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Introduction
:
FoamFly.com is more than just a hobby company. It’s a community too!
Please take pictures and video of your Pelican, and upload them to the photo
gallery. Feel free to drop by and see what all the other foam junkies have been
building. There are free plans, and lot’s of tips and ideas as well as unique new
planes that you won’t find anywhere else.
Okay, you’ve got your Pelican kit in front of you, and you’re ready to cruise
the skies. Only problem: the plane is lying in pieces in front of you. Well we can
take care of that too. There’s some techniques you’ll need to be familiar with to
make the most of your kit. I’ll refer to them as they’re needed, but the details of
those techniques will be in the Appendix at the end of this manual.
Let’s begin. Don’t let all the text in this manual scare you. Take each
step taken one at time, and you’ll find that everything is within your capabilities.
Here we go.
1) Identify all the parts:
You’ll need to know which part is which, unless you want to end up with the
flying equivalent of Frankenstein’s Monster. So, let’s start by taking a look at
what you’ve got here.
a) Foam Airplane Parts:
(1) Fuselage halves (Left and Right)
(2) Fuselage
Top
(3) Fuselage
Bottom
(4) Fuselage
Front
(5) Horizontal
Stabilizer
(6) Wings (Left and Right)
(7) Parts Sheet A
(a) Motor Pylon Centers
(b) Motor Pylon Sides
(c) Elevator
Halves
(d) Tip Float Sections (10)
(e) Tip Float Caps (2)
(8) Parts Sheet B
(a) Wing Ribs (8)
(b) Formers
(5)
(c) Vertical
Stabilizer
(d) Rudder
(e) Dihedral Braces (2 Front and Rear)
(f) Battery
Hatch
(g) Keel
(9) Wheel Parts Sheet
(a) Wheel halves (4)
(b) Wheel Spacers (4)
