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Building a JART |
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There is plenty of information in the build threads listed below to get you through. And if you have questions you can always contact me, ask your buddies, or post them in the forum.
It's all relative, of course. Building any slope plane, even an ARF, takes a level of commitment. I thought long and hard about ways to make this plane easy to build, but in the end it just takes patience and persistence.
There are three main design elements that make this plane a little easier to build than it could have been:
1. I put the stab up in a place where the builder can just run a pushrod straight to a control horn. No tubes to glue in, no torque rods to deal with.
2. I left off any intakes or blisters or other PSS details that take time to shape and prep.
3. The planform has no breaks and I left the wingtips and stab tips square - no curvy bits to shape.
Not earth-shattering, I know, but slopers are actually very simple toys so there wasn't much else to be done.
So far, I've used the lost-foam technique for building the fuses, and I've cut my own wing and stab cores with a simple hot-wire setup. But some guys have made fuse molds out of epoxy or plaster. This is fine for personal use, just don't sell any of those fuses, boys! My friend Paul Masura (aka dutchydawg1) finished my plug and built a mold so he gets to sell a couple, but at this point the list is closed so don't bother asking for one right now. I'll post it clearly on the site if we ever start pumping out kits on a consistent basis. Don't hold your breath, though – c'mon, dude, DIY!
Remember, you can build a JART any old way you like. Here are two of my favorite methods: (1 | 2). I still plan to put together a balsa built-up version with monokote covering at some point.
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