It's "stock up for combat" season here in NE Ohio, so I have pile of foam and electronics waiting to be cobbled into aircraft of short life expectancy. I've been working with a self-imposed 2-Sheet constraint, the first attempt, "Lil- Whiz" was a resounding success. I "designed", built and flew it all before 11 am at FF last year, and it has performed just as I wanted it to. So now, I'm using the same wing in a swept configuration to build a model that looks like something I drew when I was 4 based on a picture of a jet plane printed on my underpants. It's coming along nicely, I think. I may do something different with the wing mounting if I build another, possibly detached ailerons so it can be fused then slid through. For now, I built a "cradle" of plywood and plan to sandwich plywood similarly on top with glue and dowels/screws. The span is minimal, but wing load will be heavy. I've been using the doubling-up technique for the stabs, and I think the results are fantastic, albeit not without consequence of mass. I used to count grams in my balsa/NiCAd/400 speed days, but with the hardware we have now, one could nearly compel a cinderblock to aerobatic flight. I had to split the elevator as the halves do not share a hinge vector, so some fiberglass rod, glue and shrink tube did the trick. Opted for a 9-gram here for the extra load created by the flexing rods, they splay outward with up elevator and vice-versa for down. I have neither built nor flown a constant-chord swept wing craft, so this will either be awesome or hilarious in action. And yes, the control horns are a cut-up gift card.
kinda low budget here.
