RC Microlight/Ultralight trike scratchbuild

[Arunabha42]

Hi all! My father and I've always loved microlights. He's a doctor but this is his hobby. We've been flying rc for around seven years now. Before that he used to fly control line and freeflight. This microlight's nothing very fancy, three channel control. It'snot exactly a true microlight. We tried making one with a weight shift mechanism but it didn't quite work out too well. So he came up with this design. I'll post pics later.

 

[earthsciteach]

Very cool! Is the kite wing scratch built or did you adapt a kite to it?

 

[quorneng]

Yes very nice and slow, but I would like to have seen the landing - you can tell a lot from the landing!

 

[Deanoseadog]

Hehe. Sweet! Looks like a school bus hang gliding. Would love to see you get a weight shift mechanism working.

 

[Arunabha42]

The wing's also scratchbuilt. Aluminium tubes and some kind of nylon sheet, as we don't get ripstop here. Dad's made another wing, this one's folding, and made of carbon fiber. It flies a fair bit better.
As for the landing, it approaches really nice, but at this field, the ground is way too bumpy, the small wheels cant cope, and it almost always tips over

Haha! Now that you say it, it does look like a school bus XD