoxyed into the
pod. The wings are ready covered
but just need the film removed from the mounting holes I found the easyest way
to do this is with a soldering iron with a pointed bit, the same for the v-tail
fixings. The rest of the assembly involves gluing on the boom insuring that the
exit slots for the rudder/ elevator are
true to the wing, the tail assembly just slides over the boom and a grub screw
holds in place. |
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| The canopy fixing was suggested using 3 screws
but I prefer to have one that is easy to remove so I add a small plastic tab at
the nose and a spring wire retainer to the canopy at the rear you do need to
rough up the inside of the canopy to enable epoxy to stick. I made two additional items
to hold the lipo & a mounting plate for the receiver the lipo being mounted
in the vertical plane making it easier to remove and the speed controller could
be tucked along side, due to the small size of the pod there is only room for
the main spectrum receiver inside so I drilled a small hole behind the wing for
the cable for the second receiver to exit then mounted the second receiver on
the back of the pod with Velcro. |
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The correct balance was
achieved by adjusting the position of the battery the test flight was carried out on Minch after a couple of test glides which needed a few
clicks of up-trim a launch under power and it tracked away straight as a die and
under full power it climbs vertical. I am quite impressed with this cheap little
model.
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