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.
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. ...
