Mike at "wingmanrc.net" stopped by with his newest plane the Zippa, a 22" EPP flying wing. The wing was Pre-assembled for me but I would imagine this plane goes together just as quick and easy as all his other planes if not easier. I used a 12A Hobby King ESC, a 2730-1500kv motor, a 7035 prop and a 1300mah 3S LiPo. The servos are sub micro no name servos I had lying around. I added a 12" piece of round carbon just in front of the motor mount piece. Near the wing tip I added two 4" pieces of carbon. The carbon stiffens the wing considerably. I had all the electronics pre-wired so installation took about an hour. I didn't do anything fancy with the electronics and just glued or velcro'd everything on top of the wing. CG was set as described in the manual at 130mm from the nose. I am flying with a Spektrum DX6i and an OrangeRX DSM receiver.
Was able to get to a park a few hours after getting it flight ready. Hand launching is a bit hard with this wing. This is the first wing I have flown and find that to be the hardest thing you will encounter with this wing. I first tried to start no throttle and throw it like a paper airplane. It worked the first time and flew great. I landed it and tried a paper airplane launch again. Now it didn't work. I ran into the problem of my finger flicking the back end sending it nose up into inverted and into a crash. This happened a few more times then I transitioned to holding it by he front of the left wing with about
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