Originally Posted by Jasong911

Wonder if it will slope? If they keep the weight down it might work.

Think it was seen af few seconds on a HK daily vid a few months ago, test flying on that slope mountain in china where they often go to. It did not have decals that time, but I'm pretty sure that it was the Excaliber.

Good eye

S.

if it slopes I WANNT IT

Originally Posted by Jasong911

I think the forward sweep is an optical illusion. Spar placement would be a nightmare. On a foamie no less.

I would bet on 4s power train as its being billed as a warmliner.

Wonder if it will slope? If they keep the weight down it might work.

Spar placement is not an issue with a FSW - you just need a moulded in joiner box or similar in the wing root. And yes, this should be a good slope soarer though I would not worry about weight too much - it won't be a floater and will probably have a fairly thick wing compared to a dedicated composite sloper, but given that a bit of weight will be your friend when getting it to penetrate in higher winds.

I'm just imagining a spar centered in the middle of the root (say) and extending out to the approximate middle spanwise and fore and aft on a straight wing. On a forward swept wing, the locations of the spar at the root and at the end of the spar are going to be in way different spots along the chord. Different from straight wings and just hard for me to get my head around.

I have a 20-30 mph slope with a rocky landing zone that cries out for a stiff, high performance foamie.

Wouldn't mind a flap option either.

--Jason


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This is one Gorgeous Plane!!

More footage starting at ~7m20 in this weeks update - confirmation it takes a 4S 2200...

Weekly Update Ep. 20 2016 - HobbyKing Live (9 min 26 sec)

Thanks Matt, didn't know it was there.

This is more redundant pictures. ..

This V-tail is mine!! Keep your beady eyes off her!! lol.... well done HK,.. beautiful bird
I have 2x 2200 4s Graphenes ready to burn...

Originally Posted by Dukejet

This V-tail is mine!! Keep your beady eyes off her!! lol.... well done HK,.. beautiful bird
I have 2x 2200 4s Graphenes ready to burn...

Oi I was here first

Daz

Originally Posted by Jasong911

I'm just imagining a spar centered in the middle of the root (say) and extending out to the approximate middle spanwise and fore and aft on a straight wing. On a forward swept wing, the locations of the spar at the root and at the end of the spar are going to be in way different spots along the chord. Different from straight wings and just hard for me to get my head around.

Understood, but I can't see there being a one piece straight spar on this - it will probably have one (or a set of) spars per wing, and those spars will be joined in the middle by some kind of angled joiner to allow the FS that will presumably be moulded into the form at manufacture. That means that the spars will be able to travel out along the wing at the same % chord point all the way as they would on a straight wing, with nothing poking out above or below the wing surface at the root.

The spars are one piece on the Excalibur and there are two, one fore, one aft. There are additional torsional spars in each wing panel. Its pretty much bullet proof

S.

Thanks for the info Stuart !

Now go to sleep your in Australia now

Daz

Can't wait to get it...love it!

Right around how much we're talking about, Stuart...