Aviation Design Mini Diamond User manual

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MINI
Assembly Manual
ZI le chenet, 91490 Milly La Foret –France -
Tel : [phone]
E-mail : aviation.des[email protected]r
www.aviation-design.fr
Version 01/09/2016

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INTRODUCTION
If You love speed ?…..
If You love the futuristic design ….
Then This jet is for you.
Mini Diamond is just a reduce scal of our famous Diamond.
Just created from the Eric RANTET imagination, Diamond is a combination of Star Wars, Flash
Gordon, and the 1950,s first jets from French Leduc and Russian jet and the Gee Bee racers
With a futuristic/ old design, Diamond features stunning shapes and flies like a space ship.
Designed for high speed, the Diamond can also fly very slow due to his studied aerodynamics and large
landing flaps.
Diamond has been entirely CAD designed with Catia software and all toolings are CNC machined on
our large 5 axis milling centre.
Minin Diamond is of course fully composite and moulded in our new CZ factory. It is delivered in
ARF version, pre-built and painted in the mold with art work fitted.
The landing gear uses trailing link legs for the best performance on any kind of runway.
Mini Diamond is designed for 6 to 12 kg thrust turbine. A light turbine is required to easily obtain the
center of gravity due to the rear engine position. The radio batteries and turbine battery are located in
the nose.
Mini Diamond has the ability to be fully dismantled for an easy transportation.
The nose is removable for batteries access.
A sidewall engine hatch allows engine operation.
The main gears are screwed in the wings and the wing tip tanks are removable
The one piece stabs are also removable from the rudder for transportation.
All necessary hardware are included in the parcel.
Assembly require only few hours to fit engine and radio.
Mini Diamond ARF includes :
-High quality epoxy-glass fuselage painted.
-All plywood and wood parts premounted.
-Fully molded wings, stabs and fin painted
-2 carbon wing joining tube.
-Access hatch and canopy requiring no additional framework.
-All hardware (screws, servo cover, ...)
-Instructions in English with pics.

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Available versions :
-All white version
-Orange Racing version
-Red Racing version
-White Racing version

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Parts required to complete the kit :
-1 kevlar fuel tank, 2.5 litres capacity.
-Or kevlar fuel tanks with UBT
-Deluxe retractable landing gear with special CNC oleo legs and
wheels set on bearing + brakes
-Or Deluxe gear + 2 electovalves for gear and brakes
-Protection covers for wings, rudder, nose, stabs, wing tip tanks.
-Fuselage protection cover.
-Graupner servo pack including 8 mini servos 6 to 7 kg torque .
1 x Graupner DES 587 BB MG 6kg
7 x Graupner DES 567 MG 7kg

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DISCLAIMER
assumes no liability for the operation and use of these products.
The owner and operator of these products should have the necessary experience and exercise common
sense. Said owner and operator must have a valid Model Airplane licence and insurance as required.
Assembly Instructions
Installation of the radio equipment
Components need:
Elevator: 2 mini servos 7 kg torque
Rudder: 1 mini servo 7 k torque
Ailerons: 2 mini servos 7 kg torque
Flaps: 2 mini servos 7 kg torque
Steering nose wheel: 1 mini servo 6 kg torque
Receiver and switch
We strongly recommand the use of a Power box system for the big number servos
2 lipo batteries 3000 mah will be necessary to obtain the correct CG

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Stabs
Elevator control horn :
Protect the border of the hole with tape to have
a nice gluing.
Sand the border to increase glue adhesion.
Sand the bottom of the carbon control horn for a
good glue adhesion.
Glue the control horn in the elevator with 5
minutes epoxy. Take care to insert enough
glue in the slot.
Servo :
Fix the servo on the plastic servo cover : you
can glue it with hot glue or silicone glue or
double face tape.
Secure it with 2 screws
Use a plastic servo control horn.The steel link
will be at 11 mm from the servo axis.
Drill a hole under the stab between the 2
fixation hole for the servo electric wiring.

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Connect the servo with 2 x M2
links and threated rod.
Apply threated lock on the link.
Put the servo cover on the stabs.
Drill 4 holes 1 mm diameter in the stab for the screws.
Screw the servo cover in the stabs with 4 parker screws.
Connect the control hon

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Rudder
Rudder control horn :
Protect the border of the hole with tape to have a
nice gluing.
Sand the border to increase glue adhesion.
Sand the bottom of the carbon control horn for a
good glue adhesion.
Glue the control horn in the rudder with 5
minutes epoxy. Take care to insert enough glue
in the slot.
Servo :
Fix the servo on the plastic servo cover : you can glue it
with hot glue or silicone glue or double face tape.
Secure it with 2 screws
Use a plastic servo control horn.The steel link will be at
14 mm from the servo axis.
Put the servo cover on the rudder.
Drill 4 holes 1 mm diameter in the stab for the screws.
Connect the servo with 2 x M2 links and threated rod.
Screw the servo cover on the rudder with 4 parker screws.
Connect the servo to the fiber horn.
Apply threated lock on the link.

