We have achieved maiden! I know, I know, "Video, or it didn't happen..." Well the film is currently being developed and I'll post the proof up later on. I did not swap out the landing gear, and I'm not sure if that was hampering my rolling take off. I've seen other people post here on the forums about how it is tough to get off the ground. I would have to agree. I could stand to prop up a bit, or bump up to 4S. Once I got it in the air, It was not the easiest plane to fly. Was expecting it to be more like a trainer, than a handful. Made a few passes, at mid to high throttle, and it definitely likes more speed. Again, I could use more prop, or 4S to help with that. Running a 3S 1300mah, so not like I was overly weighted down. After it was in the air, I asked one of the guys at the field to get some footage. I may need to bleep out a word or two. The guys at the field were asking how it was flying, and I bluntly said it flew like complete
. About that time I decided to try out the hidden feature that was installed. I had a
LemonRX 7-channel stabilized RX laying around for a LOONNNNGGGG time and it never found a home. Being short on PWM RXes at the moment, i figured "why not?". Took off in full manual to trim things out. So after a few passes around the field and getting a bit of altitude, I flipped the Gyro stabilization on (CH5-Gear). OH HOLY COW! It was night and day different. Smooth as butter. It did oscillate a bit at higher speeds, so I turned the master gains (CH8 - AUX3) back a notch till it smoothed out. About that time, The sun also came out from behind the clouds and did a golden hour shining on the golden plane. Made a few more passes around the field till my flight timer went off. Always better to have a conservatively short timer on maiden than run out of battery. Wish I had made one or two more passes to test the Flapperons out. Instead I just flipped the flaps down on final which was not a good idea. Ended up with a non destructive cartwheel landing. Would have probably rolled out smooth even without the flaps but wanted to go extra slow for shiggles.
Off to download the Video from my buddy's server.... Back soon.
Cheers!
LitterBug