quorneng
Master member
STOL Contest page is here...
http://forum.flitetest.com/showthread.php?4445-CONTEST!!!!-Build-a-STOL-Bush-Plane
Why S**L?
Because I don't to take-offs so its just S for short landing!
This is entirely experimental with a low chance of success.
4 motors, counter rotating props, massive double section flaps, drooping ailerons and all made of Depron.
The 30" wing under construction with 5 servos (2 aileron 3 flaps).
With the motors and ESCs in the wing there is a lot of wiring.
It is real spaghetti by the time it gets to the centre.
Front and rear views of the completed plane.
Big wing end plates fitted.
It weighs just under 16oz ready to go with 24oz thrust.
Its one and only flight with just a few degrees of flap set.
The wreckage!
Rebuilt with just two motors.
Painted yellow it did make several flights but still very poor control with full flap. The wreckage!
Motors and electronics salvaged, airframe scrapped!
2 of the motors used in a push/pull configuration on a new fuselage and using an existing 40" flapped wing made of Depron
And this actually works!
And you can't get a landing much shorter than that.
Without a take off it can't really be part of the STOL challenge.
http://forum.flitetest.com/showthread.php?4445-CONTEST!!!!-Build-a-STOL-Bush-Plane
Why S**L?
Because I don't to take-offs so its just S for short landing!
This is entirely experimental with a low chance of success.
4 motors, counter rotating props, massive double section flaps, drooping ailerons and all made of Depron.
The 30" wing under construction with 5 servos (2 aileron 3 flaps).
With the motors and ESCs in the wing there is a lot of wiring.
It is real spaghetti by the time it gets to the centre.
Front and rear views of the completed plane.
Big wing end plates fitted.
It weighs just under 16oz ready to go with 24oz thrust.
Its one and only flight with just a few degrees of flap set.
The wreckage!
Rebuilt with just two motors.
Painted yellow it did make several flights but still very poor control with full flap. The wreckage!
Motors and electronics salvaged, airframe scrapped!
2 of the motors used in a push/pull configuration on a new fuselage and using an existing 40" flapped wing made of Depron
And this actually works!
And you can't get a landing much shorter than that.
Without a take off it can't really be part of the STOL challenge.
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