Baa Baa Black Sheep, Have you any wool? Yes Sir, Yes Sir three Planes full!
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Thanks,
I did design and 3d print the mounts. They have slots that I glued the cut spar ends into with gorilla glue and also fit against the cross piece to act as a fillet. It ended up very strong, if not stronger than before. The rear wheel was tricky indeed. Although not ideal, I again printed a swivel mount for the wheel that came with the dynam retracts. I also printed a limiting stop to keep the swivel from turning more than 90° in any direction. It could easily be made steerable, if I had done it before the fuselage was assembled by attaching it to the rudder pushrod, however with the fuselage assembled and already having difficulty with the rudder pushrod sticking, I didn't want to screw it up. Perhaps a version 2 will happen when this one crashes😜
I forgot to take pictures of the tailwheel assembly, as I was too excited to finish, and at the moment it is masked off for paint. But here are some more pics of the mounting bracket.
mayan
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Generally when making a roll to the right I use just right aileron on 75-100% throttle and level out using up elevator. I realized that on lower speed around 50% throttle I some times have to push the elevator down when inverted on the part of the roll and then up elevator to exit the roll leveled. I think that using the rudder I can just get the roll done on lower speeds, yet to be tested.
mayan
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Looks amazing can’t wait for the maiden video
.Nice
kilroy07
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Very Nice!
I also have a set of those retracts, I can't wait to see your in action! (I was a tad worried they would look a bit out of scale, but they turned out fine.)
BATTLEAXE
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I did the rudder thing in my Scout maiden... HOLY CRAP was it fast and surprisingly lost next to no attitude. It was awesome. I was practicing some inverted and was doin these turns where you climb to vertical, half roll then level out to change direction, I'm sure there is a name for it. Looks cool though. and hammer turns I want to dial in as well
BATTLEAXE
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With the rudder and aileron input 100% to the right or the left depending on what direction you want to roll at 50% throttle was a quick roll with little to no loss of altitude
BATTLEAXE
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Lookin sweet though, will look better in the air
Update: she flew beautifully while she was in the air, retracts worked well, didn't change flight characteristics drastically, balance was perfect, but...I had a blackout. Don't know if it was the Rx or ESC, but after 2-3 minutes of flight, it lost all control and the motor went silent. When it dove to the ground the motor kicked back in and drove it hard straight down, didn't have time to recover. Don't know if I can straighten it all out again. May just use the parts to build Ver. 2. 🤕
CarolineTyler
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Awwwwww! Beautiful plane too!
Wildthing
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Fantastic job
Wildthing
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Depending on the amps for the BEC and with the added retract servos that could be your issue. You might have to run an external BEC that has 5 or more amp rating.
It's a 40amp esc, and the retracts were not drawing anything when it happened. I have come to the conclusion that the ESC was overheating, since it was flying perfectly up to the point that it dropped from the sky. I had it tucked in the battery compartment without any ventilation. When I rebuild it, I'll put it outside the power pod.
Wildthing
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No the BEC not ESC. Check what the amp rating is for the BEC.
It's a 3A BEC
bracesport
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