So as you all might know I have built a total of 3 of
@Headbang 's A/F Easy Edge and love this plane. My first two didn't survive long and broke after their first maiden but the 3rd one will see his third maiden tomorrow. Thus I will use this post to sum up my experience with this model. First I would like to stress that this plane as easy as it is to build is not a joke! It's not a beginner plane and any beginner trying to fly this might very quickly get discouraged to continue with the hobby. With that being said if you have flown a plane or two and know the basic handling, rolls, loops, levelled flight and have the ability to save a plane from various scenarios but want to up your game into 3D flying this is a plane for you to start practicing with; build it, fly it, crash it, repair it, re-build it have fun I am!
I am still new to 3D flying an attempting to learn means I crash and break stuff, and thus try to re-enforce things to break less things and have to repair less things. Let me tell you a bit about my take for strengthening the plane up, based on my experience. I'll start off by saying that all planes have used the same setup 20A ESC and 5g servos, and all three have flown with both the A and F pack motors using a 6x4 prop.
The first plane I built had no re-enforcements to anything and was glued completely with brown gorilla glue, that made everything very stiff and didn't allow any flexibility thus caused things to break instead of bend. The second one was built using Super77 and had the fuselage re-enforced with a BBQ skewer going front to back above and bellow of the wing. This didn't work to well because the glue didn't cure fast enough and the BBQ skewers made a huge cap between the fuselage halves, giving it more thickness. In theory this is where I should have used brown gorilla glue because the foaming up of the glue would have filled in the gaps created and would have made for a super strong fuselage, because the BBQ skewers made it hard for the fuselage to actually break. The third one I built had no re-enforcements to the fuselage like a CF rod or BBQ skewer because I forgot to add it and when I realised it, it was already to late to add it
. It was glued with Super77 which allows flexibility avoiding a break but rather a bend. Because I forgot to re-enforce the fuselage the way I wanted I wrapped it with vinyl which made it bend instead of break and the vinyl actually holds the FB together even if a break does take place
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If I would have to recommend how to re-enforce the fuselage I would say use Super77 with a CF rod front to back above and bellow the wing. Another something I want to recommend is not to use Super77 on the wing because it will not hold well. Use either hot glue or brown gorilla glue and let it dry good. Another thing I want to mention is that I managed to balance the plane with 800mah/1000mah 3S batteries just a matter of moving the battery a bit back towards the wing center.
Any how here is a video of the first maiden flight of the A/F Easy Edge by
@Headbang, enjoy.