HI folk.
Hoping someone can help me out here.
I been flying for almost a year now, fly quite a few plug and fly.
But decided to build my very first scratch build.
Naturally I went with the F22 raptor because it's super easy and simple to cut, cut everything free hand with a box cutter.
basically cut 2 of everything from 3mm laminated foam and glued it together to add some strength.
Not sure what the weight of the plane is, but it feels quite heavy.
I put a 2218 1400Kv motor on it with an 8x4 prop to start with. Crashed it a few times trying to take off. xD
Couldn't figure out how to launch it, kept rolling and then hitting the floor.
eventually I got it flying by some stroke of luck. I mean really, a pure stroke of luck.
It flew, but it was horribly underpowered, as in extremely difficult to turn with bank and yank.
looses altitude even from the lightest turn, almost impossible to roll, and impossible to loop.
Then I put a 9x6 prop on the same motor and burned the motor to the point it failed and burned the mounting board brown.
I've ordered a new motor, 2830 1300KV and I'm going to put the 9x6 prop on it and try again.
Can you guys please take a look at what I said, take a look at the video of me flying it and advise on what it wrong here and how to fix it.
I feel that I built it to heavy, so my logic is put a bigger prop and motor to get the thrust way up from 730g to 1100g.
And 6 pitch for some more speed. link to vid is below. I get it to fly at 5:5 and after the landing, the next few launches are a complete disaster again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DZ8XvcyEw&feature=youtu.be
Hoping someone can help me out here.
I been flying for almost a year now, fly quite a few plug and fly.
But decided to build my very first scratch build.
Naturally I went with the F22 raptor because it's super easy and simple to cut, cut everything free hand with a box cutter.
basically cut 2 of everything from 3mm laminated foam and glued it together to add some strength.
Not sure what the weight of the plane is, but it feels quite heavy.
I put a 2218 1400Kv motor on it with an 8x4 prop to start with. Crashed it a few times trying to take off. xD
Couldn't figure out how to launch it, kept rolling and then hitting the floor.
eventually I got it flying by some stroke of luck. I mean really, a pure stroke of luck.
It flew, but it was horribly underpowered, as in extremely difficult to turn with bank and yank.
looses altitude even from the lightest turn, almost impossible to roll, and impossible to loop.
Then I put a 9x6 prop on the same motor and burned the motor to the point it failed and burned the mounting board brown.
I've ordered a new motor, 2830 1300KV and I'm going to put the 9x6 prop on it and try again.
Can you guys please take a look at what I said, take a look at the video of me flying it and advise on what it wrong here and how to fix it.
I feel that I built it to heavy, so my logic is put a bigger prop and motor to get the thrust way up from 730g to 1100g.
And 6 pitch for some more speed. link to vid is below. I get it to fly at 5:5 and after the landing, the next few launches are a complete disaster again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5DZ8XvcyEw&feature=youtu.be
The inner spoon of the prop is facing the tail. 
