I decided to take on this “challenge”
Because basically I have made a couple of FT planes. Simple soarer, bushwacker, simple cup, guinea pig, simple scout. And decided to build something that I thought would would work best for me.
So I started last night at 8 pm I also used foam board I had sitting in my garage for about a year it was super wrapped and made a simple wing design Then I worked on the side of the fuselage in a 2d version I decided it should bed taller then 5 inches so I cut 2 strips 5” x 30”. Decided that I wanted it longer so I added about 15” as I don’t like the way the FT power pods are with the tabs that lock in place i just add a box for the pod to slide in no tabs. Anyway so I measured the front 1 1/2 “ tall then just picked an angle I liked and cut same thing on the bottom I then cut an angle. I decide the rudder and elevators were super important so I just grabbed. Design out of my bucket of plans just fit the first 2 rudder and elevater together. The only main problem I had during the building is the elevator was wrapped and it was preventing the servo from working properly so I cut it in half and added another servo with a
y connection so the 2 servos would work in unison. I actually think this helped with the Cg. I was so proud of this plane at midnight I went out and tossed it and it nearly flew across the street I knew it would fly well.
So this morning I went out and did a madden it flew wonderfully then a guy came out to the middle of the baseball field I was flying at with his metal detector I was afraid of bringing it back and hitting him so I decided to put it down on the other side of the field and of course I landed in my favorite spot right in a tree close to 40 feet up. I tried to link 3 10 foot pvc pips together and it was still too short so I think my next project it to build a potato gun lol.
Because basically I have made a couple of FT planes. Simple soarer, bushwacker, simple cup, guinea pig, simple scout. And decided to build something that I thought would would work best for me.
So I started last night at 8 pm I also used foam board I had sitting in my garage for about a year it was super wrapped and made a simple wing design Then I worked on the side of the fuselage in a 2d version I decided it should bed taller then 5 inches so I cut 2 strips 5” x 30”. Decided that I wanted it longer so I added about 15” as I don’t like the way the FT power pods are with the tabs that lock in place i just add a box for the pod to slide in no tabs. Anyway so I measured the front 1 1/2 “ tall then just picked an angle I liked and cut same thing on the bottom I then cut an angle. I decide the rudder and elevators were super important so I just grabbed. Design out of my bucket of plans just fit the first 2 rudder and elevater together. The only main problem I had during the building is the elevator was wrapped and it was preventing the servo from working properly so I cut it in half and added another servo with a
y connection so the 2 servos would work in unison. I actually think this helped with the Cg. I was so proud of this plane at midnight I went out and tossed it and it nearly flew across the street I knew it would fly well.
So this morning I went out and did a madden it flew wonderfully then a guy came out to the middle of the baseball field I was flying at with his metal detector I was afraid of bringing it back and hitting him so I decided to put it down on the other side of the field and of course I landed in my favorite spot right in a tree close to 40 feet up. I tried to link 3 10 foot pvc pips together and it was still too short so I think my next project it to build a potato gun lol.
