New guy here:)

[MachineCat]

When I was a kid I hoped to play RC planes but was never able to. Now starting to scratch build with my son

It is fun although our first FT flyer crashed miserably
Building second draft now.

 

[SP0NZ]

Welcome to the hobby and the FT family. I had several failures with the FT Flyer, Nutball and Delta. I was underpowered with a 2S setup. When I switched it up and tried the Bloody Wonder on 3S everything clicked. Been hooked ever since. Keep after it, it's more than worth it. I started out with my son too. He's now finishing up his commercial aviation degree at UND.

 

[Phin G]

Welcome to the forums and welcome to the family.
Phin

 

[Mr NCT]

When I was a kid I hoped to play RC planes but was never able to. Now starting to scratch build with my son

It is fun although our first FT flyer crashed miserably
Building second draft now.

Welcome! Everybody crashes at the start. I put a dent in my barn with my first plane.

 

[Ratcheeroo]

Build,fly.crash, repeat is the motto here LOL. Welcome to the forum!

 

[MachineCat]

Thanks for the welcoming.

Our second draft of FT Flyer was able to stay in the air for a while, but seems to be under powered as well.

I started the build because I had a 8520 brushed motor. So I scaled the FT flyer down to 16inch wing span. My original thoughts were that I may be able to keep the weight under 50gram but turns out the plan was too aggressive. Current build is about 73gram, too much for that small motor.

Now I plan to get another motor.

But as you guys said, my son and I had a lot of fun building and flying and crashing this thing.

 

[Matthewdupreez]

Welcome to the hobby and the FT family. I had several failures with the FT Flyer, Nutball and Delta. I was underpowered with a 2S setup. When I switched it up and tried the Bloody Wonder on 3S everything clicked. Been hooked ever since. Keep after it, it's more than worth it. I started out with my son too. He's now finishing up his commercial aviation degree at UND.

Is the bloody wonder a reasonable trainer? With ppf and a 3s

 

[Ketchup]

Is the bloody wonder a reasonable trainer? With ppf and a 3s

Definitely not on the F pack, if that's what ppf means. I think it can handle a B or C pack, but I like to fly mine with a C pack.

 

[Ketchup]

Also for the OP, welcome to the family!

 

[Matthewdupreez]

Definitely not on the F pack, if that's what ppf means. I think it can handle a B or C pack, but I like to fly mine with a C pack.

Yea OK thanks. Ppf is the new abbreviation... PP(a, f, c, b,)

 

[SP0NZ]

Is the bloody wonder a reasonable trainer? With ppf and a 3s

It was the plane that I really learned to fly on, but I would not recommend it as a trainer for most people getting into the hobby. There are better choices now like the Tiny Trainer, Explorer, or the Simple Scout.

 

[Matthewdupreez]

It was the plane that I really learned to fly on, but I would not recommend it as a trainer for most people getting into the hobby. There are better choices now like the Tiny Trainer, Explorer, or the Simple Scout.

ok, i was just hoping that it would work with a PPF and a 3s 1100mah. (& 9g servos) .. apparently the TT won't fly well with that setup... so i am making my own motor glider, with a 1.2 m wingspan for that setup.... i hope (when i finally get around to it)

 

[JasonK]

ok, i was just hoping that it would work with a PPF and a 3s 1100mah. (& 9g servos) .. apparently the TT won't fly well with that setup... so i am making my own motor glider, with a 1.2 m wingspan for that setup.... i hope (when i finally get around to it)

other then the 9 gram servo, I flew a TT with a PPF with a 1300mAh 3s battery just fine. the battery needs to be mounted much farther back and the wing load ends up higher. It flew fine.

 

[Matthewdupreez]

other then the 9 gram servo, I flew a TT with a PPF with a 1300mAh 3s battery just fine. the battery needs to be mounted much farther back and the wing load ends up higher. It flew fine.

cool thanks

 

[MachineCat]

Went out flying the FT Flyer again with my son. This time it flied a lot better. Mostly because my boy started to get better controlling it.
I would still say it is under powered though, very hard to pick up speed even with full throttle.

 

[kilroy07]

If you can, take a video of it and post a link here. We've all make enough mistakes to help you see where you might need some work. (under powered, wrong CG, over controlling, etc.) Sometimes it helps to have feed back and it helps if we can see what's going on.

And welcome to the forums!!

 

[MachineCat]

@kilroy07 , Thanks! As a matter of fact I did took some video, but I have not figured out how to post it in this forum yet.

 

[skymaster]

Uuummm your are playing with an rc plane dude so you are still a kid and that kid beside you helping you crash . that's your bestest buddy so enjoy and have fun and welcome to the forum.

 

[kilroy07]

@kilroy07 , Thanks! As a matter of fact I did took some video, but I have not figured out how to post it in this forum yet.

Not sure you can directly, I made a youtube account and just post a link here. But any sort of video hosting site should be good.

 

[MachineCat]

Alright, let me try this. It was full throttle the whole time during this video.