I have built about 6 Spitfires out of Coreflute and this time I made one with a little extra :-)
I was looking to build a Spitfire that could fly slow, so instead of tapering the wings, I continued the full width to the wing tips, once complete it looked that good I thought I should add another.
I pulled the top wing forward about 25mm (1") and offset the wings by a bit more than half the width of the wing. As this is what I could find from my google search on full size Bi-Plane design.
Anyway, it flys at about walking speed and makes me laugh each time I fly it.
Hope you like it.
This is the single wing version and is now my favorite plane to fly. It flys perfect, slow or fast and on rails.
I would highly recommend building a square wing version of the FT Spitfire it is the best plane I have built so far and just a blast to fly.
As with all the FT Spitfire's I have built, I have made the fusulage slightly narrower and not bothered with the canopy. (Im into flying and building, not the cosmetics) and no rudder.
Thanks for looking and thanks FT for keeping me motivated and constantly building plane after plane.
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I don’t know a lot about aerodynamics but I wanted more wing area in an effort to fly slower. The single wing version is great. I spent most of the weekend just buzzing around my local park at about 6 – 8 ft. off the ground, great fun easy to fly plane.
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