I’ve yet to decide if I’ll add a FES motor to the Monerai. The main issue is that the tail is very light and there is no space to put the batteries far behind the center of gravity. I’ll decide on adding FES before sending the glider off to the paint shop.

I do however want a tow hook. And of course I still needed to fit and install the canopy.

The towhook I built myself, using a servo I had lying around still, and our usual DIY setup. The same with the canopy lock. I like these to be “hidden” below the wing/fuselage.

Fitting the canopy is always a lot of work – usually saved for a day that I feel up to it and pull it through in one go. I roughly cut it to shape using my Tamiya canopy scissors. Then it’s a lot of sanding/trying/sanding/trying until it fits. Most of the sanding is done using my permagrit. After that I glued the canopy to the frame using thickened epoxy resin (aerosil and micro-balloons), this time also adding some grey colourant (after waxing the fuselage to make sure that the resin only sticks to the canopy). The whole thing took me more than 5 hours…..