Natually i'm a pretty tight guy, and cannot put hundreds of pounds into an aircraft, especially because i'm only an intermediate pilot who crashes everything.
After i managed to put my pride and joy Radjet into the top of a 60ft tree
, snapped my turnigy micro x in half and broke the landing gear on my mSRx in more places than i can count, I decided to pull back the throttle and build planes out of stuff i have lying around and bits from crashed planes.
I have grown a fondness for Delta wing planes with elevon control, so yesterday my friend and i conspired to build this
A small delta wing made mainly out of some corrugated plastic I cut from a box.
Unfortunately i don't have very many build photos as I hadn't thought to post this, but i have one from quite early in the development process
My friend is pictured. Overall, including troubleshooting, but not the many repairs it needed, it took about 3.5 hours to build from scratch. Once built, this had a center of lift too far forwards (or cg too far backwards), so i cut the wings down and it is now flyable. The vertical stabiliser was also far too small, resulting in some spontaeous rolling. It didn't really work
Enter Mk2
I doubled the size of the vertical stabiliser, and added winglets to improve handling. this was a vast improvement
The powertrain is a micro e-flite 2500kv brushless motor with a six amp hobbyking esc. Thees are connected to a 460mah 2s nano tech lipo. I was not the one who soldered the system up, and i don;t have my tools to do it properly right now so I have to live with it. I broke and lost the stock prop (it had been glued on previously) and replaced it with a cut down quadcopter prop. currently the system doesn't really have enough power, so would it run a 3s battery?, i would appreciate a comment answering that. i cut two grooves into the fromt of the plane and pushed the mount inline, attaching it with hot glue and araldite.
In this photo you can also see the ORx R615x reciever. I will fit a smaller reciever when i can, but this was all i had.
For the control surfaces i used 9gram servos with homemade wire pushrods and control horns made out of a cd case superglued into place
Unfortunately, It didn't fly long enough to record a video, but i got about 30 seconds of airtime before it crashed down, mainly because my garden wasn't really big enough and the plane not powerful enough for a turn.
Stay tuned for a few more projects, including ressurecting my micro quad, rescuing my plane from a tree, and bringing my first trainer plane back to life
Peace out
Harry
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