Made from the depron under pizzas from the supermarket and a broken toy quad.
Seems to have enough power to maintain height, will have to wait for calm weather or the club indoor event in December to find out if it's at all steerable!!!
Still, it was a fun hour of building
Cool! Did the toy quad have a flight controller? Wondering if you have some advice to give to @Clement on his B-52 build where he is also using two motors from a quad to power his plane.
Cool! Did the toy quad have a flight controller? Wondering if you have some advice to give to @Clement on his B-52 build where he is also using two motors from a quad to power his plane.
Well this Saturday its 5 deg C (41F in old fashioned money) and 40 kph winds (25mph in imperial) and lashing down in rain - so that's out!!!
Bugger!!!!
Very neat little build! Does it glide OK? It looks like it might be very sensitive to CG placement, but the motors should be in the right spot to give you decent altitude and yaw control
Now I want to find some little styrofoam plates too...
Very neat little build! Does it glide OK? It looks like it might be very sensitive to CG placement, but the motors should be in the right spot to give you decent altitude and yaw control
Now I want to find some little styrofoam plates too...
It glides okay, I taped the various bits back and forward whilst doing test glides until it was looking ok. Only then did I stick the bits down. Tried turning the plane last night and its going to have to be quick nudges left or right or the plane rolls over and dives! Challenging to fly
You could try putting more dihedral into the wing whilst weather is horrible, that might help the stability. Extending the tail plane up and over the wing might help too.
It looks like a paper aeroplane!
You could try putting more dihedral into the wing whilst weather is horrible, that might help the stability. Extending the tail plane up and over the wing might help too.
It looks like a paper aeroplane!