Dynaflite Piece O' Cake

[Oxxo]

Has anyone had experience flying a Dynaflite Piece O' Cake? Any tips or tricks on flying it?

I'm using a Norvel BigMig .061 for power. Also, here are a few shots of my bird!

[eliworm]

Sweet!! Should be much fun.

Jim

[johnvb]

They fly great. Quite slow, and with a good glide. Very hard to get into trouble with one of these.

I flew mine with a TT GP07, which was just right, and an OS10FP which was a bit heavy.

The only real grief I had was crunching the tailplane carrying it through doorways :rolleyes:

Oh, and make sure it balances where the instructions/plan say. They tend to come out tail heavy.

Enjoy!

PS: looks like you did a nice job on yours.

[TLyttle]

Can you say "powered sailplane"? It will be LOTS of fun this summer; you should be able to get 1hr flights out of it, no problem...

[Tshires]

Nice plane! Reminds me of my old Piece O Cake. It was a nice flying plane way back in 1980. Had a blast learning to fly with it. Even flew well in Colorado with the thin air. I had a Cox 049 Black widow on it. Ill scan an old pic of it and post it here tomorow. (pic was before digi cams were invented!) Nothing left of the plane except good memories!

[Oxxo]

I am excited to fly it. How well does it handle windy conditions? I was going to take it out today, but decided that it was too windy. I ended up watching my friend struggle to fly his electric Aerobird in the wind instead.

[billrcpilot]

They don't do well in much wind. I would say try to fly in wind 10 mph or less. flew mind in about 15 mph and like to never got it down in one piece.

Bill

[TLyttle]

Yeah, it's a summertime plane, calm air, light breezes. However, you will learn a lot from it, have a lot of fun with it, and if you contain your enthusiasm, fly it for a long time. There is no point to pushing a model like that, it will get destroyed.

A model like that is wonderful near sundown, when the air is calming down, and the sun isn't in your eyes!

[muddy69]

Great job on the plane. Looks like you already built it so you know they turn out tail heavy. I originally used a Cox Killer Bee .051, which is shorter and lighter than the black widow they suggest so I lengthened the nose a little and cut some lightening holes in the fuse to compensate. After I banged it up a little, I used it as my small engine test plane. If I had engine problems I could easily glide it back home. Mine didn't like the wind at all, I flew it a couple times in 10+ mph winds, which was interesting but not really fun. They make good foggy day fliers, you can fly them slow and low without having to worry about stalling or getting too far away.