I was afraid that might be true. The Columbus Jets plane I'm building is basically plank with a baseball bat down the middle and an EDF on each wingtip.
Yeah and given the response times of EDFs (Slower to reach target power than a propeller due to speed), you would want good rudder authority.
You can always use clear plastic to make an "invisible" vertical stabilizer to help it track better
Do this
@Fidget, rocky's right on the money here
Was looking up stuff on the A-10 and found this:
The 'Machete' that could replace the A-10 Warthog: Radical lightweight metal foam attack plane with a PROPELLER
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That would be a neat one i see a few issues. Whoever is building this needs to be 100% on point with the tail boom design and the wing going up to it, like super skookum, no guessing, no second thoughts. You have the issues of imparted torque on the wing, changing angle of attack if the wing structure is not good, potential wing structure weakening if the area where the boom meets up with the wing cuts too deep into the spar. The boom itself is probably going to have to be a larger CF square tube because there is not a whole lot of room to work with, unless you make a bass/balsa box or something. And because the elevators/rudders aren't connected, you need to make sure your boom and interface between the boom and the wing can deal with rotational loads, because as soon as you crank elevator, its going to want to twist that tail boom, though you could counter this by having 2 rudder channels, one for the upper and lower rudder, and using automatically applied crow to cant the lower rudders out and the upper rudders in to apply torque to counter the rotation issue.
If you can work that out well though, that would be awesome. Probably could skimp out on counter rotating props if you wanted and still have power to load this thing up with little hardpoints and (droppable?) ordinance. I actually just picked up a CNC, so if you want some help with some custom wood stuff for this, lemme know (this is general for everyone here).
