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Here Scott is removing part of the firewall to allow for the batteries. The firewall is 2 - 1/4" 5 ply aircraft plywood pieces laminated together. This would be very difficult to remove without the aid of an air saw.
It is the 1st of August and Lake Havasu is running a little warm, about 115 degrees F and too hot to repaint the wing tips. It was decided that we would return the Curtiss to the colors we had on her when we first built her. Our Certified Chrome Yellow Dope has arrived from Aircraft Spruce and Specialty so we are ready when the weather gets a little cooler.
So at this point, I am cleaning and polishing the flying and landing wires while we wait for our new motor mount to be built and the arrival of our electric motor. When we built the Curtiss in 1988, there were no flying wires of the strength we needed. Our first flight was done with Proctor flying wires and brass turnbuckles. These proved inadequate for this large aircraft. We had a local machinist make the clevises out of steel, sheered 314 stainless .060 sheet into strips, sanded them smooth, braised them to the clevises and used the new DuBro steel turnbuckles for the flying and landing wires.
Transition and Rebirth
The Curtiss has been found, recovered, returned, thoroughly cleaned, stripped of old electronics, engine, fuel tank, disassembled, inspected and patiently waiting for her new upgrades and coat of paint.
The folks at Xtreme Power Systems are heavily involved in electric everything. They have electric fixed wing aircraft, small and giant, all sizes of electric ducted fans, electric helicopters and electric performance boats. You name it and they are or have been doing it for some time.
In electric you want to have a margin between what you need to fly and what you have. My Dad always told me that there is no excuse for lack of horsepower. Scott explained that we are going to use a Steve Neu 2330 1.5Y with 6.7:1 planetary gear box. This motor is of the highest quality and efficiency and will be considerably more power than we need. If you have run electric, you know that heat is always an issue so if you can fly at 50% throttle, your heat build up will be less and duration of flight will be greater. The controller will be a Jeti Spin 200amp. The batteries will be XPS Pro LiPos, 15S 2P 10,000mah packs.
The Steve New motor should be here around August 20th, shortly thereafter the motor mount will be manufactured and we can begin installation of the motor and engineer a battery box for the LiPos.
