I have been watching some of the Team Black Sheep videos on you tube which got me thinking about flying wings. Then I had a look around the net and was surprised to find out just how much they cost. So I thought why not build one out of depron. For a night or two, I hacked away at some depron and thrashed out my own design. Instead of using carbon rod for the spars I made ply one's cos I had read somewhere that carbon in your flying wing is no good if you want to go fpv.
Any way finished building it and a couple of days later I had my first flight.
I was over the moon cos it flew beautifully until disaster struck. The wing tips decided they felt lonely and decided they wanted to hug each other.
The wing was reduced to confetti in an instant.
Post crash thoughts was that I didn't use strong enough spars. There might have been problem with the rear spar because it looked quite a clean break where as the other front spar had splintered well.
Any way I went back to the drawing board and built a stronger wing plus I blinged it up a little with some LEDs. Once this weather gets better ill report back on how it flies.
Keith
Ps at 1m 11s that sound is not me , honest 😃
Here's a link to the crash http://youtu.be/5epSCAJJgaM
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Kind regards
Keith
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