Awesome Jason!! :applause:
I got a chance to put mine up in the air again this afternoon. Launch is like a smooth dream - just floats away across the field, nice and stable! I ran into some gusty conditions and it jumped around in the sky a little bit - side effect of being a lightweight foamy. She never did go really fast for me on my motor/prop setup, but oh my goodness she will turn a straight loop in something like 15 feet! Just an incredibly tight loop with the canard surfaces moving opposite the elevator flaps!
It was slow and soft on the rolls however, and Jason I do confirm your decision to go with a larger sized aileron/elevon. The size I started with does just fine for pitch authority with the canard surface helping out, but when it comes to rolling it just needs more control surface area.
I did run into a problem though with turning into a tailwind that was a lot stronger than I thought it was. And unfortunately when you turn into a strong tail wind, the effective airspeed drops - a lot - and all the lift goes away. And if you do this when you are only one mistake high, then you end up with a nose looking like this...
When it lost lift, I pretty much lost all control authority too, and she took a fairly shallow dive considering - maybe 30 degrees down bubble or so - but the landing was on hard dirt, and the battery which was mounted right behind the fuselage junction rammed forward into the smaller nose area and helped smash it all up real good. :black_eyed:
No other damage though, so I might just build a new nose on this one real quick so I can keep testing it while I finish up the decals for the pretty one.
