Quest Kodiak

Laminated Paper Airplane of Quest Kodiak

Assembly Insructions

Tools

• Scissors: A pair of scissors that cuts well
• Ruler: To fold straight lines
• (optional) Cutter (X-Acto Knife): Cut sharp corners easier than with scissors
• (optional) Tweezers: Used to check Center of Gravity (CG) and assembly of smaller pieces

Materials

• Paper: 200-300 gsm paper
  • (prefered) 110 lb cover/cardstock (300 gsm)
  • 120 lb index or 80 lb cover/cardstock (216 gsm)
  • 110 lb index (199 gsm)
• Glue: Clear fast drying
  • Duco Cement
  • Bostik Clear-bond
  • 527 Multi-Use Glue
  • Tacky Glue
  • Seal-All
• Paperclips: Used to balance the model
• (optional) 0.041 Safety Wire: Used to balance the model instead of paperclips. About 7-8 inches is needed.

Printing

Either:

• Download the Release file (Latest Release) in the paper size you need OR
• Place Parts and Tools using vector art program (Inkscape, Illustrator, CorelDRAW, etc). If a larger or smaller model is wanted, scale all parts and tools equally

Cutting Out Parts

Rought cut each piece, then trim each piece on the line. Do not cut the main wing backing to size. Fold on dashed lines

Assembly and Gluing

• Glue fuselage parts
  • 1L--1R
  • 2L--1L-1R--2R
  • 3L--2L-1L-1R-2R--3R
  • 4L--3L-2L-1L-1R-2R-3R--4R
• Glue main wing parts (5 & 6) back to back, aligning arrows
• (2x) Glue 2 wing strut parts (8) together
• Glue horizontal stab (7) to fuselage assembly
• Crease main wing to on center line
• Glue wing assembly to fuselage assembly
• Glue wing struts to fuselage assembly and to wing at location indicated on model
• Glue wing reinforcement (9) to center of main wing
• (optional) Landing Gear
  • (2x) Glue landing gear strut parts together
  • Glue wheel to landing gear struts
  • Glue landing gear struts to fuselage

Finishing Touches

• Cut and fold flaps and ailerons
• Droop discontinuous leading edge

Test Flying and Adjusting

• Todo

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