"Cargo Plane", named "Twin Hopper", flew this morning. Flight performance is not as good as I wanted, but at least I have an intact airframe to try again. Enough about that, there's more planes to build!

Almost done with this new plane, it looks larger in the photo than it actually is. The wing span is only about 29 inches, and I expect AUW to be in the 200-300 gram range.

This arrived yesterday, a few days early compared to when Amazon said it would arrive.

I've been using it for my current cargo plane build, and I like it a lot. Works great on foam board, gets really hot (200 watts, ~400F). Very little dripage during idle times. Finally semi-retiring my old Stanley 40 watt glue gun which I used for I can't count how many years, ever since I started using hot glue. This Stanley gun leaked a lot, it would drip about the same amount of glue that I used. Semi-retiring because it has a low and high setting, I need the low setting for EPS foam.

The new one from AdTech has only one setting (high), and no switch, just plug it in. Works great!

Cargo plane is under construction for the Fourth of July weekend, which now is almost over (boohoo).

I still need to build the main landing gear, the nacelles, and then install electronics. Design was inspired by FliteTest's "Guinea Pig". Also trying some building techniques I learned from FliteTest. Materials are all Dollar Tree foam board, wing span 50 inches. Will be powered by a pair of HURC 2410-12D (from Heads Up RC in Florida - great place (the online store, can't say for the state since I've never been to Florida)). These are the same motors that were in my 200th build (200-2012).

That's the nose of So.50 in the background.

"Tomorrow", my new flying wing, flew this morning. It flies quite well, but I think I need to add some expo onto the elevator function.

Sure is nice to have a four-day weekend! I'm starting my twin-motor cargo plane today!

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Just finished plane number 220, as yet unnamed. It will maiden tomorrow morning.

Next I plan to construct a twin-motor sort of cargo plane, maybe with a 60-inch wingspan, or I may reduce down to 50-inch. It may actually have two ailerons instead of one! Imagine that!