Summary & Review
Firstly I would like to thank Ultramicrobe for doing the plans. It's a nice plane. I will build another.
Summary: This was my first experimental/beta build and only my second scratch build. First bomber, first multi-engine, and the biggest power plane I had ever built or flown. I thought it flew very well and looked majestic in the air. The beefed up wing was strong and handled the stress of aerobatics well. Some complained of tail heaviness. Mine was actually flown a little too nose heavy.
Build: just a couple of minor issues with the plans that were easily dealt with as earlier descibed. With the benefit of hindsight, the asymmetric elevator should have been handled differently. I should have copied the big half. That would have looked better as well as given more elevator area.
The tail is a little flimsy and I'll do something about that next time. Upon unpacking for final assembly, I noted that one side of the horizontal stab was a little droopy. I glued a medium sized craft stick to the top to splint it, and that remedy brought it back square.
For the wing, I cut down a heavy duty 5 gal. paint stirrer to match the foam spar and glued it the leading edge side of the foam spar. A regular sized paint stirrer with the handle part cut off was also glued to the spar. This was for landing gear as well as for additional strength and support. The wingtips were each reinforced with BBQ skewers at the leading edge score cut.
When it came time to join the wings, I pumped in a lot of hot glue and split another craft stick to use as a joiner at the spar. I then closed up the center section of the wing using several small pieces of fitted foam. I guestimated 50% dihedral. Tape as usual.
I eliminated the rudder and I moved the elevator servo forward. This helped with managing the CG as many had complained of tail heaviness.
It was supposed to have differential thrust but I couldn't get it configured so I grabbed a Y-harness in order to fly it.
It flew well. Loops, rolls and Cuban Eights looked pretty good. I did a sloppy 4 point roll that added negative g with no problem.
(2) 2200 3s's provided plenty of juice and ballast. My motors provided about 15% more power than a C pack.
We took no video
I hope some shows up.