Miles High - Cross tail 2m Glider ~ Fuselage Pod / Fin / Tail & Wing Ribs Part Kit

This fuselage is designed by Steve Haley and aimed at the F3-RES /F5L-RES competition pilots. Although designed around the Miles wing, the brief was to create a ‘cost-effective’ universal fuselage pod & tail unit to fit all 2m glider wings. To minimise postage/stock holding costs, you must provide your own carbon boom; details can be found below. There is no requirement for a plan to construct this fuselage as we offer full building guidelines. This is one of the few part kits where we provide the original Miles building plan if using our wing rib set to construct the wing.

Model Specification: Miles High

• Wing span: 2m (78")
• Fuselage Length: 1.24m (49")
• Wing profile: PK (8.7% - 7.8% / 2.2% Camber)
• Flying weight: 600 - 750g

• Suggested power unit: 28mm (Dualsky 2826EA)

•                                                3s Lipo / 30amp ESC
• Spinner diameter: 34 - 35mm
• Controls: rudder + elevator + spoiler + throttle 
• CG - from leading edge: 76 -78mm

The three-piece wing is a built-up rib and spar construction with strong spruce spars and balsa sheer webs throughout the span. The polyhedral tip panels are joined to the flat centre panel by mm steel joiners or bespoke carbon joiners can be applied to save weight. The polyhedral layout offers great stability in flight and for the electric version, we recommend the builder increases the tail-plane area by approximately 10% to improve overall handling. A ballast tube (not provided) is installed in the centre panel. 

The leading edge is fully sheeted; the aft section of the ribs is capped with balsa strips. This offers more than enough torsion stiffness. A spoiler should be installed on the top surface of the centre panel to ease up the landing approach and rescue from high altitudes. The wing airfoils are flat-bottomed for easy build-up. They are as thin as possible but as thick as necessary to supply enough strength in terms of bending. The airfoil transition shows 8.7% thickness at the root and 7.8% at the tip with an average camber of 2.2%.

Fuselage design criteria:

• Cost-effective universal fuselage pod & tail unit to fit all 2m glider wings
• Complies with F3-RES /F5L-RES competition rules.
• Improved drag reduction utilising V-Tail
• Greatly reduced weight (200g lighter than original Miles Fuselage)
• Designed to take a standard 28mm brushless outrunner motor (200-300w) using 500amp 3s Lipo
• Servo tray designed around micro 18.6 x 7 x 16.7 mm servo 
• (I use MKS HV70 Servo Micro wing servo from https://www.t9hobbysport.com/
• Longer moment arm to improve Tailplane pitch stability
• Both cross tail & V-tail versions now available

What is in the box:

• A total of 181 quality laser pre-cut parts in the box
• 2 x fuselage sides cut in 3 mm liteply
• 9 x Fuselage top & bottom cross grain 3mm balsa
• 9 fuselage formers cut in 3 mm liteply
• (34 & 35 mm diameter motor bulkheads provided to give more spinner options)
• (2 versions provide for boom support formers)
• 2-part servo tray cut in 3 mm liteply
• 3 x wing retaining plates cut in 3mm liteply
• 2 x canopy support bars
• Triangular balsa strip
• 12 x balsa formers to produce conical pod boom interface
• A fuselage frame is provided to ensure everything is bonded square!
• Fin, Rudder & Tailplane cut in 4.75 mm balsa
• Fin joiners - 3mm carbon tube and 2mm rod
• Tailplane platform and fin drill jig (for drilling the slots & holes in the boom accurately)
• Tailplane & Fin control horns cut from 1.5 mm premium laser ply
• Building guidelines included (digital)
• Wing ribs (2mm Balsa & 1.5mm ply) - 71
• 1.5mm Ply shear webs - 8
• 1.5mm Ply dihedral braces - 4
• Lead edge templates - 4
• Spoiler guide - 1
• 45 deg balsa corner braces - 8
• balsa corner brace - 2
• Miles plan for the wing construction is available upon request

What you will need in addition to complete the Fuselage/tail/wing:

• Carbon boom - finished length 770 long.
• Carbon boom direct from www.freeflightsupplies.co.uk (F1A - 17.5 mm to 10.2 mm x 950 mm - 22 gm - £20.00 plus post)
• Control push rod set - I use 0.74mm 22SWG Stainless Steel Wire (1.5 m)
• Wing retaining nuts & bolts to suit your wing design
• Wing spars, sheeting, LE/TE strip wood, wing joiners etc
• Covering material
• Miles plan for the wing construction is available upon request

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Please read the rest of the description below carefully as this is not a complete kit.

• The box contains laser-cut ribs/parts only.
• This is not a complete model kit.
• Additional materials will be required to complete the model.
• All photos are for illustration purposes only.
• Photos 2 to 4 of laser-cut parts (green background) show exactly what you will receive in the box
• Building plans are not included
• Plans can be obtained from https://model-plans.co.uk/

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