Haven't been on the forum over the last 3 days, I came down with a throat infection, but here are a few updates.
On the 6th of the month I went to the field with a friend who recently bought a drone, and my kids. Our goal was to get some nice air to air footage of the KFM Wing which we sort of did, videos when I find time/energy to edit the videos. I also took the Simple Soarer with us to try get my son some more on the sticks. I took the Simple Soarer because my TT needs to be checked after me and
@Eddo radush broke the fuselage multiple times and folded the glider wings
. My son with my assistance flew the plane great, he listened and did what I instructed him to do. Pictures and more about that can be found here:
Teaching My Children To Fly - The Diary,
shortly. At some point I asked my friend if he wanted to try and handed him the Tx. He got into trouble and handed me back the Tx, a bit to close for me to save it from a crash, so now it too needs repairs. Some re-enforcement to the wing so that it won't fold and a re-enforcement to the electronics hatch.
For a while now I have been playing around with the Howard DGA-6 build that I am working on. I already have the wings figured out and I am very pleased with the end result. After clearing my work bench for now by finishing the building and maidening of the FT Spitfire (
https://forum.flitetest.com/index.php?threads/spit-roasted-fb.59444/page-24#post-496971), I had more time to work on my DGA-6. So I have been working on the fuselage trying different methods for it. and none worked to my liking. Getting sick didn't help but I do have some great progress with the plans that look good on paper and need to be tested in reality. More about the fuselages methods that I tried can be found here:
FTFC20 Howard DGA-6 (Racing) designed by Mayan, shortly.
Off to eat and then finish updating the other threads.