Monte.C
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(Forgive me in advance for being long-winded here.)
I was on a building spree a little while back, but I'm dealing with too many unknowns at the same time. In a hobby where it seems bigger is better and faster is better, various circumstances make small gentle planes very attractive to me. I built these three nifty planes, quite small and VERY light, figuring the powered-glider-type plane would be the first to fly. It seems like it should be the easiest.
Too many unknowns. Mainly it's two things: these tricky undercambered wings I'm building (that better work the way I hope) and the ultra-light weight for the amount of wing surface. The glider weighs in at 105g to around 115g or so depending on the battery I put in there. If they're just too light to fly in anything but dead air, well I don't like that at all. I mean, then I should build with regular 5mm foamboard, and maybe add some ballast too? That sounds awful.
But there's a reason why we have an endless sea of tiny little scale-ish planes coming from China: Flight controllers. And it seems for my recent ridiculously light planes, if a gyro stabilizer doesn't help them fly right, nothing will. I tried flying the powered glider and destroyed the nose. (It'll be an easy fix.) And I can see in the air it wants to fly. Before I try to destroy one of these others I needed to take a step back and think. I decided to build a quick & dirty test bed to figure this out.
The design is inspired by the Sig Ninja. It'll be a twin, two 1106/4500s, and that's probably much more than I need, so I think it'll be running on only a 2-cell but it could run 3S if I want. I need to set up the flight stabilizer, haven't done that yet, shouldn't be hard at all. There's loads of info on how to do that on Youtube.
As always, my build progress is slow. Maybe I can fly this in around two weeks or so. Or be ready to fly and waiting for a weekend morning with little to no air.
I was on a building spree a little while back, but I'm dealing with too many unknowns at the same time. In a hobby where it seems bigger is better and faster is better, various circumstances make small gentle planes very attractive to me. I built these three nifty planes, quite small and VERY light, figuring the powered-glider-type plane would be the first to fly. It seems like it should be the easiest.
Too many unknowns. Mainly it's two things: these tricky undercambered wings I'm building (that better work the way I hope) and the ultra-light weight for the amount of wing surface. The glider weighs in at 105g to around 115g or so depending on the battery I put in there. If they're just too light to fly in anything but dead air, well I don't like that at all. I mean, then I should build with regular 5mm foamboard, and maybe add some ballast too? That sounds awful.
But there's a reason why we have an endless sea of tiny little scale-ish planes coming from China: Flight controllers. And it seems for my recent ridiculously light planes, if a gyro stabilizer doesn't help them fly right, nothing will. I tried flying the powered glider and destroyed the nose. (It'll be an easy fix.) And I can see in the air it wants to fly. Before I try to destroy one of these others I needed to take a step back and think. I decided to build a quick & dirty test bed to figure this out.
The design is inspired by the Sig Ninja. It'll be a twin, two 1106/4500s, and that's probably much more than I need, so I think it'll be running on only a 2-cell but it could run 3S if I want. I need to set up the flight stabilizer, haven't done that yet, shouldn't be hard at all. There's loads of info on how to do that on Youtube.
As always, my build progress is slow. Maybe I can fly this in around two weeks or so. Or be ready to fly and waiting for a weekend morning with little to no air.
tricks there might be. 
