Originally Posted by lucdus

yep ! so many flights !!!
I saw on internet @ RCGroup some Resin reinforcement / interesting but is that worth ??
Landing should be sliding on the fuse but for F5j you practice it is may be not compatible as you want to reach the target , not easy to combine both ...

It is normal that when you force certain things, you also have failures. That's how you improve, even if it costs. It was a piloting mistake, because I didn't come firmly to the landing, I tried to keep the glider in the air until it entered the stall, also due to the change in the direction of the wind.

The new fuselage is ready for the installation of electronics.

Little steps to move all electronics from old fuselage in this new.

Closer to the end. The wiring is identical to the previous version. It remains to identify the position of certain connectors from the servos, when I will put it under voltage.

First time, powered. Must change order of some connectors of servo, but no problems, all it's good. Next step, bending rods.

I have finished the third fuselage. Step by step in pictures, my method for bend the steel rods exactly. All operations are done with the station on and the receiver under voltage. I secured all the screws with CA or Loctite.

Now in the box, ready to go to flight field. As soon as weather will permit that.

bonjour Popad, all this sounds perfect !!!

for the radio, how was it to control the settings ? mainly flaps , are you well familiar with edge or openTX companion ?

Originally Posted by lucdus

for the radio, how was it to control the settings ? mainly flaps , are you well familiar with edge or openTX companion ?

For setings you can see post #139.

I use OpenTX with Jumper TX12 Plus, and Radiomaster TX12. I prefer to do the settings from the station, however when I move the models from one station to another I use "companion".

If you need more detail, please tell me, and I will post more pictures about that.

very fine, thanks, "i begin" to be familiar with openTX, i am studying one model set up for a BIXler on companion. Step by step. Hesitating to order or not a radiomaster TX .
Interesting .... would give lot of flexibility for flaps and telemetry for sure ...

Good luck for fuselage nb 3 ...

Today, test of the new fuselage. After some minor issues with elevator, resolved with my friend Nelu at field, I trimmed elevator correct, and launch from hand without motor. Long flight without touch the sticks. A second flight, same, long flight, too without touch the sticks, right, some time little up. Wonderful !

After that, two flights with motor, first 27 meter high, stop motor, come down in 58 seconds, perfect landing.

Second flight with motor 35.9 meter, come down in 1:40 minutes, with perfect landing.

My friend tell me that variant fly better then last one, crashed. I feel same .

With data from second flight, extract from GliderKeeper, I have computed sink rate after motor was stopped, and result is 0.3919 m/s.

0.3919 m/s = 1.285761 feet/s

"Modern DLGs regularly achieve dead-air sink rates of on the order of 1.3 ft/sec or probably better. This is at an airspeed in the vague ballpark of 5.5 m/s give or take a chunk. I expect similar performance, or even better, with somewhat larger planes." from this post.

I find now after my experiment about sink rate, information about that here1 ( I have some reserve in this case, sorry) and here2, which confirm my measurement.

Originally Posted by popad

With data from second flight, extract from GliderKeeper, I have computed sink rate after motor was stopped, and result is 0.3919 m/s.

Impressive .... congratulations

Originally Posted by lucdus

Impressive .... congratulations

Thank you, but it is not my merit, only partially. We have to thank the designer, those who prepare this kit, and of course Mr. Ryan Höllein for the distribution.

i agree, we are lucky !

7 November. Weather very nice, wind under 2.1 meter/second, 16 degrees C. Best flight of day 12:38 minutes, F5J altitude 146.

The best flights I had after the national championship until now (August, October, November) ...