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Those boxed Pico Moths are pretty special. I have a couple of those too - very hard to come by these days.
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The motors are brushed. The 300s have plenty of power on 2S lipos. The are several posts earlier in this thread. The BN2 flies fast but nice and the sound of two motors is cool. I rounded off the leading edge of the wings from the motors outboard to reduce tip stalling. The way the brushed motors mount it is much easier to use them rather than modify the wings to go brushless. Where I live they use BN2s as mosquito sprayers so it's kinda neat to have a model. |
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I never flew an Islander. There have been a couple of them at the field lately, though,and the guys seem to really like them.
Just finished the 3C trainer - yes I have a new drill. I will have to get to the field a little early for a trim flight or two before the grand kids show up. Tristan, now 9 yrs old, was about ready to solo last year when we he stopped flying. If he has not forgotten too much, maybe he can make a solo flight tomorrow - that would be pretty cool Winds are supposed to be under 5 mph all morning - should be good day to fly Wolfe |
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I've had some bumpy landings but never a lawn dart and the plane is just fine. Strange to see this somewhat clunky looking highwing twin roll like a dream. |
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Don't know when I'll get to it though, as I want to build the Formosa, Pico Moth and Zero first. And maybe the P-38. LOL |
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Got a pretty good start on it today. You can see we doubled the
length of the spars and did it in CF. The ESC should be here tomorrow and then I can put all the parts on and find the CoG and get things in their proper location. We have all kinds of 2S and 3S batteries in the 90 to 150g range. The recommended battery was 155g. |
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Good outing with one of my son's and grandson's this morning. They each flew 4 batteries through the 4C trainer and both did very well. Good to see them back at the field
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Good to fly in warm weather.
After pulling my kids and their slag up and down hills 20 times, I was all sweaty and decided to fly a bit. So, I was flying in 23 degree with 14 mph wind. That's a new record for me. But I found my batteries lost their teeth. Not enough power to pull out off diving, and my thumbs lost the feels too, so have many unexpected vertical landings. Lucky no serious damage except a prop after 5 batteries. Probably will go out again if the wind die. |
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