Show us your maidens!

[bicyclemonkey]

Nice, is that your Ecom 195? They've got some nice models. I've been wanting the SE5a but they're backordered.

 

[Fishbonez]

My Phoenix 2000

 

[wingspan100]

Yes, The Cessna 195 is turning out to be a really good airplane.

 

[SteveOBHave]

Missed this thread - thought I better chuck this in here

Info and a camera mounted flight here: http://forum.flitetest.com/showthread.php?2071-2nd-Scratchbuild-First-Success-1740mm-Flying-Wing

 

[oagh]

I have a 1st flight vid, Its a Katana ES , its a 3-d plane. It was done useing a gopro in hand, so its just ok .
But here is my 1st flight , the landing is fast

my expo is sett too 125 % for 3-d

 

[Night Crawler]

1st post, 1st flight

Hey all. Just thought, for my first post, I would add my first flight of my first flying wing.
I built this myself from scratch and I am really impressed with how well it flies. Its a bit twitchy, but I think I just need to dial in some expo.
This is probably going to be the first of many builds and definitly the first of many flights.
I have had this up in the air 3 times now and I still havn't had chance to do a proper landing yet.
First flight (this one) I was trying to pull out of a loop and just didn't have enough elevator authority.
Second flight, I found its speed limit. The wing was fluttering really bad. I thought it was gonna rip itself to bits. So I brought it down as gently as i could.
Third flight. My countdown timer ran out, so I was trying to bring it round for a perfect landing and I got it stuck at the top of the only tree in the freaking field! I have not climbed a tree since I was a kid, but its just like riding a bike
I am still quite new to RC flying, so I'm still learning.
So, here is my new toy

And here is the video of its maiden flight.

Enjoy
Oh, please excuse by filthy mouth. I havn't managed to figure out how to insert a beep noise using this new video editing tool.

 

[colorex]

First flight with it? :O You're a friggin natural!

I like the scenery where you fly. I went up in the mountains once, and I got the chance to do that - fly all around me, not just in front of me.

Great flying!

 

[Night Crawler]

Thanks I wouldnt say I'm a natural though. I used to fly real planes in the air cadets when I was younger, so I have the basic flying skills from there.
Its not too bad there. Its literally 3 minutes walk from my house. Only problem is, its always quite breezy because its pretty much the highest point round here. Thats why you see the 2 tv transmission towers as I'm flying round.
Being able to fly around me makes it a bit easier because I can just keep flying in a big circle
We dont have mountains anywhere near here. In the UK, we just have big hills. But there are some nice areas where I would love to fly FPV.

 

[bmsweb]

Nice Maiden Night Crawler!!

This is my maiden of my Mini Skywalker FPV. Nothing too exciting but have a look at 57sec mark where I am still trimming it out!

 

[Carbon]

Maiden of the brushless Super Cub. I went great, right up until I got interference from the cell tower near by and did a 200 ft nose dive into the ground...

 

[bmsweb]

Man shame about your supercub! Not sure what sort of great you're using but it could also be due to a faulty receiver. I've had one of those.

 

[Carbon]

well, here is the thing; I used it with no problems in my funbat build, and then when I turned the SC to brushless I used it. The reason I had an excuse to go brushless was because I had crashed it in almost the same spot with the standard Cub receiver. That's why I think it must be the tower.

 

[bmsweb]

That sounds like it. I know the club I used to fly at many years ago, on landing approach in this one direction there would always be a glitch and I used to hate having to punch through that spot.

I've still got a turnigy receiver that had a dryish solder join of the antenna. I've never got around to fixing it but I was luck not to lose my model because of it. Well for what its worth it looked good . . before the crash

 

[Carbon]

thanks :/ I bought a new body today(there goes my allowance for the month) and I'll have 'er up and running by saturday. I'll keep you guys posted.
I think my new plane is going to be something small that doesn't crash hard like a little EDF mig-15 or something

 

[colorex]

well, here is the thing; I used it with no problems in my funbat build, and then when I turned the SC to brushless I used it. The reason I had an excuse to go brushless was because I had crashed it in almost the same spot with the standard Cub receiver. That's why I think it must be the tower.

I've been thinking a lot about those cell towers, as I don't wan't to lose my plane in the ocean!

I know I'm safe on 72MHz - but what I do not know is - are they the same frequencies on cell towers in the USA as there are in other places?

I know for sure I can't use 900MHz FPV because local cell towers run around 900Mhz. So does that mean I'm safe with 2.4GHz? How can I test it?

 

[oagh]

wow , thats sad ! Poor thing ......Good vid :applause:

 

[Carbon]

I'm just sad I didn't get the crash!

 

[Revj Vegas]

It wasn't a completely successful maiden, but its just foam. It can be modified, rebuilt & repaired

 

[bmsweb]

It wasn't a completely successful maiden, but its just foam. It can be modified, rebuilt & repaired

Looks like a Nice build and it looked like it flew really once additional weight was added and trimmed. Shame about the accident but it didn't look too bad

 

[Fishbonez]

This got ugly...Maiden of my Phase 3 ef16

This is not for the faint at heart. Viewer discretion is advised :black_eyed:

I always say it will fly or go home in a box