My E-Streaks

Well, I got a lot of wise advice on what to do with this thing.  


Mostly the advice was to just throw the wing and tail surfaces into the original fuse, mount an engine, and fly the sucker.  But, if you’ve learned anything about me in my time here on the CEF, you know I don’t always follow the wise path.  I did decide to just use the original fuselage, but being me, I couldn’t just do it stock.  I still have a hankering for electrickery.  So, I went ahead and used the Hacker motor and controller I have on hand.  This is what I had to start with:


I went ahead and enlarged the mount area for the Hacker A30-8XL motor, and I made a hole in the vertical maple stick for the shaft to stick through.



Then I mounted the motor to a couple of pieces of 1/16 angle and mounted the angle to the engine bearers.  Afterwards I trimmed the motor mounts, but didn’t take pictures at the time.




Then, for the battery mount, I cut a slot in the wing and made a box by using a ply plate for a shear web between the spars, and boxed in the sides.  


I MonoKoted the battery area and then glued the wing in place with epoxy.




Then I put the motor mounts back in place and put some Velcro on to keep the battery from shifting.  I still haven’t decided how I’m going to make the Velcro strap to keep the battery in place.  Most guys use slots in the fuselage to do that, but the ARF Flite Streak fuse isn’t solid, so I can’t really afford to weaken it.  I’ll figure something out.  I mounted the speed controller under the outboard wing, and I’ll put the receiver under the inboard wing.  I just need to get some more sticky backed Velcro before I can finish that up.  But here it is mostly finished:




I have several 3S 2200mAh packs on hand from electric helis, so I’ll just fly with them for now and put up with shorter flights.  I should get about 3.5 minutes with the 9x6 pusher prop that’s on there now.  If I don’t like it, I have a 10x4 prop to try, but it’s not a left handed prop.
The E-Mark