fulll out combat with scratch builds :D

imran1042 · July 18, 2013, 03:10:32 PM

hey everyone!

Imran L is coming over to my house tomorrow and since we have soooo many servos, esc's and motors from crashed planes, we decided to buy cheap foam and make 2 scratch builds and have full out combat with them

. Were not making anything big or special, just some delta wing planes that we will spend a few hours on.

so that way not to much time is wasted into something that we will break :p We will keep the post updated throughout the day tomorrow! Also my Eflite Mini funtana X is arriving tomorrow! so maybe ill start on that too! We got this idea from watching Flighttest's videos on youtube

battlestu · July 18, 2013, 04:53:15 PM

why not start with streamers like the morning crew do at Temac

imran1042 · July 18, 2013, 05:43:36 PM

Sure

if anyone else has any ideas we will go with it. The point is we are making little planes to have fun with

Condor13 · July 19, 2013, 10:44:10 AM

From the 'morning group'. We have at least six foam delta aircraft flying combat. We copied the design from a US club. I'll get the web site. They fly really well

imran1042 · July 19, 2013, 11:35:47 AM

Thanks!
Imran L can't come over anymore and I was going to go with him to get foam so ill post on here when we start

hopefully tomorrow.

Condor13 · July 19, 2013, 08:09:35 PM

The Delta that the "Morning Group" are flying has a free set of plans at:
Www.warwingdelta.com.

The foam is the Blue insulating foam from Lowes.
A 4 x 8 sheet for $6 will make two planes.

John

Michael · July 19, 2013, 11:08:03 PM

I've seen these planes fly; they're terrific!

imran13 · July 28, 2013, 11:59:21 PM

guys, they are finished

here are the build pics

mine is basically finished, but the hinges are kinda messy and need to be redone, and servos haven't been installed yet..

anybody got any tips for the hinges? i tried using hot glue to make the hinges, but it didn't really work.

all feedback is welcome

sorry i couldn't upload them to the forum again, files too large.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/312evhbbdshnqzy/dpx6qRpPG8

imran1042 · July 29, 2013, 11:03:10 PM

well.. they flew

here are the results:

Imran L's plane:
Maiden flight: reached a good altitude but once the first turn was made, the plane came down on a steep angle and hit the ground, only the motor mount broke, We repaired it.
Second flight: Flew amazing, good amount of vertical, did loops, rolls. Flaws, stalling speed is really high and you must land fast in order to keep the nose leveled.

My plane:
Maiden flight and only flight so far: Reached a high altitude, flew fast and was capable of flying really slow, easy to flare, do rolls, loops, fly inverted and amazing vertical climb.

so both planes flew and they are perfectly fine

so, successful build!