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This boat will have just one cut (L cut?) rather than the traditional Z cut as the hull is braced and pretty solid. Locating pind made from plastic card lines everything up.
Update. Fitted the weight shifting trim system in its own WTC in the bow. The silicone tubing coupling between the gearboxed motor and the threaded rod acts like a slipper clutch, so no limit switches needed.
Very nice - I particularly like the trim tank concept using thr 'slipper clutch'. That should certainly make life easier pondside. Do you intend fitting front planes too though?
Hi Andrew, no plans for operatable front planes. The scale planes are tiny on this sub and not much value in model subs if they are trimmed correctly and have a fairly recent pitch controller fitted. Still with waterproof servos now available it will be pretty easy to get them working with a yolk to clear the top of front WTC.
Interesting Ramesh - you've re-iterated exactly what Chris Cloke told me about the front planes on my Trafalgar. Mind you I think the Trafalgar would look odd without them.
With the way things are going with the Typhoon I might just be tempted to try that in the water with the front planes retracted to see what happens.
My best performing sub to date is the Engel Lafayette which has fixed fore planes and I run my Typhoon with the planes retracted most of the time. I have aquired an Eden (Sheerline) Trafalgar hull and the the default position of the fore planes as are in completely the wrong position to the original. The Trafalgars had their fore planes above the midline and would have to be installed in the top hull, which ofcourse makes installation of functional planes more of a headache.
Linear Mode
