Flite Fest 2025 General Discussion Thread
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Flyingshark
Master member
That looks repairable at first glance! Do you think you'll fly it again?
dcoombe
Member
Yep, It flew again before we left.
Flyingshark
Master member
That's awesome! It's a really good looking plane, it's good it's back in the air
I was really impressed with how stable it looked in the air! The extended cartwheel upon "landing" was impressive too! I was working the flight line for all the combats and didn't get any footage of it.
I know "Chasin' Jason" with the Flite Crew was up getting footage at most of the combats and the organized flying events gathering chase footage for Flite Test. Keep an eye out for the videos that they are working to publish.
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Foamforce
Elite member
Next year we should have an early Sunday morning extra combat! I want one more, but I need to be on the road before the 11:00am combat. Maybe have a 9:00am early-bird combat on Sunday. One more chance to reduce my inventory before the long drive home. 🙂
FF this year was wonderful! It sure started with a bang. My neighbor announced a storm expected in 20 minutes, and about 2 minutes later it slammed us. My boys and I had just stepped into the tent when the wind hit. The west wall of the tent folded backwards almost immediately. We jumped into action and held the wall up against the wind but it was a losing battle. I told one of my boys to open the windows to relieve the pressure and that helped a lot, at the expense of adding a swimming pool inside our tent. After that, I was running around outside adjusting the guy wires. My boys were laughing throughout, it was just a fun adventure for them. We mopped up and didn’t lose much, just a couple broken plastic bits on our tent, which I’ve found already on thingiverse.
My older son finished a plane that he’d been thinking about for a long time. He took a 140% Bloody Wonder and converted into a biplane. It looks great and flew great! It was underpowered, but adequate. It made it through a couple days of combat before being taken out.
We made every combat through Saturday night. I got two confirmed kills and probably one or two others. A problem I have is that when I hit somebody, I focus so much on saving my own plane that I have no idea what happened to the other plane. I saw each of my boys get a kill each too. It was a blast!
FF this year was wonderful! It sure started with a bang. My neighbor announced a storm expected in 20 minutes, and about 2 minutes later it slammed us. My boys and I had just stepped into the tent when the wind hit. The west wall of the tent folded backwards almost immediately. We jumped into action and held the wall up against the wind but it was a losing battle. I told one of my boys to open the windows to relieve the pressure and that helped a lot, at the expense of adding a swimming pool inside our tent. After that, I was running around outside adjusting the guy wires. My boys were laughing throughout, it was just a fun adventure for them. We mopped up and didn’t lose much, just a couple broken plastic bits on our tent, which I’ve found already on thingiverse.
My older son finished a plane that he’d been thinking about for a long time. He took a 140% Bloody Wonder and converted into a biplane. It looks great and flew great! It was underpowered, but adequate. It made it through a couple days of combat before being taken out.
We made every combat through Saturday night. I got two confirmed kills and probably one or two others. A problem I have is that when I hit somebody, I focus so much on saving my own plane that I have no idea what happened to the other plane. I saw each of my boys get a kill each too. It was a blast!
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Memories and experiences they will always remember. I am always impressed with how everyone steps up and helps each other and the whole community out immediately. Truely a blessing that no one was hurt especially in the build tents when they went down. This was my 5th FliteFest (17, 18, 23, 24, 25) Each one has been unique, and the Flite Test family has been awesome at every one.
dcoombe
Member
Awesome, thanks to you and Plane Fun!
That was great to watch back, because I didn't even see the head on collision that actually took out the plane. It happened so fast.
Flyingshark
Master member
That’s a very cool video! I wish FT would record the combats and share that, it was fun to go through that video and see when my plane popped up
FishbonesAir
Well-known member
We DEFINITELY were not in Kansas any more!Definitely DO NOT bring a small dog to Flite Fest! Toto! Where'd you go boy?!? 🤔
Foamforce
Elite member
I’ll tell him that you liked it!
Here it is, prior to combat. 🙂 We chose 140%, because that’s the largest that we could scale it up without splitting the wing into more sheets. The motor we had on it was underpowered, but it flew well regardless. I have the scaled plans for it, before we made it into a bi-plane, if you want. Converting it was pretty easy. We build a second identical wing, then re-mounted one on the bottom, about an inch back, and one at the top, two inches forward from the bottom wing. IIRC, we used the original COG and it worked pretty well. To mount the bottom wing, we used half of the new wing (before we glued it together), and placed it next to the fuselage and traced the shape on the side and cut that out. To mount the top wing, we stacked a few rolls of tape on either side to elevate the wing to the same height on either side, eyeballed the alignment, and started stabbing BBQ skewers through. It turned out pretty well considering the rough “engineering”. 🙂 He will be thrilled to hear that you liked it though!
Update: The big washer on the nose reminded me that we needed to add nose weight. So on our next one, just using a bigger motor will probably balance it nicely.
Piotrsko
Legendary member
The alternative is to remove weight aft of the CG, OR stretch the firewall a wee bit forward. Couple 3 more layers of firewall ought to do that providing the mounting screws can be long enough to go through all layers. I have hole sawed the elevator and rudder then covered that with thin packing tape and swiss cheesed the fuselage.
Good lord that biplane wonder is sexy
Was it way too twitchy with the aft CG?
Good lord that biplane wonder is sexy
Was it way too twitchy with the aft CG?
Foamforce
Elite member
Yeah, I was thinking about a longer nose too, but I thought that the motor might do it. However, making the nose longer would also allow us to use a smaller battery, since we were using a 3300. Maybe we’ll make it so that it balances with a 2200.
When we initially flew it without the washer, it was a little twitchy, but not too bad. The washer cleared that right up.
FlyerInStyle
Master member
I just found this thread and had a lot of fun reading through it, I jsut want to say @LitterBug thanks for helping me put my yield sign plane out there, and giving it its own way to participate in combat.
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