Aviation Design super scorpion User manual

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SUPER SCORPION
Assembly
Manual
ZI le chenet, 91490 Milly La Foret, FRANCE
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E-mail : aviation.des[email protected]r
www.aviation-design.fr
Version 01/03/2014

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INTRODUCTION
Super scoRpion is our new jet trainer. It is fully composite, delivered assembled and painted.
It is designed for jet beginner with following objective :
-Very easy to fly.
-Short take off and landing due to big airfoil thickness (13%), large flaps and low wing loading
-Very fast assembly
-Easy access to engine (big engine hatch)
-Easy access to fuel tank , ECU and radio with a large fuselage hatch
-Easy radio installation with big fuselage hatch and servo cover supplied
The Super scoRpion is fully molded in composite material.
The model comes to you finished, fully molded in composite material and painted in mold. All
bulkeads are glued. All control surfaces are hinged. No gluing are required. This model has plug in
wings, stabs and fin booms for an easier transport.
All necessary hardware are included in the parcel
Assembly require only few hours to fit engine and radio.
Super scoRpion ARF model includes :
- High quality epoxy-glass fuselage painted.
- All plywood and wood parts premounted.
- Fully molded wings with winglets, stabs and fins painted
- High tensile aluminum wing joining tube.
- Access hatch and canopy requiring no additional framework.
- Fiber exhaust cone
- All hardware (screws, servo cover, ...)
- Instructions in English with pics.

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Parts required to complete the kit :
-4.2 liters kevlar fuel cell
-or 4.2 liters tank + UBT
-1.1 liter smoker tank
-Deluxe retractable landing gear with special CNC oleo legs and wheels
set on bearing + brakes
-Or Deluxe gear + 2 electovalves for gear and brakes
-Air brake
-Or air brake with electrovalve
- Clear canopy
-Interior cockpit
-Stainless steel exhaust pipe
Wings, rudders, stabs protection covers
-Navy US decals or Russian decals
-Led afterburner

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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: 4 servos 13 kg torque or 2 servos of 25 kg torque
Rudder: 2 servos 6 kg torque
Ailerons: 2 servos 8 kg torque
Flaps: 2 servos 8 kg torque
Steering nose wheels: 1 servo 7 kg torque
Receiver and switch
We also recommand the use of a Power box system or similar system required for the big number of
high torque servos
Joining front fuselage to rear fuselage
Insert 6 x M 5 blind nut in the rear section
Screw the front fuselage to the rear fuselage with six 5 mm x
20 mm allen screws
To disassemble the front fuselage you will have to remove
the fuel tank

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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
Fit the main gear on the plywood mount
Screw each gear with four 4x16 mm allen screws
Fit the front gear on the plywood mount
Screw the front gear with four 4x16 mm allen screws
Screw the steering servo inverted on the plywood frame

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Make a hole in the plywood frame for the steering steel wire.
Connect servo to steering arm with 2 mm link + steel wire .
Check that the nose gear retract and extand without problem
witht he steering wire.
Connect all gear tubing as described in the gear manual
Fit the brake tubings and attach them with T rap
The air bottle can be fitted under the plywood plate in the nose.
You can hold it wth T rap
If necessary, add 2 soft springs or rubber bands to extand the
wire when the front gear retract

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Stabs
Servos installation
Important : the servo MUST be a high quality servo, 12 kg torque, with metallic gears.
It is also possible to use one single 25 kg torque servo for each stab
Screw the 2 servos on the plywood mount
Connect the 2 servo arms with M3 link. We also recommand the use of aluminium servo arm.
Test the 2 servos working together
The servo lead must be fixed to the fuselage and protected from engine.
Ball link and control horn
Fit the ball link of the M4 threated rod. Please take care that there is one way to fit the ball link so the
link cannot be disassembled to the ball when screwed.
Screw the ball link on the control horn with M3 screw and secure with blind nut

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Stabs installation
Important : the 2 stabs MUST be balanced
Slide the stab in the tube.
Check again the clearance of the stab and the fuselage. The stab must not touch the fuselage when it
rotate.
Slide the aluminium control arm on the tube. Insert a plastic
washer between wood and control horn.
Put the stab horizontal. Put the control arm vertical.
Screw and secure the 2 screws
Drill a 2.5 mm hole through the arm and through the aluminium
tube to secure it. Tapping it with M3 screw-tap.

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Connect the servo to the arm with the large M4 ball link and M4 threaded rod.
Glue them with threadlock.

