I've been able to fly something just about every day this past week. I took advantage of very light wind yesterday evening to fly the EZ Hawk. I set the cg to make it nose heavy and used full throttle to maintain altitude. It flew fairly fast and I just made circuits of the park, like a pylon course. This plane went through a lot. Several months ago it crashed into a tree. I got it down but a wing had sheared off. I put the wing back on with hot glue and used reinforced packing tape to beef up the entire airplane, and reinforced the aileron hinges, adding cambered extensions in the process. When I was still learning how to launch these planes it went in nose first and split and deformed the foam forward fuselage. That was also repaired with hot glue and packing tape. I reinforced the forward fuselage internally with basswood strips. I added a lot of weight but the plane still flies well. At some point I will decide that it has given me enough service and I will strip out the servos and motor and speed control and Spektrum receiver. I've been thinking about a PNP Radian or a larger Dynam powered glider. There are lots of options. My objective would be something I could fly at a higher altitude and farther out, for better flight video.
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