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If you want to stop the squeaking and shave off half an ounce while you are at it...replace the composite wing rod with a real CF rod. No more squeaking, and no more wing-flapping either. This is the best mod you could possibly make to this plane. More control too..........
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I ordered my Radian pro yesterday, now I just have to wait for it to arrive Just have a quick question, I ordered the PNP version so have ordered a couple of Zippy 3s batteries to go with the one Zippy I already have. This will give me 2 x 1300mah to use as a stock setup and 1 x 1600mah. However, I am concerned that they may not fit the battery plug on the pro's ESC. Is this true? If so would it be likely that my LHS would have adaptors or is this something I can only order from HobbyKing? I really don't want to wait 3-4 weeks for one to come in from HK. The batteries are stocked in the Australia warehouse so only take a few days but the plugs/leads (if required) are stocked in the Hong Kong warehouse which takes foooreeevvver. Cheers guys, and thanks for the great and informative thread. There is so much to read through!!! |
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Of all the foam sailplanes, few can keep up with those "shiny expensive" sailplanes, but of those the Pro is the most capable of embarrassing a composite wonder occasionally, so you're on the right track there. In fact, those guys with the expensive toys will be envious that yours costs under $200, and for the most part can keep up with them. Sonny |
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Sonny, Great info, thanks, more stuff to try! Yeah, the RP definitely took some getting used to, but I flew it all last season and learned a lot. One thing the sailplane book taught me was if you're looking for performance, you should probably fly faster than seems right.
Yeah, I need to put the reflex/camber function back into the mix, I took it out to experiment with some other functions (limited mixes on my radio) and then winter happened. We'll see if reducing the decalage gives me more speed range, but that was one thing I thought could use improving and with the stiffer tail assy, maybe it won't suffer from high speed elevator control issues. It should, but as they say, theory works best in theory. So we shall see. Hopefully the rains will end before this coming weekend does, and I can get it out and provide a flight test report. |
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Somebody has finally done it !!!!!
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned on this forum that it should be possible to have the aileron servo arms going up into the wing instead of sticking out the bottom. A guy just did that to his Parkzone Mustang, and it would be the same to do it on the Radian Pro. It's a little different than I would have (could have, should have) done, but the concept is basically the same.
I'm not sure how to make a link to a single post, but here's a link to the page anyway... https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...70619&page=716 |
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To copy a single post go to the right side of the post and click the post number, which gives you the " View Single Post". Having the control rods come out the top of the wing would reduce servo stripping on a hard landing for sure, but I wonder what it would do to the structural strength of the wing. Sonny |
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Thanks for the info on the link. A guy could always embed some small carbon rods into a weak area, but I bet those useless plastic wing mount things would break before the wing would. The way I was thinking of doing it would be to have the control rod inside the wing, and pop out of the underside just ahead of the hinge. The "horn" would be extremely short and the other end of the rod would be on one of the inner holes of the servo arm.
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View from Above trying to film a friend
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Hey, right on EZCanuck!! The last I heard from you on this was "I think I might have just talked myself into another mod for the next snow storm." but then I never heard that you actually did it. Excellent. Things are moving forward and this plane is getting better.
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