Hi Everyone,
I'm fairly new to RC planes.
My first plane was a FT Explorer which I build from scratch. While I had quite a bit of fun trying to fly this and crashed it many times, I could never get it to fly very well.
Following this, I built the FT F22 from scratch using our local foam and powered it with the recommended size motor and prop. Unfortunately, I found that it simply didn't have enough thrust to keep it in the air.
Turns out, the foam board we get out here in New Zealand is significantly heaver than the FT foam board. I tried the F22 with a larger motor and move aggressive prop which defiantly made it more flyable, but it was still hard not to stall.
In one of the many crashes I managed to snap the whole nose off the front. I actually found that it flew better without it.
I used the basic FT F22 design and modified it to take 2 8 inch props, and removed the nose cone.
I also strengthened up the front so it will hopefully survive more crashes.
It's powered by 2 Turnigy D2826/10 1400KV motors, spinning 8x 4.5 props with 2 25Amp ESC's
Wing span is 720mm, total length is 770mm Total weight is 660grams, which probably sound heavy, but our foam board is about 2.5 the weight of the FT stuff.
I suspect my vertical stabilizers and flaps are probably unnecessarily big, but I'm not sure how to work out what size to make them?
I'm just waiting for the weather to fine up here (Middle of winter in NZ) so I can get it in the air
Anyway, thought someone might be interested in seeing my version of the FT F22
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts and comments.
Cheers,
N
I'm fairly new to RC planes.
My first plane was a FT Explorer which I build from scratch. While I had quite a bit of fun trying to fly this and crashed it many times, I could never get it to fly very well.
Following this, I built the FT F22 from scratch using our local foam and powered it with the recommended size motor and prop. Unfortunately, I found that it simply didn't have enough thrust to keep it in the air.
Turns out, the foam board we get out here in New Zealand is significantly heaver than the FT foam board. I tried the F22 with a larger motor and move aggressive prop which defiantly made it more flyable, but it was still hard not to stall.
In one of the many crashes I managed to snap the whole nose off the front. I actually found that it flew better without it.
I used the basic FT F22 design and modified it to take 2 8 inch props, and removed the nose cone.
I also strengthened up the front so it will hopefully survive more crashes.
It's powered by 2 Turnigy D2826/10 1400KV motors, spinning 8x 4.5 props with 2 25Amp ESC's
Wing span is 720mm, total length is 770mm Total weight is 660grams, which probably sound heavy, but our foam board is about 2.5 the weight of the FT stuff.
I suspect my vertical stabilizers and flaps are probably unnecessarily big, but I'm not sure how to work out what size to make them?
I'm just waiting for the weather to fine up here (Middle of winter in NZ) so I can get it in the air
Anyway, thought someone might be interested in seeing my version of the FT F22
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts and comments.
Cheers,
N
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