FT 190% Punjet

At Erwin Middle School, the beginning of the school year brings new students to the hobby and it usually equates to new ideas.  The Punjet has been around a little over a year now and no student has ever thought of messing with the small squirrely beast until now. Jill, an 8th grade student, wanted to take on the Punjet with a little twist to give her a better chance at flight. So she took the PDF drawings of the aircraft and scaled it up to 190 percent.  We have been asked why 190? She kept enlarging the aricraft until the fuselage fit the FT firewall (Motor mount), it fit perfect at this scale.  Any bigger she would have had to make an internal piece to mount to the plane. Oh did I mention this was her first plane she ever built!

Being her first build, she had her basic issues, one gluing the wing upside down and having to redo it!

The wing issue didn't stop her, she went on to create a beatiful build.

She used the following electronics to outfit her plane;

1. Motor: https://store.flitetest.com/emax-rs-2205-2300kv-motor/
2. ESC: https://store.flitetest.com/blheli-series-30a-esc-xt60/  
3. Servos: https://store.flitetest.com/emax-es08a-ii-8-5g-servo/
4. Battery: https://store.flitetest.com/lumenier-2250mah-3s-35c-lipo-battery/
5. TX/RX: https://store.flitetest.com/spektrum-dxe-6-channel-transmitter/

We are using the new DXE TX/RX for this project, we are happy with the setup so far since getting the controllers from Flite Test for exceeding expectations of the FT STEM challenge. More to come on that!!!!

Throwing the plane was easy due to the fuselage extending below the wings.

Cool shot of the punjet in the air by 7th grader Sam using the Chroma.

It flew inverted perfectly.

Having lots of control at 100 percent expo, flying low was a breeze.

All smiles!

Thank you for reading, watching, and supporting our program!

Keep flying,

The MESArc Team

http://www.mesarc.club/

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