Some great stories going on here, happy to read through after a week or so of not being on the forum. A tiny storm hit the area and was doubled shifted at work.
@buzzbomb I feel that you took all the comments that people here gave you and put them to practice. Good job amigo keep it up. And please do post a video of control surfaces with transmitter so you’ll get comments before hand. Reversed controls do stink, experience talking.
Let me tell you a quick story in regards to the plane flying, just emphasis that it real doesn't matter how it looks. Some of you might know that for the last two weeks or so I am trying to build a 50% scale of anyone of the FT models that will be able to fly in real space areas. Built the MM Sportster, Speedster and the TT. All seem to have failed to fly mostly crashing with the motor directly into the concrete. Any how in one of my attempts I ripped the anethna of my receiver. I soldered it back together and decided believe in my work. The next day was nice outside so decided to go to out to the big field in which I fly taking my red TT with me with the MT1806 2280kv motor. The first and last time I flew it was in an underpowered situation with a MT1806 1430kv motor. I connected everything, checked control surfaces and was air born in no time. The plane gained altitude as expected started flying further away from me and then some thing unexpected happened the plane wasn't responding anymore. At this point I was left there looking at the plane fall out of the sky like a bird that was just shot down. I could have expected it? Surely, but the egear to go fly was way too strong to think it through. The crashed hurt the wing pretty badly, the rest of the plane was fine probably because the wing took the full load of the hit. Taped it at the field and gave it another try, trying to keep the plane closer by, so that the connection between the receiver and transmitter won't happen again. But guess what? Same exact thing happened again. This time I decided to use my head and stop trying to break the plane just because I want to fly. Got home ripped of the tape, added hot glue into the crack on the wing, and taped it back up.
The next day it was still nice outside so decided to give it another shot, I took a my DX4e transmitter and receiver along side the damaged receiver which I have soldered again for the RadioLink T8FB transmitter and went to the field. At the field I did a distance check to see if the receiver that I fixed was doing better, simply because I like the RadioLink Transmitter more. Distance check failed so changed the setup to use the DX4e receiver and transmitter, and did another distance check that was much better. Control Surface checks were fine, and I was air born. Flying back and forth having a blast. Of course I crashed a few times with no real damage and was air born again a no time. To sum up if you do the right checks you will fly and if you don't because something is damaged or not working properly, don't give up go home fix it and try again.
Got a tip for you when using the sports wing. I had a problem with rubber bands falling into the aileron tabs, putting a lot of pressure on the them (not good). So I hooked the back end of the wing with a U shaped 1.5mm steel piece instead of the BBQ stick.
Any how good luck with flying it, waiting for a video
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P.S.
Your motivation was what inspired me to start the 50% scale challenge I set on two weeks ago, you can read about it
here.
Happy Flying.