Paint Scheme:Inspired from a German ME-109 I built as a kid.
Paint Used:Delta Ceramcoat Acrylic Craft Paint from Hobby Lobby ($1ea). Finished off with several coats of Minwax Semi-Gloss Polycrylic spray (blue can).
Decals:Images found on the intarweb. I printed them on CD/DVD labels with my inkjet, cut them out, and stuck them on before the clear-coating.
Speed:Doppler does not like the two motors and four whistles. I got the screwiest-looking graph I've ever seen in wavoscope. I'd give a ballparkguessof about 65-70mph
Canards:Functional via custom mixing with the delta program in my DX7 (rudder channel)
Thrust Vectoring:Accomplished via four custom mixes in my DX7 (Flap and Gear Channels).
Electronics:
Canard Servo: 9 gramm metal gear servo
Elevon Servos: TowerPro SG-90 (x2)
Thrust Vectoring Servos: 17-18 gramm metal gear servo (x2)
Tx Programming:As one might expect, she's can be pretty touchy.I use 50% expo on ELEV and 40% on AILE with 100% full throws. The canards are mixed to ELEV at 35%. All the trust-vectoring mixes are 47% to both ELEV and AILE.
CG:I highly recommend that you start at the 10.5CM mark and work your way forward to taste from there. When all was said and done, I had to add 1.5oz of lead to the nose to get my CG where I wanted it. Believe me when I tell you that you do not want this bird to be tail-heavy.
I can`t think of a cheaper way to build an ultra-durable RC plane than by using two very tough materials: coreflute and pool noodles, along with some simple tools such as scissors and an old...
This article describes my building plan and steps. I've got many requests to declare the PDF Plan after sharing my images. I have made 2 units of this design and the first one flew good. ...
