Monday, March 10, 2014

One Day Of Decent Weather!

I took advantage, yesterday, of one day of weather good enough to fly. I used four different models: the Easy Trainer 1280, the Firebird Stratos, The FMS 800, and the Cessna Champ. The FMS 800 is a lot less twitchy and more fun to fly now that I have converted it into a rudder, throttle, elevator only plane, by unplugging the ailerons and plugging the rudder servo into the aileron slot in the receiver. I smoothed over the ailerons with tape. I'm keeping the plane like this. When I can find suitable thin, light, foam, I will extend the wingtips, effectively creating more dihedral. Or, I might try cutting partway through the wingtips from the bottom, chordwise, so I can bend the tips up. I can fill the gap this would create at the bottom of the wing with foam and sand smooth. I'd like to get the wings swept up as sharply as they are on a Radian.

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