So I saw the parkzone KA-8 in my local hobby shop and i fell in love with it's lines I HAD to get one, so i scraped up and got a DX5e and a DX6I at my local hobby shop and ordered the plane online, LHS was out of stock
I waited anxiously for it to arrive, I threw it together and headed to the park, The weather was dead for soaring though. Still I live next to a river so i convinced my friend to climb up on the levee with it and throw it into the park below, It flew beautifully although be it short.
After that I decided to change up the paint. using acetone on the foam is ok to do, but don't let it sit for too long. i have very slight bubbling on the rudder. I wanted neon orange and black. with some deep blue got most of it painted, but i also needed to test again because i changed some settings. After the paint cured i headed to the park for a glide test, Unfortunately the paint peeled, water had gotten up under the paint and it peeled off in strips. I spent a lot of time working on it . So i headed home, and patched it up.
I decided to add a motor on the plane because I don't have a tow plane or high start, and i like how motorized gliders fly..... it was a bad idea, the motor only pushed the nose down, no matter what i tried it would just node down.
It would glide fine, but as soon as you turned on the throttle it either acted as an air brake or it pushed the nose down. luckily the nose skid i made protected the fuselage I'm definitely going...Continue Reading