Slalom
New member
Hi all,
I’ve been reading on the forms for a little bit now, but finally decided to join and get a little more involved. So I’m on the beginner end of the spectrum and looking to start building my first planes with foam board. Now I have owned and flown several three channel small foam planes such as the champ and the F949. I’ve also been flying drones for the past few years as well so I am comfortable with orientation and I use a pinch grip and I’m pretty comfortable with controls. So ultimately in the big picture I would consider myself a beginner but I have flown quite a few times so I’m not a first time beginner.
Now I’m looking to build some planes for the fun of it, and of course to be able to have multiple styles of flying and keep the price down as well. I’m less interested in fast or aerobatic flying but more along the lines of slower peaceful cub/STOL Flying and I’ll probably want to do a powered glider as well. Some of the planes I will probably be building are going to be a simple cub, possibly the Bushwacker and some smaller ones and maybe some sort of glider. I intend on building floats for the simple cub eventually and I definitely enjoy the look and flying of stol planes so I will either do the bushwhacker with oversized wheels or the simple cub with oversized wheels.
I’ve decided that the first plane would probably make sense to be the simple cub. While I Like the look of the bushwhacker, I don’t need a plane that’s as agile right now. So I will probably have my first one the simple cub with oversized bush wheels on it. Now I would like to make a plane that has STOL characteristics and can fly pretty slow. I’m assuming that weight and wing size will be the biggest factors and how slow a plane will fly. So my question is what could I expect or what downsides would I have to added a small amount of size to the wing on a plane such as the simple cub? I am thinking I could potentially add half an inch to an inch to the chord and another 2-3 inches on the wingspan and likely keep similar flight characteristics but have 10-20 less wing loading. Is this silly or is this quite common to change the wings like this? I could also be open to building the Bushwacker with slight changes to calm down it’s flying characteristics if it could be a better STOL flyer and fly well enough that way. Also any other recommendations for what modifications could help a plane be a good slow flyer would be appreciated as well. I would assume that having a higher angle of incidence could help to a point but I’m assuming there is a point of diminishing returns, so changing aspects to a plane that someone else designed could have negative effects.
So anyways, hello all! And I look forward to making my first powered foam board flyers soon!
I’ve been reading on the forms for a little bit now, but finally decided to join and get a little more involved. So I’m on the beginner end of the spectrum and looking to start building my first planes with foam board. Now I have owned and flown several three channel small foam planes such as the champ and the F949. I’ve also been flying drones for the past few years as well so I am comfortable with orientation and I use a pinch grip and I’m pretty comfortable with controls. So ultimately in the big picture I would consider myself a beginner but I have flown quite a few times so I’m not a first time beginner.
Now I’m looking to build some planes for the fun of it, and of course to be able to have multiple styles of flying and keep the price down as well. I’m less interested in fast or aerobatic flying but more along the lines of slower peaceful cub/STOL Flying and I’ll probably want to do a powered glider as well. Some of the planes I will probably be building are going to be a simple cub, possibly the Bushwacker and some smaller ones and maybe some sort of glider. I intend on building floats for the simple cub eventually and I definitely enjoy the look and flying of stol planes so I will either do the bushwhacker with oversized wheels or the simple cub with oversized wheels.
I’ve decided that the first plane would probably make sense to be the simple cub. While I Like the look of the bushwhacker, I don’t need a plane that’s as agile right now. So I will probably have my first one the simple cub with oversized bush wheels on it. Now I would like to make a plane that has STOL characteristics and can fly pretty slow. I’m assuming that weight and wing size will be the biggest factors and how slow a plane will fly. So my question is what could I expect or what downsides would I have to added a small amount of size to the wing on a plane such as the simple cub? I am thinking I could potentially add half an inch to an inch to the chord and another 2-3 inches on the wingspan and likely keep similar flight characteristics but have 10-20 less wing loading. Is this silly or is this quite common to change the wings like this? I could also be open to building the Bushwacker with slight changes to calm down it’s flying characteristics if it could be a better STOL flyer and fly well enough that way. Also any other recommendations for what modifications could help a plane be a good slow flyer would be appreciated as well. I would assume that having a higher angle of incidence could help to a point but I’m assuming there is a point of diminishing returns, so changing aspects to a plane that someone else designed could have negative effects.
So anyways, hello all! And I look forward to making my first powered foam board flyers soon!