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Aileron and flaps servos :
Screw the servo in the servo cover (we recommand to glue it with silicon glue or double face tape for
more security)
Put in position the servo cover on the wings
Drill 4 x 1 mm hole in the wings for the screws
Cut a slot in the control surface for the fiber control horn
Glue with fast epoxy the control horn
Connect two 3 mm link with M3 threaded rod
Screw the servo cover with the 4 parker screws
Connect the servo with the control horn
Apply thread lock.
Flaps control horn
Aileron control horn

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Make a 15 mm hole in the wing root for the
servo electric wire
Don’t make the hole too big so that the conector
can’t fall in the wing
Sold electric wire for the flaps and aileron
Make a 5 mm corresponding hole in the fuselage
for the electric wire
Don’t make the hole too big so that the conector
can’t fall in the fuselage

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Secure the wings :
Fit the wing joiner tube through the fuselage.
Take care to put it at the center (same lenght left and right (about 300 mm).
Install the left and right wings.
A pre drill is already done under both wings on the lower surface to secure the tube
Assemble one wing on the tube and against the fuselage.
Make a 2.5 mm hole in the tube
Threated the wing tube at M3 mm and secure wing with a M3x25 screw
Assemble the second wing on the tube and against the fuselage and check they are perfectly join to the
fuselage..
Make a 2.5 mm hole in the tube
Threated the wing tube at M3 mm and secure the second wing with a M3x25 screw
You can also secure the tube in the fuselage but it is not necesary.
Make a 2.5 mm hole in the center of the fuselage from the engine hatch. Drill the hole throught the
fiber tube and aluminium tube to secure the tube.
Screw a 3 x 16 mm parker screw through the tubes, so the tube will not move during assembling and
desassembling.
If you don’t put a screw in the fuselage, we recommand to make a strip with waterproof pen on the
aluminium tube and wing root. So it will be easy to find good position when you will secure the wings.

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Rudder servos :
Process as the wing servo :
Screw the servo in the servo cover (we recommand to glue it with silicon glue for more security)
Put in place the servo cover on the fin
Drill 4 x 1 mm hole in the wings for the screws
Glue with fast epoxy the control horn
Connect two 3 mm link with M3 threaded rod
Screw the servo cover with the 4 parker screws
Connect the servo with the control horn
Apply thread lock.
Make a 20 mm hole in the fin root for the servo electric
wire.

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Make a 5 mm corresponding hole in the
fuselage for the electric wire.
Don’t make the hole too big so that the
conector can’t fall in the fuselage.
Sold electric wire for the 2 rudder in Y
Secure the fins :
Fit the fins on the fuselage.
Make a 2.5 mm hole at 15 mm from
the fin root throught the fuselage and
aluminium tube to secure the fins
Threated the tube and fuselage at M3
mm and secure fin with a M3x15
screw

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Fuel tank
Connect the fuel tank to the clunk as the photo.
Drill a 3 mm hole in the bottom of the fuselage for the
fuel vent
The fuel tank is connected to the small catch tank (200
cc) or UAT catch tank 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 catch tank is glue with double face tape or with
rubber band on the top of the main tank.
Hold the fuel tank with rubber bands or silicon glue
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 ful, close the
filling tubing.
Do not close the air vent tube after.
The system is ready for starting.
Fuel vent

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Smoker tank
A 1.1 liter smoker tank can be fitted in the
Scorpion.
It can be fitted on the top of the main kevlar fuel
tank
Connect the fuel tank to the clunk as the photo.

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TAILPIPE EXHAUST
To insert the tailpipe in the plane, you will have
to disassemble the from aluminium cone from
the steel pipe.
Fit the steel tailpipe in the plane
Insert the aluminium cone in the fuselage.
Secure the cone with the pipe with its screw
and the aluminium pad
The aluminium cone is fix to the plywood
engine mount with 2 parker screws at 180 ° :
Drill the aluminium ring and the plywood and
srew the 2 parker screws
The end of the pipe will be hold by the fiber
exhaust cone on the double walded steel sheet
or will be hold on 3 plywood pads in the
middle of the exhaust fiber cone.

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Fiber Exhaust cone :
Glue with CA a 6 mm wood pins on 2 opposite sides of the exhaust cone
Drill the 2 corresponding 6 mm
hole in the rear fuselage
Screw the tailpipe with 2 x 2mm parker screws to secure the
wood pins
You can also simply hold the tailcone with 2 parker screws that
you can fit from the inside of the tailcone between the exhaust
tube and the tailcone

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Engine installation :
If necessary, cut a hole in the inlets for the electric starter location
Adjust the position of the engine / beginning of the exhaust tube so the engine exhaust enter for about
20 mm in the aluminium inlet.
The engine must be screw with 4 times 3x20 mm parker screw to the rear position.
Secure all electric wire and fuel tubing in front of the engine in the fuselage

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ECU installation :
Fit the ECU in one side of the
plane.
Fit the fuel pump and valves
just rear to the ECU and hold
them with T rap.