Its starting to get where if I dont have a new plane to maiden about once a week, I get antsy. So yesterday I started thinking about a "combat" plane...even though I rarely fly with anyone else to have combat against!
I wanted to protect the prop, and Ive only flown tractors before, so I went mid-mount. I had good successes with the giant elevons on my "goldfish", so I went with the whole horizontal tails being able to move. I had great successes with the rhomboid- shaped
Dart wing before and the "dartXS" layout (no fuse forward of wing,horizontal tail touching wing, ect...). Of course, now that Im a full blown Kline-Fogleman airfoil disciple, the plane has a 50% top step KFm airfoil. Its little "beak" reminded me of a Wren's, so that's what I called it.
So, I had a maiden flight and all this morning...went OK...not my best maiden...6 flights, 2 battery's worth, about 25 min in all...no major crashes...no damage at all
. But...its very underpowered with the blue wonder motor. Not enough KV for a pusher, I suppose...I just put a pink wonder 1500kv this afternoon and we'll see how that goes this eve when the wind dies. Im flying an 8X6 slowfly prop on it right now, but Im going to try out a few others as well.
Anyways, Im still working out the kinks! Short video here from maiden:
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=729695
jasta