That will be Westfoam, it’s aroubd 30% heavier than FT board, so your CG will end up different to the plans. Welcome to the Forums, FT Foam is available in the UK for £2-3 per sheet as are speedbuild kits.
Ok fair play, I didn't realise they simply won't fly with the heavier stuff, I thought it would just be slower and use more power.
The good news is I haven't spent 3 evenings cutting it from the wrong board lol.
I've pretty much been and done most things RC over 35+ years but never played with foam planes, the flite test YouTube videos have had me hooked for a few weeks now and I look back at all that balsa bashing I've done in the past and wonder why I've never tried foam lol.
Glad to be part of the forum (at last lol). Thanks for your advice.
Not true, some things I flew had a 3 to 1 weight to thrust ratio so 90 oz plane with 30 oz thrust. Then there's gliders with no thrust.It will fly, you may just have to put a more powerful setup into it, for a decent flier have atleast a 1 to 1 ratio thrust versus weight . 30 oz plane , 30oz thrust minimum. Once built you can always do a vertical thrust test, at 1/2 throttle or so it should start lifting out of you hand. If it takes full throttle to do it, it will barely fly.
Not true, some things I flew had a 3 to 1 weight to thrust ratio so 90 oz plane with 30 oz thrust. Then there's gliders with no thrust.
Do yourself a favour if it’s your first FT build, buy a Speedbuild kit, plus some sheets of FT board. It’s much easier flying a plane without compensating for it being tail heavy. I have built 6ft designs, 3 with westboard, all the westboard ones were very hard to balance and didn’t fly as well as the FT board ones. Sure you pay a few pounds more for lighter board, but especially with the smaller planes light weight is everything. The lighter your build the easier it will be to fly slowly and the more chance you have of successful first flights. Gravity wins every time!
@Wildthing If the plane dimensions are the same but the foam is denser and the scaling stays the same the tail is always heavier, as FT oversize their tails compared to the length of the nose. The CG is the same spot BUT you need a ton more weight upfront to balance it out, this means a fat bird with more wing loading. Fatal on minis and not good on larger builds if you want a floaty forgiving flight. If you have more flying experience it’s not a problem or if you mod the design, but no good for new pilots.
I don't think they will,you might try to channel out the foam in the area where they will be and leave the paper .You might have to reinforce the where you do that and always try on a scrap piece first.You can even try to see how well they will show through on a fresh piece and a piece with the foam channeled out.Will led light strips show through fite test foam board?
I'm never too old to learn, I've not done foam planes before so there's still new stuff lol.
I fly sensibly and ignore stupid rules, I'm on my own land most of the time anyway but I'm surrounded by fields rather than concrete so I've never had a problem.
I hadn't heard these new rules on flying during night, I'm going to pretend I still haven't lol.
Really? Thats just absurd.
Edit, that's what the lights inside are for so I can find all the bits lol