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I’m starting over with another modded Simple Stick. I’ll call it The Phoenix. I like the reduced size fuselage, about minus 25%. 1st one flew really nice for the short duration I kept it airborne. Of the models I’ve built that my club members buddy boxed for me, they commented on how well they flew, how easily they’d roll & loop & how they flew straight & level on the maiden launch needing almost no trimming. I’m quite proud of that. Except for my first Bloody Baron that rolled viscously & the buddy box guy said was suitable only for experts, needed an assistant to trim the roll out of it. Then I realized that I had left it on high rate but told him it was low rate.
On low rate it was trimmed & stable but still a bit too much for me. Buddy box guy brought it down in one piece & I still have it to fly again.
Thereafter, I’ve been building slow flying motor glider styles & this one will be like that too. I‘ll build a long tapered wing & also a cardboard shipping box to transport the plane in the bed of my Ranger. Other than that, nothing fancy. I want to take my time building it & get it in the air on a calm early morning.