Mighty Mini Sea Otter

[Paracodespoder]

Well, it’s ready to fly, all electronics installed. Made a major oopsey though, went to screw in the motor, wouldn’t spin freely. Unscrewed it, removed the bell, found a tiny piece of clipped piano wire in there, removed it put the motor back together. Started screwing it back in and felt a grating noise , I forgot the spacer between the motor and the firewall, accidentally broke a couple wire inside the motor. Good news is it still works, bad news, stutters a little on start up though. It’s dark now but gonna go for short hops as a maiden with a headlamp.

 

[Paracodespoder]

Needs a different thrust angle.and a rebuild. Had to hold full back on the elevator to get it to lift off. Other than that it should work.

 

[Grifflyer]

Any updates?

 

[Paracodespoder]

Nope , scrapped the project for the electronics, might revisit it in the future, sorry.

 

[Grifflyer]

No problem.

 

[Paracodespoder]

You could pick up where I left off though , just be sure to keep the thrust angle (I didn’t and it wouldn’t fly.).

 

[mrjdstewart]

You could pick up where I left off though , just be sure to keep the thrust angle (I didn’t and it wouldn’t fly.).

please elaborate? i want to do a roughly 60% scale Sea Otter. if i may ask, what was your AUW?

thanks,

me

 

[Paracodespoder]

please elaborate? i want to do a roughly 60% scale Sea Otter. if i may ask, what was your AUW?

thanks,

me

Sorry, I have no recollection of the auw, all I know is I didn’t keep the thrust angle and it nosed down and to the side. This was also the project that I used too long of a screw and messed up my redbottom 2205, I have multiples now but it was an issue for a while there. Post your results because I wanna see this done properly, and I think you’re the one to do it.