That's about how I felt when I finally got my first rubber powered plane to fly, the R/C ones never quite make me feel like a kid the way the rubber powered ones do.Scirocco14FP wrote:I know I'm a grown man (46) but I have to admit to a feeling of kid-like glee watching the little Stuka climb into the sky.
Flyability????????
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SteveM
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Re: First flights a success!!
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flash52
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I remember as a kid the first time I got a built up balsa model to fly good. I had about a half dozen models under my belt but I just could not figure out my problem. Everything was strait as a kid could make it. They test glided just fine. My problem was that they stalled under power. I was baffled. I was getting a pretty good static collection going. Then one day I tried something. I don't remember why I did it, I guess I tried everything else. I put a piece of 1/16 balsa behind the thrust button. Well it improved my stalling under power. I thought i was on to something. They didn't fly long but at least they flew. To this day the joy is still there watching what was once a box of balsa and tissue climbing in a left turn under power. This learning curve of building and flying planes helped me a bunch when I eventually started building and flying rc.
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Scirocco14FP
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Anders
I tested my 400 series Me109 today. 
first test ended with a crash lading after a few feets.
test nuber two ended with the aircraft upside down
But after some adjustment on the main wing it flew
its a good flier, i had some five minutes with flying before i tried to land it, i took down the trottle and took it down to 3-4 meters above the ground. And then suddently a stall.
it ended up in a three, but not a scratch, a perfect crash landing
i could see the problem imideatly, not enough weight in the front...
but this is a easy ting to fix, never a problem to make a plane heavy
looking forvard to fly it again, a little more weight in the front this time
first test ended with a crash lading after a few feets.
test nuber two ended with the aircraft upside down
But after some adjustment on the main wing it flew
its a good flier, i had some five minutes with flying before i tried to land it, i took down the trottle and took it down to 3-4 meters above the ground. And then suddently a stall.
it ended up in a three, but not a scratch, a perfect crash landing
i could see the problem imideatly, not enough weight in the front...
but this is a easy ting to fix, never a problem to make a plane heavy
looking forvard to fly it again, a little more weight in the front this time
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Anders
http://forum.strand-mfk.org/phpBB3/view ... 6089#p6089
here is a link to a picture of the model, the pic in the middle at the bottom is my aircraft
here is a link to a picture of the model, the pic in the middle at the bottom is my aircraft