Flaglor Sky Scooter

The Build Guide

Full Size:

Length: 15ft (4.78m)

Wingspan: 28ft (8.64m)

Wing area: 115ft² (10.7m²)

Weight: 650lb (300kg)

Engine: Volkswagen
engine, 40hp

Model:

Length: 27in (685mm)

Wingspan: 47ft (1200mm)

Wing area: 31in² (2.04dm²)

Weight: 8.8oz (250g)

Motor: 45g Brushless

Outrunner

Materials needed:
6mm Depron
3mm Depron
3mm Balsa
3mm diameter plastic tubing (Balsa can be used also)
Pushrod material (Balsa)
Music wire for servo-pushrods connection
2 Wheels 1.5in (45mm) diameter
1.5mm music wire for the gear
Thread for rigging
Screws and nuts for wing mount
5min Epoxy
Contact glue
CA-Glue
Soldering iron
X-Acto knife

RC- and Power System-Components needed:

3 Micro Servos
4ch Receiver
Brushless Motor 30-50g (should be able to make 250g of thrust)
LiPo battery 2S/3S 500-1200mAh
ESC matching your motor and battery
Ok, all the other tiny parts I forgot every scratchbuilder has at home☺
Let’s go!

Explosion view.
Print out the plans, tape the pages together and cut out the templates.

Cut out the parts.

Make notches as indicated on the plans. Use the soldering iron. Don’t cut all
the way through! Just enough that the parts can be slightly bent.

Glue the bulkheads to one side of the fuselage. Add the other side. Use
contact glue.
Attach the ceiling. Notice the mid bulkhead folded forward.

Add the fuselage bottom. The fuselage has to get the shape of a seaplane.
Glue the front top of the fuselage on. This part is made from 3mm depron.
You can use 6mm but make sure your noseblock is big enough! Make the
cabin struts out of plastic tubing, balsa can be used also. Make the nose.
Laminate 11 layers of depron together.

Make it look really nice and round! First use a knife, then sand.
Glue the motor mount stick onto the ceiling. Use Epoxy. Add the two “wing
supports”.

Prepare wing and tail parts. The elevator halves are cut out with a soldering
iron. Again don’t cut all the way through! Leave a bit depron for the hinge.
The elevator halves are joined with a piece of balsa.
The rudder is full-flying, so just bevel the edge that is attached to the
fuselage.
The wing halves are bent to an airfoil shape and are glued together with
contact glue. Reinforce the bond with clear tape. The ailerons are optional!
Just add a few more degrees of dihedral if you’re flying just with rudder and
elevator. The ailerons are cut out the same way as the elevator.

Make a motor mount that fits your motor. Add a square stick for the common
stick mount. Wood-wood bonds are made with medium CA-glue.

Install servos. You need to cut holes in the bulkhead to make room for the
pushrods.
Make the tail linkages for rudder and elevator. The rudder is hinged with two
small strips of thin plastic to the end of the fuselage. You have to cut a notch
in the rudder for the elevator joiner.

Make the aileron linkages. It’s optional! Also make a wing mount. I used 2
screws going through the wing into nuts in the motor mount plate. Maybe
rubber bands can be used too…
Bend the 1.5mm music wire to the shape of the gear and epoxy it on the
bulkhead. Add the wheels. Cut the windshield out of thin plastic sheeting and
glue it on the ceiling, the 2 struts and the front top of the fuselage. Use
contact glue. Make 4 balsa struts for the horizontal tail. The locations are
visible on the picture above. They are 3x2mm in cross section.

Attach the “rigging tower” onto the wing. I used the wing mounting screws to
attach the tower. Insert small pieces of tubing in the wings to create hard
points for the thread. Rig your plane as shown on the picture.
You’re done!

Happy flying!