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Wing - One Piece: The wing is made in one piece with a 1.5 meter / ~ 59" projected span. It has 1.7 oz. Kevlar skin over 25 lb. Square Edge foam cores, and Kevlar doublers. Hard points and carbon darts are embedded into the wing centerline. Wiring channels are ready for set-up, reaching from the auto-connector point to the flaperon servo locations. Tip reinforcements are embedded on the throwing side, and are specified for right or left hand thrower at the time of order. The throwing tip has larger Kevlar doublers and internal carbon patches to support the throwing blade or peg. The carbon reinforcements are two layers each top and bottom, installed into the lay-up just aft of the spar. The wing comes with leading edges sanded, trailing edges trimmed, and hinges cut and ready for control installation. You cut servo holes as appropriate for your chosen servo, inboard under the amply reinforced center area.

Wing - Two Piece: The two piece wing option allows for shipping to countries not accepting a 60" box, but accepting of our standard 42" box. The wing is basically the same, except that you join the wing yourself.

Pod and Boom: The new pod makes everything very easy to install. Pod parts are mold-formed into the whole body and nose cone. This is different from the joggle gasketed half shells of the SG-II. A rear hatch eases access to the inside for installation.

The pod installs inside instead of around the boom. The pod comes already mounted to the boom, with pylon reinforcements and threaded pylons installed. A lightweight stab mount for the articulated stab is manufactured onto the boom for ultra-lightweight mounting.

The pylons extensions below the fuse are left intact. These extensions plug into an alignment jig, facilitating easy assembly and set-up. Then you cut them off and sand flush to the boom.

Tails: White Spyderfoam and 1 oz. Kevlar composite stab and rudder, hinged and ready for installation. The rudder is assymetrical to help counteract yaw, and specified for right or left hand throwers at time of order.

Additional Components: Throwing blade, .014 stainless elevator pushrod with Teflon housing, .018 stainless steel rudder pushrod with Teflon housing. Flaperon control horns (standard, not with the RDS option). Tail control horns.

Assembly

Structural completion is simple: Mount the wing onto the ready pylons, mount the rudder, and mount the stab. All other airframe steps are completed. Then install your gear and the provided control hardware.

The kit comes with a useful assembly jig to easily align the wing and tails during mounting. The pylons have extensions through the boom that fit into holes in the jig, setting the fusepod perpendicular to your building table. Most people can complete the structural assembly in about 2 hours.

There are easy step-by-step instructions for assembly and installation of electronics and controls. These steps parallel and consolidate already published information on assembling the Super Gee II, with some variation appropriate to the LightHawk.

LightHawk Specifications

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Availability / Ordering
RC Builder is now building the LightHawk DLG in all Kevlar. The LightHawk is a Super Gee II clone using commercial materials and methods. If you would like one or more LightHawks, order in our store, specifying options and throwing side. We will make your glider as specified. Payments in U.S. funds. Orders ship in sequence of date received.

Shipping

LightHawk with a one-piece wing utilizes a long heavy-duty box. Shipping to the U.S. and Canada is in a 62" double layer corrugated box. U.S. shipping is by Priority Mail, and Canada is by Airmail Parcel Post. Shipping with box is $45.00. For US addresses, Express Mail is available for $49.00, and Airmail Parcel Post (no tracking) is available for $35.00

Reasonable cost International shipping is available to many countries. To meet mailing requirements and protect the glider, our International box for one piece wings is 60" and is reinforced with wood. Box cost is $25.00, total shipping including box is usually $84.00

Note: The 60" and 62" boxes can be reused. We've lined our box on all sides with thin plywood. Reinforced this way, it becomes a good airline and general transportation box.

LightHawk with a two piece wing can be shipped to almost any country in the world in our 42" box.

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