The Great 2020 Quarantine Build-Off?

Wildthing

Legendary member
Printed off a motor mount for the Simple Stick, sort of right but only half way depending how you place it. It has a 2 degree down and suppose to be 2 degree right, well duh, I can have 2 degree down with 2 degree left or 2 degree up and 2 degree right. :D Off to print another one :D

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Wildthing

Legendary member
To reinforce the sides where the skewers are (for the elastics) I cut some popsicle sticks long enough so they go right to the bottom and come out the other side (spot for a little extra hot glue) and glued them to the inside of the fuse . Saving some of those scrap little piece of cf strips came in handy, couple strips glued onto the wing to protect it from the elastics.

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Crawford Bros. Aeroplanes

Legendary member
Hopefully the Simple Stick will work out well for you then!
I certainly hope so, I built it as a 3ch so if it doesn't have enough rudder for me I've got bigger problems to worry about.
You'll love my Arwing design- it's technically bank and yank but the elevons have enough anhedral to give it converse yaw for days! It's very responsive in the air. Also, for planes that are normally bank and yank only, you can add a little thrust yaw, either diffy thrust or vectoring.
I also gave @FoamyDM's PRANDTL-D project a try. Using washout to create converse yaw. I have the airframe built and half painted but I've started on too many other projects to finish it anytime soon. My Arrowhead actually has a v-tail, I crashed it when I was trying to trim the elevator and didn't have enough hands to use the rudder.
 

perhapsleiana

Elite member
Flew the 300i today- Used most of a battery, but it took a good 6-7 minutes of flying to run it down that far. Stripped the thrust vectoring servo with a prop strike on the second landing though, any recommendations as to how to fix it better?
Also, here's a 54 dpi raster plans preview. If you want to view full resolution, it looks like you'll have to download it.
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Grifflyer

WWII fanatic
Flew the 300i today- Used most of a battery, but it took a good 6-7 minutes of flying to run it down that far. Stripped the thrust vectoring servo with a prop strike on the second landing though, any recommendations as to how to fix it better?
Also, here's a 54 dpi raster plans preview. If you want to view full resolution, it looks like you'll have to download it.
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Go metal gear servos.
 

perhapsleiana

Elite member
Go metal gear servos.
I was thinking the same thing- i looked for my two spare metal gear servos for about 15 minutes before remembering I lost them in a soybean field last fall. So I just used a better plastic gear servo, and put it in with screws so it's more easily replaceable. A temporary fix to get it back in the air. Also I bent the pushrods differently, hopefully I get more spring this time. It was a little tough flying at the park, wind was from the southwest to the northeast, so to do an upwind landing would mean going low over the road, which means I had to do more of a crosswind landing instead. not that this plane particularly cares, it's fast and the gear reminds me of characters from The Oatmeal with the comically wide stance.
 

Wildthing

Legendary member
Well I finally threw the SR71 onto the scale, not bad for such a big bird and three motors, scale in at 26.45 oz without the battery, with a 2200 3S battery 32.9 oz. Did a vertical thrust test on 3S and at 50 to 60% throttle she would lift so we have enough thrust on 3S to fly comfortably.