Solved Wet Grass and DTFB

[BATTLEAXE]

That looks awesome! You might want to reinforce the skewer joints. As nice as hot glue is, landing can stress an break the weakest joints. Wrap some strong thread around the joints and spread some additional hot glue across the thread. Cheap and easy.

Yea I know, I just wanted to see how it would turn out for weight and how it would fly. Like I said the next one I will scale up and use CA. I have dine the thread wrap before and used CA to soak the thread as well, super strong

Takes a bit of time but it is so worth it.

@BATTLEAXE How does the wright flyer fly as a chuck glider?

It turned out so light that you have to give it a light toss or the nose will balloon up and flip it over, but if you get the toss right, the glide slope is slight and stable. I imagine that if you tossed it from a second story balcony it would get some good distance. If it scaled up to say a 25-30" wing span and put twin A pack on it with 6" slow fly props it would be a great indoor flyer.

 

[The Hangar]

Yea I know, I just wanted to see how it would turn out for weight and how it would fly. Like I said the next one I will scale up and use CA. I have dine the thread wrap before and used CA to soak the thread as well, super strong View attachment 150582
Takes a bit of time but it is so worth it.


It turned out so light that you have to give it a light toss or the nose will balloon up and flip it over, but if you get the toss right, the glide slope is slight and stable. I imagine that if you tossed it from a second story balcony it would get some good distance. If it scaled up to say a 25-30" wing span and put twin A pack on it with 6" slow fly props it would be a great indoor flyer.

Or you could do leave it as is and do something like @FoamyDM did with his micro P-38...

 

[BATTLEAXE]

Or you could do leave it as is and do something like @FoamyDM did with his micro P-38...

How so?

 

[FoamyDM]

Look at the C-17 from banggood.
I put those guys on a different plane.

 

[Flite Risk]

I was sort of looking for better solutions! You know, not the one's you would do.

Line the bottom of the fuse and bottom of wings with gorilla tape. Its like monokote but ya dont need to heat it, i believe it adds more strength than monokote.

 

[The Hangar]

How so?

Give the two motors an upward thrust angle so when you throttle up the plane rises. Then you use differential to steer, and boom - you have an rc plane for like $20!

 

[L Edge]

That's what I'm afraid of. No paint. No protection. I want to take my full fleet out. It's not worth it if I don't have any planes left to fly.

There is one other factor that you should consider and that is your transmitter when it is raining or snow. If you do fly in the rain, have a covering over it. Had an experience where water seeped down into the gimbals and guess what, it can short out the system and result , I lost a Q500 racing plane.

Same with thunderstorms, flying a heli next to one company building and we had an approaching one, heard the rumble so kept going. Still sunny. All of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye, a bolt of lightning hit the air conditioner on the roof. Scared the crap out of me, couldn't get the chopper down fast enough and will never do that again.

 

[BATTLEAXE]

There is one other factor that you should consider and that is your transmitter when it is raining or snow. If you do fly in the rain, have a covering over it. Had an experience where water seeped down into the gimbals and guess what, it can short out the system and result , I lost a Q500 racing plane.

Same with thunderstorms, flying a heli next to one company building and we had an approaching one, heard the rumble so kept going. Still sunny. All of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye, a bolt of lightning hit the air conditioner on the roof. Scared the crap out of me, couldn't get the chopper down fast enough and will never do that again.

 

[Jackson T]

There is one other factor that you should consider and that is your transmitter when it is raining or snow. If you do fly in the rain, have a covering over it. Had an experience where water seeped down into the gimbals and guess what, it can short out the system and result , I lost a Q500 racing plane.

Same with thunderstorms, flying a heli next to one company building and we had an approaching one, heard the rumble so kept going. Still sunny. All of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye, a bolt of lightning hit the air conditioner on the roof. Scared the crap out of me, couldn't get the chopper down fast enough and will never do that again.

What happened to the chopper?

 

[The Hangar]

Same with thunderstorms, flying a heli next to one company building and we had an approaching one, heard the rumble so kept going. Still sunny. All of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye, a bolt of lightning hit the air conditioner on the roof. Scared the crap out of me, couldn't get the chopper down fast enough and will never do that again.

You could have hired me or @BATTLEAXE to land your chopper. I‘m sure either of us would have gotten it down faster than you - whether or not there a thunder storm to scare us!!

 

[buzzbomb]

@buzzbomb how'd it turn out?

It didn't. It started raining again this afternoon.

 

[BATTLEAXE]

It didn't. It started raining again this afternoon.

PAINT YOUR PLANES... You seem to have time to whine about it , use the time to resolve it

 

[The Hangar]

PAINT YOUR PLANES... You seem to have time to whine about it , use the time to resolve it

Hmm, and they look better too...

 

[K3V0]

Make plastic kitchen wrap panels that match the planes lines. Then tack them down tightly with ca glue. You could even use wax paper or equivalent. But maybe the tape job over all is the easiest.
However you decided to deal with it I hope you’re out flying and getting your fix in 🤪

I’m in a similarly damp boat @buzzbomb, it’s been rainy and wet here. I took my storch out after a storm and it still got plenty wet from taxiing/landing on wet pavement. It’s a painted plane but even so, some parts got a little soft. It’s been home and dry for a week now so it’s back together and ready to go. I’m excited to fly the mini mustang I’m putting together for @The Hangar ’s Big Bang of Mustangs thread but, again, rain! I bit the bullet and picked up some min wax so it’ll be a day or two before flying that one.

 

[The Hangar]

Make plastic kitchen wrap panels that match the planes lines. Then tack them down tightly with ca glue. You could even use wax paper or equivalent. But maybe the tape job over all is the easiest.
However you decided to deal with it I hope you’re out flying and getting your fix in 🤪

I’m in a similarly damp boat @buzzbomb, it’s been rainy and wet here. I took my storch out after a storm and it still got plenty wet from taxiing/landing on wet pavement. It’s a painted plane but even so, some parts got a little soft. It’s been home and dry for a week now so it’s back together and ready to go. I’m excited to fly the mini mustang I’m putting together for @The Hangar ’s Big Bang of Mustangs thread but, again, rain! I bit the bullet and picked up some min wax so it’ll be a day or two before flying that one.

It’s been just wet and nasty here as well. I flew my bushwacker and that was fine of course since it’s made from Flitetest foam board, but I also flew my spitfire which is dtfb and the spray paint seemed to protect it a lot. I am buying Minwax for my P-38 though...

 

[BATTLEAXE]

min wax so it’ll be a day or two before flying that one.

There you go @buzzbomb, that's the program you need to be on. Do this to your already built planes and you will be much more happier flying then staring out the window with this look on your face

 

[The Hangar]

There you go @buzzbomb, that's the program you need to be on. Do this to your already built planes and you will be much more happier flying then staring out the window with this look on your face

Do it buzz, or buy ftfb - I'm super impressed with it actually.

 

[BATTLEAXE]

Do it buzz, or buy ftfb - I'm super impressed with it actually.

Now that's what we call peer pressure lol

 

[The Hangar]

Now that's what we call peer pressure lol

Lol - well I just flew my ftfb arrowhead in our backyard even though it was super wet and it even started sprinkling. My esc may have gone bad but I'm not sure.

 

[BATTLEAXE]

My esc may have gone bad but I'm not sure.

I water proofed mine with HG and electrical tape after that last incident I had with the Bloody Baron