myxiplx
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Hey everybody
My little girl has a kite project at school, so we figured why not try to build a foamboard RC kite. Now I know what I want to achieve, but I've never tried to scratch build anything before, so I'm hoping I can bounce some ideas off folks here.
What we're aiming for is loosely:
I'm loosely basing the design on a previous flying kite idea, and a twin motor nutball project I've seen:
I've a very rough initial sketch below, but questions I have are:
My little girl has a kite project at school, so we figured why not try to build a foamboard RC kite. Now I know what I want to achieve, but I've never tried to scratch build anything before, so I'm hoping I can bounce some ideas off folks here.
What we're aiming for is loosely:
- Gotta be able to prop hang / fly at a high alpha
- Needs to knife edge well
- Needs a ton of rudder authority to spin in the air like a kite
- Must have enough power to drag a good length tail around
- Shouldn't catch the tail during spins
I'm loosely basing the design on a previous flying kite idea, and a twin motor nutball project I've seen:
I've a very rough initial sketch below, but questions I have are:
- Should I design a dihederal angle into this?
- Am I going to have enough aileron authority with these two tabs at the rear very close to the centre line?
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