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[Timmy]

My grunjet only made it to the 3rd flight too haha. I was going to rebuild it but mine impacted too hard. I'll probably build another next week

well mine's is still flyable at least and I'll probably take it out for a spin later if the wind dies down a bit.
I'll make sure to get some footage this time.
Edit: good news, wind is dying down.
dying is a weird word.

 

[Timmy]

well mine's is still flyable at least and I'll probably take it out for a spin later if the wind dies down a bit.
I'll make sure to get some footage this time.
Edit: good news, wind is dying down.
dying is a weird word.

I did it

 

[Wildthing]

Well I made a transport cradle for the Madness today, I do have to deepen the slots where the wing sits in though. That fat wing and with the cradle is now it is about 1" to tall to fit under the tonneau cover. Actually I made two, the other one is for the Extra 300S.

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[Wildthing]

Well cut the slots right to the bottom and now the madness wing just fits into the back of the truck with 1/2" to clear. Drilled in some skewers to all the uprights for a little extra strength and found a used roll of rubber weather stripping to soften the contact edges.

 

[Timmy]

I think my gunjet only has a couple of flight sessions left in it. The poor thing is very beat up. What should my next EDF plane be? I don't want to do the F 22 because I think my 2200 4s is too heavy for it.
Maybe this: https://www.flitetest.com/articles/aermacchi-mb-339-scratchbuild-edf

 

[Wildthing]

I think my gunjet only has a couple of flight sessions left in it. The poor thing is very beat up. What should my next EDF plane be? I don't want to do the F 22 because I think my 2200 4s is too heavy for it.
Maybe this: https://www.flitetest.com/articles/aermacchi-mb-339-scratchbuild-edf

Do the same one and just scale it up 10% to help carry the extra weight.

 

[Timmy]

Do the same one and just scale it up 10% to help carry the extra weight.

ooh.

 

[mrjdstewart]

finished printing main body and cage joints. pretty happy so far.

plan is to do a temp hot glue, then drill and tap servo screws from the outside to hold the cage to the body. i will then be able to completely disassemble the body whenever i need.

i also want to be able to return it to "stock" form so i did not want to change things permanently. big issue has been front bumper, it rubs tires on extreme articulation and steering so it was gonna have to be cut down. then i thought, duh. just take it off! that will solve all my problems and allow my front tires to always be in contact before anything else. relocate the lights and this thing is gonna be able to crawl up a 90 degree wall.

sunday is gonna be fun!

me

 

[mrjdstewart]

 

[The Hangar]

What a disappointment - I thought you were going to actually be driving on the walls... Just kidding - that’s awesome! Did it start out as a deadbolt?

 

[Wildthing]

Well I finally decided to throw away all the scrap pieces of foam and clean off the top of the tool box. It didn't look like that much but to large garbage bags full .

 

[mrjdstewart]

here we go again. maiden tomorrow. cross fingers for me it goes better than last.

laters,

me

 

[The Hangar]

here we go again. maiden tomorrow. cross fingers for me it goes better than last.

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laters,

me

Good luck!! Let us know how it goes.

 

[Wildthing]

here we go again. maiden tomorrow. cross fingers for me it goes better than last.

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laters,

me

Good luck

 

[mdcerdan]

Batteries charging for tomorrow flight. Meanwhile playing with the 3d printed skid steer. I need to print one bigger to have room for the flysky receiver.

 

[Timmy]

Yay! Its the weekend! You know what that means? Build build, fly fly and then crash! yay!

 

[FoamyDM]

This is what I did today.

 

[Monte.C]

@Wildthing your snow racer looks awesome! That turned out really really well. I want to see you reduce rudder throw and open it up across those fields.

 

[Wildthing]

@Wildthing your snow racer looks awesome! That turned out really really well. I want to see you reduce rudder throw and open it up across those fields.

LOL, yes she does turn really easy. I think I was having more trouble towards the end because the plastic page protectors I used to protect the foam was getting shredded apart on the front pontoons and causing extra uneven drag.

 

[Wildthing]

@Wildthing your snow racer looks awesome! That turned out really really well. I want to see you reduce rudder throw and open it up across those fields.

Bottom end after that run, well the rear pink float that damage was from the frozen snow the first time out. The front you can see how even though it was soft and melting it just destroyed that plastic. I think I am going to just run a couple strips of duct tape and see how it holds out.