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Electric wiring :
Make a hole in the top of the rudder
corresponding to the stab wire location.
Insert the wiring in the rudder and fuselage.
Put the 2 servo connector outside the rudder
througt the hole (use a flexible wire to guide
them).
We recommand the fill the hole so that the
connector can’t fall in the rudder.
The wiring must be secured to the fuselage
and protected against the engine heat (tailpipe
and turbine).

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Wings
Aileron and flap control horns :
Protect the border of the hole with tape to have a
nice gluing.
Sand the border to increase glue adhesion.
Sand the bottom of the carbon control horn for a
good glue adhesion.
Glue the control horns in the wings with 5 minutes
epoxy. Take care to insert enough glue in the slot.
Drill a large hole in the wing root for the electric wiring and
gear tubing.

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Insert the electric wiring in the wing :
The flap wire must pass throught the aileron servo location
to come back to the wing root (see pics).
Holes in plywood spare are already done.
The electic wiring is drawin in red on the following
drawing.
Servo :
Fix the servo on the plastic servo cover : you can glue it
with hot glue or silicone glue or double face tape.
Secure it with 2 screws
Use a plastic servo control horn.The steel link will be at 11
mm from the servo axis.

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Aileron servo.
Flap servo.
Put the 2 servo covers on the wing.
Drill 8 holes 1 mm diameter in the wing for the screws.
Connect the 2 servos with 2 x M2 links and threated rod.
Screw the servo covers in the wings with 8 parker screws.
Connect the servos to the fiber horns.
Apply threated lock on the link

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Main landing gear :
Please, use only the oleo legs supply by Aviation Design.
If you use standard oleo, you will have to modify the gear position and gear door position
Connect the gear tubing and brake tubing.
Insert the tubing throught the wing (the holes are already done in the plywood spare).

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Put the air tubing outside from the wing root.
Insert the main gear on the plywood support.
Screw each gear with 4 parker screws 3.5 x 20 mm.
Attach the brake tube on the legs.

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Fuselage
Steering servo :
Screw the servo on the aluminium support
Use a plastic servo control horn.The steel link will be at 11 mm from
the servo axis.
Connect the servo to the aluminium steering arm with a 3mm
plastic ball ling and steel link
Screw the steel link to the servo arm with a 2 mm screw and nut
Front gear :
Screw the front gear on the plywood frame with 4
CHC 3 x 20 screws.
Install the air tubes.
Retract the front gear.

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Insert the full assembly and and screw it on
the front plywood mount with 4 screws CHC
3 x 20 + 4 large roundels.
Electric wiring :
We recommend to make a large hole in the fuselage between the 2 wing tubes for the air tubing.
And fix a plug connector in front of front wing tube for the wing servo connector

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Fuel tank
Connect the fuel tank to the clunk as the photo with
brass tube and Tygon tube.
Insert the fuels tanks in the fuselage against the inlets.
The fuel tank can be fixed with rubber or glued in place.
Drill a 5 mm hole in the bottom of the fuselage just in front of the fuel tank for the fuel air vent.
The fuel tank is connected to the BVM UAT to be sure
that there is no bubble in the fuel line.
The tubing from the main tank to the catch tank and to the
catch tank to the fuel pump must be gasoline tubing (no
silicone tubing). Also for the air vent tube.
The BVM tank will the attached to the front frame with
plastic T rap
Filling the fuel tanks :
Connect your pump and fill the system in direction of the tank. It will first fill the catch tank and after
the main tank. The main tank will be full when fuel come from the air vent tube.
When tanks are full, close the filling tubing.
Do not close the air vent tube after.
The system is ready for starting.

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Turbine installation:
If necessary, cut the edge of the fiber inlet for the electric starter location (depending of the total
turbine length)
Adjust the position of the engine / beginning of the exhaust tube so the engine exhaust enter for about
10 to 20 mm in the aluminium inlet.
This dimension is very important. If the engine is too much inside the aluminium inlet, there will be
some problem of under pressure in the fuselage and some overheat temperature on the exhaust pipe
The engine must be screw with 4 times 3x20 mm parker screw
Take care that the engine is perfectly in the middle of the exhaust pipe. If necessary, add some washer
under the engine mount to be in the middle of the pipe.
If during flight you have a pitch down effect, you will have to put the engine a little down

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Secure all electric wire and fuel tubing in front of the
engine in the fuselage