Half scale 168" Electric 45kg Spacewalker

I have started a detailed build thread for the building of this large plane. It can be seen here http://spacewalker2.co.uk/

Here is a picture or 2 to give you a feel for the size......



That is a wheel that I have just machined out of a 6" bar of alluminium. The overall wheel diameter is 8".


I need a bigger dining room !!!! And that is Sam's Eurofighter in the background. It is being fitted with a 5" electric ducted fan with a 5Kw motor running on 12 cells.

Bloody hell its massive

Looks awesome bud ! Love it

impressive build project andy looks great.

it dont look good it looks exelant and a good bit of kit love to see when its flying all the best ron

Built an elevator today. It is made of cyparis, plywood, Lite Ply, hard balsa, medium balsa and laminated balsa.....phew.

hi andy coming along, looks like u have a good workshop ideal for big builds.great to see a big project build in detail cheers

And now it looks like this....

Electrics.....

Andy that is amazing great work the electrics look mind boggling well done.
If you have time whats the setup cheers.

holy hell thats some build.its very impressive.

phil.D wrote:

Andy that is amazing great work the electrics look mind boggling well done.
If you have time whats the setup cheers.

Hi, the electrics are:
- Turnigy 7kw 100/80 brushless motor x 2, mounted on a single purpose made shaft
- Turnigy 200amp esc x2
- EMCOTEC 360amp power switch for safe isolation of supply (that green light in the side of the fus means it is 'armed')
- Turnigy nano-tech batteries, 3 cell, 5000mah x24 giving 12 cell 30amp.hour (batteries weigh 12kg)
- Prop is a 34" x 14"

Control:
- AR9000 receiver x2, with each completely seperate and handling half of the servos.
- Additional 4 remote receivers, one in each wingtip, one in nose and one in tail.
- Turnigy 2650mah 2 cell batteries for receivers x4 with purpose made power box for isolation and distribution (see pic below)
- Turnigy HV titanium gear 31kg.cm servos x 10
- EMCOTEC servo matching units x 5 (because of 2 receivers - only one servo can be adjusted from transmitter)

Sponsors are:
Turnigy - batteries and servos
SLEC - all wood and cutting
StarLoc Adhesives - all glues
EMCOTEC - power systems

We need a bigger field! no probs siting a camera on that beast, camera man might not be so happy when Sam stars chucking it around the sky though

Andy. make it a little bigger

Sam can take a ride !

Update Andy ?