Little did I know when I bought my first Lidl cheap foamie glider in 2019 and did my first RC conversion, that 7 years later there would be 23 Lidl and mini Lidl builds on my channel! 🤨And 90 videos with the word Lidl in the title. That first build blog has 65,000 views now, though a good few things improved along the way since that build. This video has a few tips for builders and is a quick look at all the builds from singles, to twins, 4 motors, EDF's, twin EDF, biplanes and a lot more. Might give some ideas? What next, that's the question? And apart from the Lidl's I have at 20+ other rc planes. I'm running out of space. ğŸ˜
Cheap Foamie Gliders - My 23 Lidl RC builds plus some good tips!
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That's a no from me! I reckon that would take some very clever flight controller and gyro programming way beyond my expertise!
Thanks. These cheap foamies are perfect for that!
Maybe it is time for me to build one. I have a simple idea to take a cheap brushed quad, move the motors to skewers on the wings and FC to fuselage, share roll/ pitch / yaw from the Radio, but have separate throttles and do manual transition.That's a no from me! I reckon that would take some very clever flight controller and gyro programming way beyond my expertise!
Have a go! I built a mini Lidl with a small drone board, the 4 motors and it flew well using differential thrust for yaw and throttle for climb and descend! Maiden is on my channel too. The configuration of the motors so that it would work with the control was important obviously!
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I did a power conversion on the big Lidl chuck glider.
My aim was not to see if it would fly but just how good a glider it could be. In other words I modified some of the basic Lidl features that would effect its glide performance and then added a power unit that would give the least interference to the glide.
This what I ended up with.
The light 18g motor is fully faired in with the folding prop spinner. It uses an 850mAh 2s LiPo.
The other notable changes are the printed "extensions" to bring the wing and tail trailing edges down to less than 1mm compared to the 3mm of the original mouldings. For maximum efficiency an aerofoil should taper to zero at the trailing edge.
Theses extensions also increase the wing and tail area slightly particularly for the small outboard ailerons.
The 3.7g aileron servos are imbedded flush into the wing as is the servo wire.
To save tail weight the elevator servo is also embedded in the fuselage just ahead of the wing with long pull/pull nylon lines to the double sided elevator horn.
Very light and mechanically efficient. The Lidl is flown AET so there is no rudder.
The end result is it only weighs 220g ready to go.
No rocket ship it flies quite slowly but has sufficient power coupled with its reasonable aerodynamics to easily perform simple aerobatics.
Fundamentally the Lidl is not really a high performance glider so I looked round for a better cheap foam subject but that is another story.
My aim was not to see if it would fly but just how good a glider it could be. In other words I modified some of the basic Lidl features that would effect its glide performance and then added a power unit that would give the least interference to the glide.
This what I ended up with.
The light 18g motor is fully faired in with the folding prop spinner. It uses an 850mAh 2s LiPo.
The other notable changes are the printed "extensions" to bring the wing and tail trailing edges down to less than 1mm compared to the 3mm of the original mouldings. For maximum efficiency an aerofoil should taper to zero at the trailing edge.
Theses extensions also increase the wing and tail area slightly particularly for the small outboard ailerons.
The 3.7g aileron servos are imbedded flush into the wing as is the servo wire.
To save tail weight the elevator servo is also embedded in the fuselage just ahead of the wing with long pull/pull nylon lines to the double sided elevator horn.
Very light and mechanically efficient. The Lidl is flown AET so there is no rudder.
The end result is it only weighs 220g ready to go.
No rocket ship it flies quite slowly but has sufficient power coupled with its reasonable aerodynamics to easily perform simple aerobatics.
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