Ft viggen group build!
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moke
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not flown yet. still 'dinking' with it some. going to add rudder. On 'folded' wings, I just upsized the plans for FT Alpha to 150% . required minimal modifications to fit the viggen fuselage.
moke
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try 150% alpha, bravo or charlie wing.
Awesome! I've been considering doing surgery on my viggen and inserting two 64mm EDF's in mine...
Jase_MK
Member
Wider fuselage and two side by side?Awesome! I've been considering doing surgery on my viggen and inserting two 64mm EDF's in mine...
Yeah, they’ll both be side by side. I need to take some measurements but I’ll probably have to widen the fuselage a bit unless I want to move them farther forward...
slowjo
Master member
if I fly fast enough my wings r all folded
Intashu
Elite member
Alright so I got my hands on a 3d printed EDF I'm going to try to setup and fly with, and that got me on the VIggen, which led me to this thread, which made me see your plane with the upscaled wing. Now I gotta know, have you had a chance to try it yet? because I don't want to use a sheet of poster-board for a flat wing, and love this idea. but if it turns out terrible I don't want to to ruin my own plane attempting to copy it!
moke
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didn't work out so well for me. plane nosed up and looped on take off. Tried to adjust c.g. but same thing second time. Probably a way to make it work, but I couldn't figure it out. Going back to the standard wing.
Matthew Sanders
Elite member
You know what I think it is. I think that there is too much lift in the front. You could try to create less lift by re gluing the canards on dead level, instead of 10 degrees up like on the standard Viggen. Since its an EDF, I doubt that it could be a thrust angle problem, but maybe that could be a contributing factor. Did you by any chance happen to get a video?
moke
Well-known member
I think you are probably correct. but I destroyed it after two full loops so I gave up
Matthew Sanders
Elite member
Ouch. Sorry to hear that. Looking forward to seeing your next one!
L Edge
Master member
You are right on target about the +10 degrees on the canard. Mounted a 70mm EDF with movable canards(servos driven) on mine and ended up zero degrees for a slighly aft CG.
It’s been almost a year since the last post on this thread, but I have several edf’s coming in the mail, and I’m planning on building a viggen with one of them. It’ll be a 64mm 12 blade Eflite or freewing unit, I’ll have to look at the specs to decide which to use. I have the Eflite 64mm f-16 and it’s super fast, so I’m leaning toward the Eflite unit. Time to print off the plans!
Not that I’m aware of, but I’m sure it could be done. Tom Stanton scaled it down and built a 50mm version:
Matthew Sanders
Elite member
I'd love to join you @The Hangar since my first Viggen did not fly too well. Unfortunately, I'm working on my own EDF project right now... I'm just about to put together a new thread post about it now!
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