To the FliteTest Community;
We have another video posted of Colby taking on the F-22 Raptor, a designed created by the rcFoam Fighters. He did a great job and thought we would share.
As always, thanks for supporting the MESArcFF Team.
Jake Marshall
MESArcFF Advisor/Director
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Right on, that would be awesome if you could make it happen. I started with 3 kids interested and all I had was an old 72mhz controller, 2 servos, an esc, and a battery. But you know what, we made it work, the kids bought in and they did whatever they could to make this thing happen after school. 4 years later, we have 50 students in the program, 120 students had signed up, I do all picks by lottery. With their buy in made me go out and do more, create a website, get some local hobby retailers involved (all construction costs comes from them) and setting up a YouTube channel for people all over the world to get involved as well as give these kids something that no other kids have at our school. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger and better for the kids.
Jake if you believe in it and show them that, they will follow.
Good luck, let me know if you need any help!
Jake
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I've made a slightly different version of it as my first scratch build. The design by TomHe has elevons only (with simple thrust vectoring) and a profile nose.
It's still my favorite to this day.
If setting the throws on the DX5 is not doable, you don't have to make your control surfaces smaller, just put your control rods in a hole closer to the servo on the servo arm. Later, when you are getting comfortable with it, you can step it up again :)
I like being able to do loops with a radius of barely a meter when the mood takes me
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You know I totally forgot about that, thank you for the reminder. I have a student right now needing to do the same thing, so before I tell him to trim down his control surfaces, he had better adjust the connection on his horns.
Thank you so much and the support,
Jake
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I'm new to the hobby as wellm started making foamies a few months ago, there's just so many little things that are all affecting each other you sometimes miss the obvious :)
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