I have made some of the FT flyers and I sill having problems flying . I built the bloody wonder and have no attempted to fly it as of yet. Your phrase saying it is a successful flyer I will need to set it up to fly when wet weather goes away.
love the paint scheme you used. Might do an article on that
Carl Harden
Carl,
First of all, welcome to the forums and the Flite Test family. I started out like you with the FT Flyer about a 1.5 years ago. Actually, I tried the Nutball, Flyer and Delta all on a 24 gram 2S setup with very little success. I was brand new to RC, Scratch Building, Electronics, and Flying at the time. I did a lot of crashing and repairing with those at first and was starting to get a little discouraged.
It wasn't until I built my first FT Bloody Wonder (BW) that I felt like I was going to be able to really build and fly my own RC airplanes. My first BW was the light setup with the hexTronik 24 gram motor, 10 amp Plush ESC, and a 1000 mah 3S battery with an 8 x 6 prop. I setup the low throws per the Flite Test videos. I started to have a lot of success and would say that I taught myself to fly on that plane. Within a month I upgraded to the bigger "Beef" electronics setup and was flying combat with my son. I introduced my Brother and nephew to RC and they learned to fly on the Bloody Wonder as well, with no prior RC experience.
Bottom line, I think you'll like the Bloody Wonder.
The "paint" i used is actually just colored packing tape that I bought from tapebrothers.com. The graphics were printed on regular printer paper and clear taped on as well.