SSgt Duramax
Junior Member
Hi everyone. I have been out of the game awhile. I left off with a mini arrow and it flew great! So, humbling myself getting back into the game, and since my daughter is now 7, she is old enough to start so I decided to build a tiny trainer.
I got my foam board from Wal Mart, it was called ghostline foam, and it felt remarkably solid, it was glossy and smooth with grid lines ghosted on one side, so I picked up a couple of squares.
I followed the instructions to the T and was very minimal with glue. I took it out to maiden it, and it flew like a heavy pig. It wasn't near as "floaty" as I thought a trainer should be, and I was wrestling with it the whole time with a 3S battery in it. No 7 year old is going to learn to fly on this. The CG was good. I put it on the postage scale, and it weighed 600g.
To make sure the motor wasn't bad (it had been laying around for a while) I loaded my electronics up into my arrow after all these years and it flew great. It is far lighter, but made from DTFB.
So I did use 9g servos as opposed to 5g, but it won't account for that much weight, right? The only thing I can think of is that ghostline foam weighs far more than the dtfb. Either way, the plane feels very heavy and not very trainer like.
I found some Elmer's foam board at work, and it seems closer to dtfb. I think I'll just build a mini speedster out of the Elmer's board and see how it plays out. It looks like a good traineresque plane right? What do you all think?
I got my foam board from Wal Mart, it was called ghostline foam, and it felt remarkably solid, it was glossy and smooth with grid lines ghosted on one side, so I picked up a couple of squares.
I followed the instructions to the T and was very minimal with glue. I took it out to maiden it, and it flew like a heavy pig. It wasn't near as "floaty" as I thought a trainer should be, and I was wrestling with it the whole time with a 3S battery in it. No 7 year old is going to learn to fly on this. The CG was good. I put it on the postage scale, and it weighed 600g.
To make sure the motor wasn't bad (it had been laying around for a while) I loaded my electronics up into my arrow after all these years and it flew great. It is far lighter, but made from DTFB.
So I did use 9g servos as opposed to 5g, but it won't account for that much weight, right? The only thing I can think of is that ghostline foam weighs far more than the dtfb. Either way, the plane feels very heavy and not very trainer like.
I found some Elmer's foam board at work, and it seems closer to dtfb. I think I'll just build a mini speedster out of the Elmer's board and see how it plays out. It looks like a good traineresque plane right? What do you all think?
