And brushless would be AWESOME! just maybe scale the plans up a bit?

Ya, that's probably what I have to do.

I just bought the UM F-27Q Stryker 180 for the 2S guts from Advantage Hobby that's on sale right now for just under $60 shipped with the coupon code Facebookfive.

http://www.advantagehobby.com/193589/PKZU2280/

Oh, come on, please don't tempt me like that- I can't get anything else for another month.

Sorry about that. Just sharing.

There will be other good deals in the future, I'm sure. So concentrate on your current build. Besides, February is a short month.

Super barlow, No the green one is a 12" nutball with champ brick and 4site motor. The other is my own taken from the pie yak design. Looking at it I guess it is a shortened PieYak.
They are covered with celophane wrap from the dollar store. Both hover and fly great.
The next build I am going to try dave reaps suggestion of plastic bag material.
JCS

SB, Forgot to say These are easier to fly than the Champ. They can fly much slower and as fast.
JCS

Cool!


For the plastic bag covering, it's really tough to get the thing to be stretched out when you put it on. If you need to shrink it, use a hair dryer, but sparingly. If you shrink it too much, it will deform the foam fuse.

Here are some pictures of the build!

The plane! It looks AWESOME!



Here's the Underbelly



And finally the motor


Now I'm just waiting to go to my LHS to get some carbon fiber for push rods, and for servos that I ordered to show up on my doorstep.

nice!

Thanks!

Unfortunately, the foam that I am using is not the lightest stuff, and I'm at 30g right now without pushrods, batteries, or aileron servos. I'm thinking that I should have an AUW of 40G.

It that an OK weight? This is my first build, so I'm not sure about some of the details.

After I finish this first try, I plan to get some EPP and try again, maybe milling.

Looks like your build is coming along!

Of course, lighter is better, but ~40g is fine. It might have trouble hovering, but your plane will fly just fine. I've seen much heavier plane that fly just fine. Once you have a couple of builds under your belt, you'll get better at building them lighter.

What are you using for glue?

Originally Posted by SuperBarlow

Cool!


For the plastic bag covering, it's really tough to get the thing to be stretched out when you put it on. If you need to shrink it, use a hair dryer, but sparingly. If you shrink it too much, it will deform the foam fuse.

use a digital modeling iron set to 107 -110 degrees , keep the iron moving and the results are good...a depron frame will deform with the tension, so I moved on to a CF framework, with good results
Note the deformation can be handy.. on a wing you can use this shrink to make it into an undercambered wing shape..the material being under the wing...
the 1 cell setup is flying at 45gms..pic1.... 1sqft
the 2 cell is at 90 gms.. pics 2 and 3.....1.5sqft

Here is the Axis v4 in 16". 4site guts. 2 and 3mm epp but needed a lot of cf to firm it up. 31g without batt.

JCS

Why did you do it 16"?

Anyways, without the ailerons, I did a maiden flight today! I had a bunch of trouble flying it because there wasn't very much coupling

It flew much beyond my expectation for it! I even stuck on some weight on the wings to simulate the aileron servos and it still could hover! (But only on a full battery)

I think this plane'll be a huge ball of fun.

Super, The only chance to get it 32g and under. I build heavy. I do have the bigger printed out. If the 16" flys good I will build the bigger, It printed to 22" and put the APO5 on it.

JCS