hello all
my fiancee brought me this small twin motor rc plane.
seems to just use the two motors for direction and lift
any tips on flying it, i throw it, and gave it full power but it just glided
into the ground?
I wanted a plane like this to just get a little air time, as i have a piper
cub i am also trying to build, how ever ill go to a rc club to fly that.
Looked on the website provided, but did not see any model airplane
images. It is difficult to reply without knowing which airplane you
have, but it sounds like a differential thrust design with no tail
control. These reviews and guidelines may (or may not) help.
WattAge Lightning
sure can, its a flying eagle plane made by syma.
its one of those cheap shitty ones you get of ebay, has a small 180ma
battery you charge from the controler to run the small twin motors facing
outwards in the wings..
from what i can tell, its full throttle to go up.
and left and right just slows one motor down and speeds the other up.
no flaps, no other controls are movable.
so far i managed to snap the wing off, ive used some tape to put it back
together.
plastic body, foam wings.
most of it seems to be in chineese or someting, so i cant tell ya anymore,
very small wing span, doesnt fly very well in my first attempt.
just a toy the missus brought me to reinspire me to finish off this bulsa
kit i brought 2 years ago.
its very similar to the first one, except mine doesnt have any landing gear.
hopefully it will inspire me to go out and buy a decent arf trainer and hit
the air fields
The trick with undepowered models (which this one sounds like) is not to try
and pull too much elevator after launching - as the plane sinks, the natural
reflex is to try and pull up - doing so just creates drag and stops the
plane building speed enough to fly.
Try and find a bit of a downward slope facing the wind, arc her up and give
her a stable chuck into the wind at full throttle let her sink as she gains
speed, all the way to the ground if necessary, and then start pulling in
elevator very lightly to keep her just off the deck. With any luck, just
when you think she's had it, she'll start to climb slowly and begin to fly.
Mad,
Check the tail assembly to see if it's leading/forward edge can be
lowered, and it's trailing/rear edge can be raised....ever so slightly.
Also; launch INTO the wind! It won't handle much wind, but launch into
the little wind you find on a calm day.
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Jim L.
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This one doesn't have elevators.
You get two engines, each one independently controlled. More power and
it climbs. Less and itr comes down. Differential thrust makes it turn...
i accually was mucking around in the yard to see if i can get it to do
something
id has some kinda scored panels you can move,
i moved the front ones behind the engines to give it some lift and a little
bit of rudder to straiten her out.
so i should move the ones on teh tail as well
so far i got it in the air, it went strait for the ground, then it appeared
to start to climb, before hitting the fense and snapping a prop. so ill take
it to the park and give it another shot with some more flap on the back.
Yup.
The idea is to make a plane that is similar to an RC car,so that it
takes minimal skill to control it.
It takes more than usual skill to trim it as a result.
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