So I have come down with a hard case of Pneumonia, making it super hard for me to breath. Been hitting on the antibiotics for a few days now and things seemed to be getting better until this morning when I woke up with pain that was more than I could withstand a sharp stabbing feeling in the left side of my chest. I rushed out to the doctor who thought I might have punctured my lung from my coughing and sent my to do an X-ray to make sure. Not being able to withstand the pain I popped some pain killers up to a point where I felt no more pain until now that they are wearing off. From here to there the x-ray came out clean so I have not punctured my lung but the x-ray clearly confirmed the Pneumonia I have. Back to pain killers and back to resting
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I haven't been out to the field lately even though the weather was great, sunny, warm and no wind; this all really bummed me out because I have two Mini Edges to first time maiden. One is using a C pack motor with a 40A ESC and is built with no paper removal. The second is using a B pack motor and a 30A ESC and it's paper has been removed from some parts of the build to save on its weight. One way or the other more about weight vs flight experience once I maiden them. I will then post all about it both on this thread and the build thread that I have for this project here:
https://forum.flitetest.com/index.php?threads/the-mini-ft-edge-540-build-journey.57470/
I have also been working on two other projects for
@buzzbomb's
Getting Stupid with the Tiny Trainer - The Challenge.
One was inspired by
@BorisTheSpider, who put a small snowball at the top of the hill and let it roll down. He started something that I am not sure he knew he started but he did. So with inspiration from BorisTheSpider and my love two both Josh Bixler and Andres Lu and the models they designed the Tiny Trainer and Edge 540 I started a TT/Edge crossover project. I started it and trashed it because I felt that I was losing track of the simpleness which I wanted the build to keep, it was then that it hit me flip your rudder and elevator around and you have yourself a rudder and elevator that look a lot like those the FT Edge 540, so I might not have lost track after all, and the project continues
. This is what I have so far.
The second project for buzzbomb's challenge is a mini version of the TT. It's not the first time I have gone at this project and called it a quit, last time for 2 reasons; I ran out of 3.7g servos and I thought it failed to fly well because of the way it flew with its nose up high. It was only a while ago that it hit me that the plane flying with its nose up was not a problem but rather weight vs power system setup that made it fly the way it did. According to my calculations this new build which is 75% scale as opposed to 60% which was my last attempt should still over perform with an MT1806 2300kv motor and a 6x4 prop and maybe even allow vertical climb at 100% throttle.
This build (75% scale of the TT) is actually complete and has all the electronics hooked up, missing only a receiver and 12A ESC which have both been ordered, so waiting for them to arrive. Bellow are a few details regarding the build.
Motor: MT1806 2300kv
Servos: 4 x Emax ES9251 II 2.5g
Wingspan: 72cm / 28.3in
Estimated weight with missing ESC and Receiver excluding battery: 170g / 6oz
Props that I will be testing: 6x3 / 6x4
I am tempted to take out my 20A ESC out of my TT which currently flyable and is setup with an F pack motor (never flew with that motor yet) just to test this out but will wait for the the 12A ESC to come in, makes more sense for the build. I currently have a few electronics that I find myself passing around to test things and that annoys me out, so trying to avoid doing that. Was kinda bummed when I decided stripped my Simple Scout of it's 5g servos to put them in the Mini Edge project, because that plane was ready to fly by simply putting in a receiver and battery. Now it needs new servos, and I don't have any 9g servos laying around like I thought I did, that is unless I take them out of my SpiTTT. And that's how it all starts...
To finalize my long come back to life post I have a question for you all.
When do you move electronics from airframe to airframe? When do you say ok well I am leaving this airframe without electronics for now? And when do you pay back the airframe donor?