Friday morning at the crack of dawn!

Due to the rain on thursday, I loaded up the RHF2 Late to deliver it to North Ave Beach by 6am for the morning TV shows.

Logo time

Hey Sport!

Red Hot Flyer II Inspiration!

Nice Buns!

Well as you can see the bun is starting to take shape!

Hey, nice TIPS!

HEHEHEHEHEHEHE! So, this past weekend concluded the construction of the Red Hot Flyer II's wing tips. I also, finished up the wing struts that connect to the side of the bun. Next up is starting to build the hot dog and bun, a.k.a the fuselage.

IT'S TOO BIG!

That's what she said! Hehehe! Well, last night after assembling the second wing section and temporally putting the upper middle wing section in place it is apparent that the Red Hot Flyer II is freaking huge. The wing span right now is almost 24 feet and with a addition of wing tips it will be 28 feet. I know size does matter but this is a bit ridiculous. What was I thinking? So I think I have decided to reduce the size of the center wing sections by almost half and possibly cut down the size of the wing tips a bit as well.

It's gonna be BIG!!!!!!!!!

As you can see in the photos above, the Red Hot Flyer II is gonna be big! That is just one of the three plus wing sections. What was I thinking????????

WINGing it 1.3

Construction continues on the four main wing sections. Last night I glued the cardboard strips to the leading edges of the wings and started working on finishing up the undersides of the wings. I should be able to finish this up tonight. Then it is on to the center wing sections and the wing tips. I hope to do a test assembly of the whole wing this weekend.

WINGing it 1.2

This weekend I continued to work on the four wing sections that I have been building. All, four sections are 75% complete. I had A LOT of help from my very supportive girlfriend and on Sunday, one of my teammates, Seth, came over to help me. We cut and glued up all the trailing edges of the wings, cut out the leading edge portions of the ribs out of foam then glued and nailed them into place. Holes were cut out of the cardboard on the trailing edge to help reduce weight; the center rib sections were topped with a strip of cardboard and the top part of the leading edge ribs have been covered with cardboard strips.

I'm WINGing It!

This weekend was not as productive as I would have liked due to a few necessary distractions. The first distraction was for some inspiration. I had to go see The Dark Knight, which by the way was awesome and the second was to celebrate my girlfriends birthday which brought a big smile to her face. Anyway,  back to the Red Hot Flyer II, I am 90% finished with the 4 wing struts. I spent time reenforcing then with foam and added blocking for wire bracing if needed. I have also moved on to building the first wing section. There are 6 main wing sections and 4 wing tips making up about 55 feet of wing length. After all it is a biplane.

Strutting my stuff!

The past two nights have been really productive. I made some more Jigs to build and assemble the Red Hot Flyer II's wing Struts. These four struts are pretty important as they hold the two wings on top of each other. They also are the connecting places for the wing sections. I'm building the RHF2's wings in sections because building two wings that are over 27' and transporting them would be very difficult, not to mention impossible for me to get out of my basement.