Whoaaaaaayou bet I have something in my head and nothing on paper .But I think a plane in an hour from design to fly . I'll keep you all posted.
How many is that for you now? And, did you do anything different in this current build? Sorry, one more, what kind of indoor space do you get to fly at?New duck ready for maiden
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Baby Blender.C pack it is thanks guys! Now what are some first plane with the C pack thoughts?
Even with hot glue I can't do thatyou bet I have something in my head and nothing on paper .But I think a plane in an hour from design to fly . I'll keep you all posted.
Welcome to the forums @DutchRoll! I’m glad you’ve been having success with the EZ glider! Any pictures or videos? Don’t feel too bad about the SS kit! I’ve got bilateral HG burn scars on my arms now so I’m still bad at safety I guess 🙃 not sure if you saved the cut outs for the SS but if you did you could try again with some dollar foam. I went through 6 mini scouts and 2 tiny trainers really quickly in the beginning😝
With your B pack you could try the simple scout or the cub too! (I’m already hearing kitfox being shouted in the background 😉)
Anyways, keep at it and don’t hesitate to ask for help here on the forums!
With your B pack you could try the simple scout or the cub too! (I’m already hearing kitfox being shouted in the background 😉)
So, I've been lurking on the forums for a while and haven't posted much yet. However, I have been busy. Over the holidays, I taught myself to use SketchUp via YouTube, etc., and created my first plane. 100% designed and built by me...
Behold, my Robotech Alpha Fighter!
Still a work in progress...
I guess I should video thisyou bet I have something in my head and nothing on paper .But I think a plane in an hour from design to fly . I'll keep you all posted.
Few notes on the longEZ. It can be a handful, but is also a blast to fly! Getting the thrust angle on the motor just right may take a bit of trial and error. On the 100% version the wing folds easy, adding a bbq skew under the wing through the fuse fixes this. The stock battery hatch is a real pain to get the skewer in every time, just about any other solution for latching the hatch would be better (maybe magnets on a scaled up version) Keep the throws small with lots of expo on low rates, this will help tame it down (ailerons esspecially to tame out the squirly roll rate). Also make sure you have a high rate with full throws, fast cork screwing is fun!Made a Flite Test Long-EZ chuck glider two weeks ago (first foam plane in over 35 years for me) - flew it for about 15 tosses before it hit a post and ripped the left wing off of it. It's repaired but ugly (repaired wing has pronounced anhedral - still flies fine though) so I call it Fugly, short for Foam Ugly. My favorite plane from my youth was the UGLY STICK, so I think I'll call most of my planes some variant of ugly.
Last weekend I bought the Simple Soarer kit from a HobbyTown store, and tried to put it together, but after about half a dozen paper cuts and a couple of hot glue burns, all I ended up with was a warped wing (polyhedral failed). And when I tried to put the control rods on the elevator, I slipped and ripped the tail right off the boom. It all ended up in the trash.
So last night I printed out the plans for another Long-EZ, since that's my only successful Flite Test Foamy to date, but I scaled the print 132% so that I can fit the B-Pack power pod from the Simple Soarer into it.
Thanks! Ducks last forever (last one I had did over 300 flights), so totaly worth taking the time to make it pretty!That's a good looking duck
Few notes on the longEZ. It can be a handful, but is also a blast to fly! Getting the thrust angle on the motor just right may take a bit of trial and error. On the 100% version the wing folds easy, adding a bbq skew under the wing through the fuse fixes this. The stock battery hatch is a real pain to get the skewer in every time, just about any other solution for latching the hatch would be better (maybe magnets on a scaled up version) Keep the throws small with lots of expo on low rates, this will help tame it down (ailerons esspecially to tame out the squirly roll rate). Also make sure you have a high rate with full throws, fast cork screwing is fun!
Good luck and have fun!
I've thought about the Beta fighter. However, it's all sorts of wrong angles and very little lifting area. I think it would only fly through the miracles of Robotechnology. (Hmm? Maybe a VTOL setup?) Let me know if you find some spare protoculture. I need the brain boost like Dr. Lang.Don't forget the Beta Fighter as well! And then you have to join them in flight!
My favorite from the Robotech series would be the little Logan fighter, but it's got itty-bitty wings, so I'm not sure it would fly very well.
Pics please!My dad's got a KitFox, so no shame there. But I've always been more partial to the Zenith Air CH-701, so if I'm gonna scratch build a STOL, it would be that.
Yup - I'm considering it! Does it fly off the F pack?@The Hangar, I noticed you liked one of my posts in my Dominator KFm thread. Are you gonna build one? If so you'd be the first one from the community to build it!
Yessir! I'll definitely follow the build if you do! Post away on that thread!Yup - I'm considering it! Does it fly off the F pack?
Ok, sweet! I'll probably start next week.Yessir! I'll definitely follow the build if you do! Post away on that thread!
I was referring to the pitch angle. There is no perfect angle, you end up adjusting to suit your flying style.Yeah, I was doing some research on the flight characteristics. The title might say Long-EZ, but it's closer to a Velocity in design, in that the canard is inline with the wing. One of the characteristics of canard design that concern me is that at high angles of attack, the canard blanks the wing root, robbing it of lift. The canard blanking also in turn exacerbates issues with dutch rolls. I had wanted to move the elevators to the canards on the 132%, but I had been concerned that at full down, the elevator would act as a a spoiler to the wing, disrupting the air flow and causing it to stall. One of the solutions I read about is to add vortex generators to the mid line of the canard to help "glue" the air down, so that might be something I could try to help with the squirrliness.
Are you referring to the yaw angle or the pitch angle for the thrust angle of the motor? And I added three skewers to keep the wings and canards from breaking off.
100% version on top of the 132% version, with the B-pack firewall for scale.
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Wellcome on board the flying ship buddy. Don't feel bad about the Simple Soarer I hadn't had much success building it either and I built a few planes before tackling that one. I would highly recommend the Tiny Trainer as a super fun plane to learn to fly with if you need to get back into flying. Otherwise if you are more expreinced you can try anything with a B or C pack motor. You can also check out this resource to check what build options you have for either the B pack or C pack motor. https://forum.flitetest.com/index.p...l-the-ft-models-with-electronics-required.64/Made a Flite Test Long-EZ chuck glider two weeks ago (first foam plane in over 35 years for me) - flew it for about 15 tosses before it hit a post and ripped the left wing off of it. It's repaired but ugly (repaired wing has pronounced anhedral - still flies fine though) so I call it Fugly, short for Foam Ugly. My favorite plane from my youth was the UGLY STICK, so I think I'll call most of my planes some variant of ugly.
Last weekend I bought the Simple Soarer kit from a HobbyTown store, and tried to put it together, but after about half a dozen paper cuts and a couple of hot glue burns, all I ended up with was a warped wing (polyhedral failed). And when I tried to put the control rods on the elevator, I slipped and ripped the tail right off the boom. It all ended up in the trash.
So last night I printed out the plans for another Long-EZ, since that's my only successful Flite Test Foamy to date, but I scaled the print 132% so that I can fit the B-Pack power pod from the Simple Soarer into it.