My Flitetest scratch built planes

[BATTLEAXE]

Got a couple more to add to the list. My most recent:
A-22

This is just after paint. I have since crashed and replaced the nose from the donor jet called the Alpha. So it's not as pretty anymore but still very functional. Some video of the maiden

This has yet to be maidened, just finished it today, waiting on weather to calm down

Paint job should be easy to see for orientation purposes

On the bottom of the wing I added flaps. Seen this work really well for slope soaring flying wings, gonna try it here. It's set up on a 3 pos. switch so I can do a half and full flap throw. It might make things interesting or could go as exactly as planned. Soon to find out. If this flaps thing works there may be the addition of tricycle style landing gear with a steerable nose wheel hooked up to rudder control on the Tx.... maybe. Hey I might even fit it up for the floats

 

[The Hangar]

On the bottom of the wing I added flaps. Seen this work really well for slope soaring flying wings, gonna try it here. It's set up on a 3 pos. switch so I can do a half and full flap throw. It might make things interesting or could go as exactly as planned. Soon to find out. If this flaps thing works there may be the addition of tricycle style landing gear with a steerable nose wheel hooked up to rudder control on the Tx.... maybe. Hey I might even fit it up for the floats

Here you go again, taking things to a whole new level! I love it - keep it up man! Eager to see the maiden!

 

[buzzbomb]

Got a couple more to add to the list. My most recent:
A-22
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This is just after paint. I have since crashed and replaced the nose from the donor jet called the Alpha. So it's not as pretty anymore but still very functional. Some video of the maiden

This has yet to be maidened, just finished it today, waiting on weather to calm down
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Paint job should be easy to see for orientation purposes
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On the bottom of the wing I added flaps. Seen this work really well for slope soaring flying wings, gonna try it here. It's set up on a 3 pos. switch so I can do a half and full flap throw. It might make things interesting or could go as exactly as planned. Soon to find out. If this flaps thing works there may be the addition of tricycle style landing gear with a steerable nose wheel hooked up to rudder control on the Tx.... maybe. Hey I might even fit it up for the floats

Nice maiden @BATTLEAXE! She rolls really good and I saw another humpty-bump there towards the end. Those become second nature pretty quickly, don't they? Nice landing, as well. Any closer and someone would have had to duck!

 

[Dbogan]

Gun cabinet, hats, and an airplane... looks like my workshop! Lol

Judging by the hats you must be southern... Georgia maybe? I'd say Tennessee but the rest of the background throws me...

Awesome building, its addictive for sure!

South Carolina

 

[FoamyDM]

Inman SC is Deep in the forested Smokeys. Nice. I'm out of Fayetteville NC myself.

this doesn't count the planes in the shop, in plans mounted on DTFB sheets, or one over the piano, or in my Bathroom awaiting a float/buoyancy test...
If I admit to there being a problem... then I feel I should rid myself of some.

 

[buzzbomb]

Inman SC is Deep in the forested Smokeys. Nice. I'm out of Fayetteville NC myself.
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this doesn't count the planes in the shop, in plans mounted on DTFB sheets, or one over the piano, or in my Bathroom awaiting a float/buoyancy test...
If I admit to there being a problem... then I feel I should rid myself of some.

Nah. Your problem is that you don't crash enough. I could visit and help you weed out that collection pretty quickly! My awesome flying skills tend to keep me down to three or four flyable planes at a time.

 

[FoamyDM]

Nah. Your problem is that you don't crash enough. I could visit and help you weed out that collection pretty quickly! My awesome flying skills tend to keep me down to three or four flyable planes at a time.

That's just it. I have about 3-5 flyable models the rest are semi-fails, that I don't have time for more testing. Designs that are VERY close, or they are half build/ ready to build... etc.
or things I REALLY want to build.

 

[buzzbomb]

That's just it. I have about 3-5 flyable models the rest are semi-fails, that I don't have time for more testing. Designs that are VERY close, or they are half build/ ready to build... etc.
or things I REALLY want to build.

So many planes. So little time.

 

[BATTLEAXE]

Nah. Your problem is that you don't crash enough. I could visit and help you weed out that collection pretty quickly! My awesome flying skills tend to keep me down to three or four flyable planes at a time.

I am on the same train as you, @FoamyDM I will come over and fly the hell out of some of the ones you think are a fail just to see what they have left in them. Make some room for the ones you want to build.

 

[Dbogan]

Inman SC is Deep in the forested Smokeys. Nice. I'm out of Fayetteville NC myself.
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this doesn't count the planes in the shop, in plans mounted on DTFB sheets, or one over the piano, or in my Bathroom awaiting a float/buoyancy test...
If I admit to there being a problem... then I feel I should rid myself of some.

Looks like you have plane fever, I also have it.

 

[FoamyDM]

*Pringles Jingle Music* I've got the fever for the Flavor of an Airplane *Pringles Jingle Music*