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Wednesday, 25 March 2015

Mark Kettle's EPP Vulcan

Just ordered one of these wicked looking machines - an EPP Vulcan. Thanks Steve A70 for the heads up!
Designed and manufactured by Mark Kettle for £79 delivered (limited offer - limited availability)
Here what you get for your money.

List of Vulcan parts
Two inner wings with engine locating slots in trailing edge
Four outer wings with elevon mounting step in trailing edge
Two Foam elevons taped to lite-ply
12 Fuselage parts  - Fin with woods  - Cockpit   - 4 foam nacells    
Plan - Build instructions - Various inserts
Five Spars 6 mm  - min size - woods  - some bevelled ends & marked where to use them in wing
Two triangle 6 mm spar support
Two Inner front fuselage 1.5 mm ply sides
Connected as one -two lite ply 30 x 3 mm used on base inside fuselage - marked on where to use
One roll velcro - 0.5 mtr x 20mm wide -to be used with above lite-ply for ballast holding and removeable front ply for battery, RX placement and nose weight.
One 1.5mm ply hatch markings  - magnets 10mm dia x 2mm wide with    - warning note - and a  skewer
Some non-stick paper -  40 grade grit sanding block - soft sanding pad used when decorating - brown parcel covering paper
UHU contact adhesive  - PVA 500 ml doesn’t need thinning  - Tub of Lite Filler 400 ml size
Control parts
Two 30 x 20  x 6 mm wooden blocks to take screws under lite-ply
-horns x2
-screws x4
-clevis x2
-rods 2 mm x2
-2 mm balsa  servo hatch x2 marked with slot for standard size servos
One elevon measuring tool printed on photo paper
Box  - free Postage delivery  -

If your interested (like me) then you can contact Mark on 07958 772 123 or email him on markskettle@gmail.com

2 comments:

  1. Big Phil, here at A470Soaring has one on order and we are going up to the Orme in a couple of weeks time to pick it up. It should be good!

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  2. I certainly do have one on order, but I've cheated and gone for the built one...just add rx and battery....£150.
    Looking forward to hearing that whoosh lol

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