JasonK
Participation Award Recipient
I just found out about FliteTest a few days ago. Seems that radio equipment (at least the lower cost items) seems hard to get a hold of at the moment and with the 'stay at home' rules, I can't go out and get foam. So I started off with improvising with what I had in my house (some materials I was using to make miniature terrain - pink foam insulation, and some hard board stuff).
Watching some of the intro videos/etc got me enough pickup to get a hand thrown glider up and flying ok:
I used the wing and stabilizer designs from the FT Mini Mustang to outline my wing/stabilizers, but moved the wing above the CG. To get an airfoil shape I just carved angled cuts into my foam. With ~ 100grams of weight (trying to simulate an approximation weight of electronics) and some messing around with my CG and some slight bending on the tail controls to trim it, I got it flying on tosses fairly well. My current total mass is about ~155g.
I am curious, is there any easy way that I can figure out what the stall speed is on my frame from the air tosses. Trying to figure out how big on an area would be needed to fly once I can get a radio and electronics. (also will need rebuild/redesign it some, the fuselage is on the fragile side given that it is just foam).
Watching some of the intro videos/etc got me enough pickup to get a hand thrown glider up and flying ok:
I used the wing and stabilizer designs from the FT Mini Mustang to outline my wing/stabilizers, but moved the wing above the CG. To get an airfoil shape I just carved angled cuts into my foam. With ~ 100grams of weight (trying to simulate an approximation weight of electronics) and some messing around with my CG and some slight bending on the tail controls to trim it, I got it flying on tosses fairly well. My current total mass is about ~155g.
I am curious, is there any easy way that I can figure out what the stall speed is on my frame from the air tosses. Trying to figure out how big on an area would be needed to fly once I can get a radio and electronics. (also will need rebuild/redesign it some, the fuselage is on the fragile side given that it is just foam).