philgabanski
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It was the plane I learnt to fly with, an f-27b model complete with brushed motor. It could barley climb and had many many hard landings, and goal post encounters.
One day I blew up the battery so sought to upgrade. After some research bought brushless motor, 3s lipo, servos and esc and brought my battered F-27B close to 27C spec (I guess you could have called it a B+, kinda like the f-14B+) Did what the new one did but not quite the same.
Any how one day the motor mount came loose and the prop pretty much ate the entire left wing.
Not wanting to shell out for a new frame, I set about my second ever scratch build and used the right wing, sliced up the foam and traced formers, 2 months later I had a balsa clone of a styker. Weighed about 100 grams more but still flew just like a styker.
After about 6 years of service (and some abuse) my balsa stryker is not looking so good. One too many nose in landings. Took a beating for a balsa plane. Time to go again, and build a new one. I had tried to fill the void with the like of the HK skyfun but it just isn't the same.
Having some great success using XPS foam I decided to return to foam for my new plane. Traced out the dimensions on grid paper (old school I know), then over too the XPS foam to trace out, cut and sand.
Started by hot wiring the sheets to taper out to the wing tip, then traced out the plan onto the foam. Then grabed the sander and shaped b the wing sections. Looking pretty good so far!
One day I blew up the battery so sought to upgrade. After some research bought brushless motor, 3s lipo, servos and esc and brought my battered F-27B close to 27C spec (I guess you could have called it a B+, kinda like the f-14B+) Did what the new one did but not quite the same.
Any how one day the motor mount came loose and the prop pretty much ate the entire left wing.
Not wanting to shell out for a new frame, I set about my second ever scratch build and used the right wing, sliced up the foam and traced formers, 2 months later I had a balsa clone of a styker. Weighed about 100 grams more but still flew just like a styker.
After about 6 years of service (and some abuse) my balsa stryker is not looking so good. One too many nose in landings. Took a beating for a balsa plane. Time to go again, and build a new one. I had tried to fill the void with the like of the HK skyfun but it just isn't the same.
Having some great success using XPS foam I decided to return to foam for my new plane. Traced out the dimensions on grid paper (old school I know), then over too the XPS foam to trace out, cut and sand.
Started by hot wiring the sheets to taper out to the wing tip, then traced out the plan onto the foam. Then grabed the sander and shaped b the wing sections. Looking pretty good so far!
