800 Series | nnSpitfire

[JamesWhom]

That looks cracking!

 

[Grifflyer]

I flew it again with paint

 

[nerdnic]

Nice work! Looks to fly really good but the elevator looks to have a little too much throw. Do you guys enjoy flying it?

 

[andrej]

So i'm building the Spitfire using 6 and 3 mm depron.

Can you re-up pcitures, please?

 

[blutch]

This depron version of the nnSpitfire is ready for its maiden flight.
After building the Flitetest FTSpitfire and FTMustang I had to build the nnSpitfire 800. I think it looks more realistic then the FT version and has more detail...
Thanks for sharing your buildplans Nic!

 

[nerdnic]

Wonderful! You did an amazing job!

 

[blutch]

After 2 maiden(or is it remaiden?) flights with one big crash(see photo below) I finally got it in the air! CG was way too far to the tail during the first flight. I used the beta plans of his big brother for the tail, so it is tail heavier than it should be. I have to do some fine tuning to the controls but it is already flying great! It's much faster than the FT Spitfire of course so it is a bit more difficult to fly, but I will get used to the speed

 

[nerdnic]

Very nice! Once you got it in the air I cheered!

 

[blutch]

Thank you Nic! I have to improve the start though

 

[nerdnic]

Give it a harder toss and it will help!

Anyone else still flying their nnSpit? I got a lot of flights on mine before getting to brave and crashing it late last year. Now she’s just hanging on my wall

 

[blutch]

Give it a harder toss and it will help!

Yes, you are right! On the video I toss with my left hand for the first time(I am right-handed) to have more control over the rudder and elevator right from the start but that didn't work out as well as I had hoped More throttle did the trick with the last toss...

 

[nerdnic]

I'm glad it's flying well for you now!

 

[Grifflyer]

Anyone else still flying their nnSpit? I got a lot of flights on mine before getting to brave and crashing it late last year. Now she’s just hanging on my wall

Mine is still going strong but I haven't flown it in quite a while

 

[Yayat]

I am sorry if I asking to much, is there any tiled A4 plane for this one?

 

[nerdnic]

A4 paper should work. Try printing the plans with adobe reader like this:

 

[JakeTheSloth]

Nic, your plans are great and really well detailed but speedwing isn't working too well when you're just flying on FT pack setup. Stalls are pretty common when on low speed :/ I made some planes designed by you, mini P-39, 800mm MiG-3, 1m Ki-61 and 800mm Chipmunk with undercambered wings - Ki and MiG-3 were really nice to fly unless I was doing stupid stuff like hammerheads, spins or inverted 1 meter above ground the chipmunk was really easy to fly and it looked great (until my brother crashed it lol) I'd love to make and fly planes designed by you but with FT style wings (undercamber). I'll be really happy if you consider adding undercambered wings for your plans Keep up the great work !

 

[nerdnic]

Thanks for the feedback, jake

Is anyone else interested in an undercamber wing for my 800 Spit?

 

[jpot1]

+1 interested.

 

[nickf]

Thanks for the feedback, jake

Is anyone else interested in an undercamber wing for my 800 Spit?

Not really, thats the realm of the standard FT designs ??? !!!

! found your speed wing great, as to me it looks and flies better. I built your 1m beta spit design and really impressed by its flight characteristics: but not the way I built it. One wing has more lift than the other due to me trying to build it with stronger tips so it pulls to one side., but I'm going to build another properly - my next project.

nickf

 

[blutch]

Is anyone else interested in an undercamber wing for my 800 Spit?

If I want to fly slowly I take my FTMustang ot FTSpitfire. IMHO the nnSpitfire800 is great the way it is now. Very fast even with 3S (see video ). Only the start is still a bit tricky
I would be interested in a nnMustang800 though...