The plans I got for the Monerai are very rudimentary – basically just the size and outline of the wings and tailplane. My mate Richi, who’s already finished his Monerai, also told me that he wasn’t too happy with some of the design choices he made. So I went through it again with Georg, our usual wing designer, last week. Based on his input I did a more detailed drawing of the wings and tailplane, in particular in relation to the main spars and size of the control surfaces. The plans are still very rudimentary, but as the wing design is very simple (straight wings and tailplane) and I’m the only one building the plane like this for now, that more than suffices.
Earlier this week I ordered the 0.6mm ebechi wood for the wings and tailplane of the Monerai at RIK Modellbau (balsa.ch), and got a confirmation just a few hours later that it was ready for pickup. I went to get it yesterday and it’s the usual excellent quality – a great shop.
After preparing the sleeve for the other side of the wing joiner today and the sleeve for the wing joiner of the tailplane I decided to start preparing for building the tailplane (cutting the ebechi to size, drawing out where the carbon inserts come, cutting the carbon, painting the ebechi with primer and briefly sanding the ebechi). That went much faster than expected so I also went ahead and put the first side of the tailplane into vacuum.
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