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The rudder completion was a bit fiddly on the Graupner Swift S-1 the rudder isn't hinged in the conventional way but instead is vertically pinned at the top and bottom. The ball and socket connections (as opposed to a standard clevis type) on all servos except rudder make for strong and secure linkages between servos and control surfaces. Quite why Graupner chose this latter one is beyond me, but I stuck with it and made up the control rod with the tube and a length of medium gauge wire rod bound and epoxied to each end, the rod being threaded on one end to take the plastic socket that locates on to the servo ball joint. Servo linkage on the Graupner Swift is a mixture of Bowden cable (plastic outer/metal inner) for the rudder, wire rods for the ailerons and a relatively large diameter aluminium tube for the elevator. Once those formers are in place you can then concentrate on the ply canopy plate, I used Gorilla Glue on all the ply/GRP joints which secured everything very well.Ībove: radio installation in the Swift S-1 is not complicated. This was easier said than done and proved to be a bit tricky - don't use quick-setting glue for that little job! But before this needs to be done there are two ply fuselage formers which must be glued into place fore and aft of the wing seat area. Installation of the two standard servos in the nose is easy a 1/8" ply plate is supplied and needs to be cut to shape before being glued into the glider canopy area.
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Servo covers are supplied, but don't work too well. Installation of the HS-85Ms into each wing was fairly straightforward, the plan calls for standard servos to be used but it's really not necessary with today's choice of high power micro ones.Ībove: HiTech HS-85M servos power the Swift's ailerons. The aileron servos require an extension lead which I soldered to be sure. My choice of servos for my Graupner Swift S-1 was the Spektrum DS821 standard servos for elevator and rudder control, and HiTech HS-85M metal geared ones for each aileron. But overall it's a good quality rc sailplane that anyone with some intermediate modelling experience can throw together. The plan, or rather instruction sheet, is a good reference but it had its faults and the kit had some minor issues along the way. There's really not a great deal to do to assemble the Graupner Swift S-1 and mine took a few evenings to complete. I duly parted with my money, took the glider home and got to work. Fortunately for me there is an rc plane and glider shop close to home and the Graupner Swift caught my eye it was sat on the top shelf and judging by the layer of dust on the box had been there for quite some time! I settled on the Swift after shopping around for a 2 meter (or thereabouts) wingspan aerobatic glider to compliment my collection of smaller gliders. The Graupner Swift features a GRP fuselage (and fin) and foam core/veneer wing panels with balsa sheet tailplane, so is a relatively simple build.
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It's the 2.1m wingspan version of the famous Swift S-1 aerobatic sailplane which was developed in the early 1990s from the Polish SZD-21 Kobuz sailplane, and the Swift S-1 is a popular scale aerobatic glider for radio control enthusiasts. This is a bit of info on my Graupner Swift S-1 rc glider. To remove a keyword just delete it from the search field, please remove it entirely or the search results will not be so good.Home Site search Site Map About Me Contact Me Site FAQ Privacy/Cookie Info Testimonials Each plan will contain the keywords you choose and the plans descriptions will not be searched. When you pick keywords from the panel above you are asking the system to return you the plans that contain those keywords. Pick only one from each group and keep in mind that we are in the process of editing all the plans so only the plans already edited will show up.Īs plans are edited the keywords above are attributed to them.