CrshNBrn
Elite member
Great work! Your design skills are evident.
Anybody else scratch building tonight?
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Dutch Breeze
Active member
Mr Man
Mr SPEED!
Are you gonna post files?
Dutch Breeze
Active member
If they work 🤣
Mr Man
Mr SPEED!
mastermalpass
Master member
Cheers! Today saw the making of a plywood wing spar and the glueing together of base wing plates and spar to form the polyhedral. If my design skills were more evident i would have made the base wing one solid piece and had the fold-over top surface of the wing be the side with cuts in it. As err… For the polyhedral to work, I need to cut the fold-over top surface. 😅
Then I set a Y-link for the ESCs and bench tested the motors.
One motor started spooling up before the other - throttle is off set. No worries, power off, put the throttle to max and power on again. Some rather artistic chirps from the motors, had to move the throttle up and down about three times but they eventually armed… The problem persists, but the other way around. 😂 Ah well, probably gonna set differential thrust on these, so I can patch that up in trim.
Did you try calibrating one esc at a time? Disconnect one, calibrate, then reconnect, disconnect the other, calibrate, reconnect. That might help.
mastermalpass
Master member
Did you try calibrating one esc at a time? Disconnect one, calibrate, then reconnect, disconnect the other, calibrate, reconnect. That might help.
Hmm, I’ll give that a try. The motor chirps were certainly odd. For some movements only one motor chirped then on following movements the other chirped. Then they both chirped together as they armed. Maybe the receiver was struggling to read the feedback from two ESCs on the one channel.
By the way, I am correct in thinking that when connecting two ESCs to a receiver on a Y-Link, that I take the red wire from one of the ESCs out of the connection, aren’t I?
Mr Man
Mr SPEED!
Yup, having both will fry your receiver.
Hyperdrive
Member
I've been spending a lot of time in Fusion 360 making CAD models to do with the FT Tiny Trainer.
I might post all of them here when I am done.
(Don't ask why I suddenly felt the need to share this)
I might post all of them here when I am done.
(Don't ask why I suddenly felt the need to share this)
Flyingshark
Master member
Last night I reattached the tail of my Tiny Trainer after a bad crash in some rainy weather a little before Christmas. It's several years old at this point but I have a hard time justifying scrapping a plane that wouldn't be too difficult to repair!
I'll be taking it out again tomorrow, so hopefully the repairs hold!
I'll be taking it out again tomorrow, so hopefully the repairs hold!
Brian B
Elite member
Not building yet, but working on an EDF Foamboard design for a Phantom Cruiser (II) from Space Ghost. Something about the box wing in-flight with the heavily swept tip-fins always reminded me of this cartoon plane from my childhood.
Can you see the similarity if you squint?
Can you see the similarity if you squint?
mastermalpass
Master member
The wing’s coming along. Got engine cores in and folded the wing over with some nav lights to boot.
Captain J
Well-known member
Howdy 🤠
new here. first post.
i started flying rc planes recently, purchased one of those amazon $99 twin prop F22 raptors you are seeing everywhere. i pretty much pushed those planes to their absolute max, literally flew the paint off them. I started flying those till something broke, would fix or replace until air frame was destroyed, pull the electronics and build my own plane. did the same with the volantex 400mm warbird series (still love).
I struggle to figure out how to make since of transmitters & receivers, but purchased a millennial flerken, power pack f, and radiomaster cc2500.
i have built several sub 100 gram planes, below is my first “real” plane. i was aiming for 250 grams without battery and went over, air frame loaded is 315 grams, with battery 400 grams.
power pack f (6x4.5 prop)
aura 5 lite
11.1v 100c 850mah
cc2500
anyways, finished it up last night. controls work….i think. throttle, ailerons, elevators work (used a servo reverse circuit for one rear servo, two rear servos for elevators). still figuring out transmitter and how to turn on stabilizer.
but this is what i was building last night…
new here. first post.
i started flying rc planes recently, purchased one of those amazon $99 twin prop F22 raptors you are seeing everywhere. i pretty much pushed those planes to their absolute max, literally flew the paint off them. I started flying those till something broke, would fix or replace until air frame was destroyed, pull the electronics and build my own plane. did the same with the volantex 400mm warbird series (still love).
I struggle to figure out how to make since of transmitters & receivers, but purchased a millennial flerken, power pack f, and radiomaster cc2500.
i have built several sub 100 gram planes, below is my first “real” plane. i was aiming for 250 grams without battery and went over, air frame loaded is 315 grams, with battery 400 grams.
power pack f (6x4.5 prop)
aura 5 lite
11.1v 100c 850mah
cc2500
anyways, finished it up last night. controls work….i think. throttle, ailerons, elevators work (used a servo reverse circuit for one rear servo, two rear servos for elevators). still figuring out transmitter and how to turn on stabilizer.
but this is what i was building last night…
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tamuct01
Well-known member
I just picked up a Pilot Christen Eagle kit that's about 80% complete. The previous owner says he built it when he was 16 and it's been hanging in his house ever since. It's never been flown but suffered a fall and some hanger rash, but it looks like a complete kit. I'll be going over it and finishing up the ailerons, covering, and various other components.
From my research, this kit was made in the 80's and 90's. I have some of the original plans, and I've found the complete set of plans online. This should be a fun project. I'm not sure if I'll do an electric conversion or stick to the recommended 40-60 size glow motor.
From my research, this kit was made in the 80's and 90's. I have some of the original plans, and I've found the complete set of plans online. This should be a fun project. I'm not sure if I'll do an electric conversion or stick to the recommended 40-60 size glow motor.
L Edge
Legendary member
With the price of 5-10% nitro extremely high, best to go to electric. If you do go glow, get the 60, the 40 is underpowered.
CrshNBrn
Elite member
Welcome! Your F-117 looks great. Good luck with the build- know that you can always share your successes (and failures!) in this forum. There's lots of folks here for support, advice, or good-natured "ribbing" along the way. Have fun with your foamboard!
cyclone3350
Master member
I luv those finds. Like L Edge stated, keep the motor on larger side & U should have a blast flying it. I'm thinking a 5055 600kv ish on a 5-6s for the electric. Post the fiinished product when done.
tamuct01
Well-known member
It calls for a 40 in 2-stroke and a 60 in 4-stroke. I'll probably go electric, but I'll have to engineer some kind of battery hatch.
Brian B
Elite member
With that motor prop setup it should be pretty fast. Looking forward to seeing that one completed!
