Do-335 "pheil"

Current project is a 1/5 scale Do-335 from an Engel kit made in Germany.

click here for the kit distributor: Fighteraces

Kit specs:

1/5.5 scale

Power:  3w-80iTS front

              G45 rear with driveshaft

Gear:  Hawe

Wheels/brakes:  Glennis

Radio: Futaba

Finish: PPG

Weight 45 lbs

Kit contents.  Fuse is one piece molded gelcoated fiberglass. Wings and tail are foam core and balsa sheeted.

The kit is very complete, only lacking building materials, engines and radio.

Kit components. Gear, driveshaft, bearing blocks etc.

3w-80, wheel bay liners, various kit components

Tail feathers, ailerons and flaps

Some pics of the G45 rear powerplant and its driveshaft and flex coupler.

First job is to set the wing anti-rotation pins into the leading edge and set the incidence.

The included retracts are then fitted out with brakes and trial fitted into the wing.

Main wheels are 7" diameter

Wheel bay liners installed and flaps hinged. I added an extra air cylinder to the retracts to give more force to overcome air loads on the landing gear doors.

Ailerons are center hinged with a piece of music wire. Hinges are built up from balsa and ply and sandwiched into the wing.