So I Finally have my 60" Boxler/SkyBox - trying to decide on the final name (aka the Axon from Ed at Experimental Airlines) - complete so I go out to do a glide test. Didn't realize it was as windy as it was so we go out to the side of the house to get out of the wind....You know where this is going....
So I do a few mellow and short tosses to my son just to see how it does. Seemed ok, at least not tail heavy. So I run with it and throw it up and catch it while running beneath it. Hard to see it that way so I decide to go for it....Get a good run going and really toss the thing in the air. Well it catches air and then gets beyond the house and catches a good stiff wind...the thing lifts up, glides and then wings over to the right - right into the middle of the road.
I am probably the first one on these boards that dinged up his plane to the point it needed repairs from a glide test...Oh well, got it patched up and waiting for the maiden flight some time tomorrow...
Videos to follow the maiden...wish me luck...I am hoping for longer than 20 seconds this time
RC Dad
So I do a few mellow and short tosses to my son just to see how it does. Seemed ok, at least not tail heavy. So I run with it and throw it up and catch it while running beneath it. Hard to see it that way so I decide to go for it....Get a good run going and really toss the thing in the air. Well it catches air and then gets beyond the house and catches a good stiff wind...the thing lifts up, glides and then wings over to the right - right into the middle of the road.
I am probably the first one on these boards that dinged up his plane to the point it needed repairs from a glide test...Oh well, got it patched up and waiting for the maiden flight some time tomorrow...
Videos to follow the maiden...wish me luck...I am hoping for longer than 20 seconds this time
RC Dad