What Did You Fly Today
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L Edge
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Tired of designing, took out the F_117, the A-10 64mm EDF Warthog, and DarkStar and had a blast. My favorite is the Warthog which you can roll over with tight turns at low altitude and attack the tanks!!!! Just wish I could add the sound of the guns.
Here is what it can do in a tight area..
Here is what it can do in a tight area..
Flew the Drift for over an hour on a 2S LiIon pack. Was testing adjustments I made to the Navigation settings to reduce the turning radius to something more reasonable for a plane this small and agile. Could still use a little less throttle in cruise mode. Made adjustments to battery settings in the lua script to get alerts based on the LiIon pack rather than the 750mah LiPo. Seing how far out I can go LOS without loosing sight. .3 to .5 miles for a super small plane is pretty far out. If/when I lost sight, I would activate Return To Home. (had already validated that functionality) Have ELRS configured to automagically increase power if need be. So far it has never gone up from 25mw.
Shurik-1960
Well-known member
LEdge. On the flight of your model : I would try to add 10-15 grams of lead to the nose (on tape) and the model will fly better.
L Edge
Master member
Piotrsko:
You are correct. This was the maiden flight after solving what the problems were trying to fly with EDF's. As we get older, the reaction time gets slower, so I tend to have an aft CG which makes the plane twitchy at the controls. As I try the flight environment, I get a better feel and as you can see, beginning to home in, especially at low altitudes and sharp turns.
Flyingshark
Master member
what motor/prop does it use? I might build that
Rhaps
Elite member
Good to hear that there is at lest one potential builder
C-pack motor, 10x4.5 prop 1.3 3s battery is what I've used
Flyingshark
Master member
Thanks for the info—I don’t have a C pack free right now, but I’m looking forward to the plans! Maybe I can build a mini version or something. I love the clean lines!Good to hear that there is at lest one potential builder
C-pack motor, 10x4.5 prop 1.3 3s battery is what I've used
Edit: just noticed the plans thread after I posted lol
shadeyB
Legendary member
Thanks buddy 👍 in the UK we call it “reheat” but for me it’s always gonna be afterburners 😂🫣 turn n burn baby
Foamforce
Elite member
Glad yours works! I’ve had it with mine and I’m not fixing it again, although I finally figured out what was going wrong.
A few weeks ago I was flying it in windy conditions and doing ok. Suddenly it goes completely vertical and drills straight into the ground from about 50 feet up. I was going fast, it wasn’t a stall. I couldn’t find any immediate issues, so I glued it back together.
Last week I took it out to remaiden. When I did the control surface check, I noticed that the elevator would only go down, not up. I took a look and found that a little white pushrod guide for the elevator had come loose at the rear of the fuselage, and was jamming the servo. I popped it back into place and it seemed pretty sturdy. Since I hadn’t seen this when I tested after the crash, I assumed that this was hangar rash. Spoiler alert, it was not. 😂
So of course I fly it again and it goes fine for five minutes, then suddenly it violently lawn darts again. This time I immediately check that pushrod guide, and of course it has popped out again. So yeah, it was my fault for not immediately realizing that the pushrod guide was the initial problem, but it’s also a design flaw that has probably torpedoed a bunch of these. Keep an eye on it, and probably use some super glue to make sure the pushrod guide never moves!
In the photo, the part to watch out for is the white hour glass shaped bit. That’s supposed to be fully shoved up into the tail assembly tube, but it has come loose and moved forward. You can see how if the servo tries to push backwards it will jam up against it.
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These are NOT meant to be fast flyers. It is well known that they will become an unrecoverable lawn dart if they overspeed. Unfortunately, I did not realize that till AFTER I picked one up. They also fly best with some sort of stabilization. I got it to fly kinda OK on RAW pwm, but it was not something you would want to take your eyes off of for even half a second for fear that it would do something unexpected and you would not have time to react. I even broke the tail boom and had to replace it after a bad launch on my third flight.
My guides are not loose. I didn't realize they were there till I broke my original boom. I thought briefly about using a better tube but realized it would be nearly impossible to get the verticle stabilizer off without destroying it, and then figured out there were also internal guides.
Once I put a flight controller in it, it became a nice docile flyer. Very slow, and best flown in calm air. Not a very fun FPV plane unless you proximity fly, and possibly good for indoor flying.
My original intent was for it to replace my oldest Strix Nano Goblin that lawn darted at FliteFest when the very old glue on the elevon control horns broke loose when trying to pull out of a high speed dive. D'OH! This is not a good replacement and I have since picked up a new Nano Goblin kit.
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