FT Flyer 2.0 with ailerons

 I would like to begin by saying I am a complete RC/articles noob.  I have built and flown the swappable 3-pack, but I mainly like the flyer.  Everyone who has seen me "fly" has asked me to do a barrel roll, and I, being not quite ready for the delta, have to crush their dreams by saying "This plane can't do that," or "I don't know how," or "I don't have any ailerons."  That gave me an idea.  I talked to my dad about my crazy thought.  We drew it out, designed, and redesigned.  The result was this:

The ailerons took only 30 minutes to an hour to build seeing as they are so simple in design.  Though easy to do, a few issues still arose.  Our first idea was to put the servo on the other side of the rudder and elevator servos, but there was most likely going to be servo arms bumping into each other and control rods messily overlapping.  the servo being furter away from the control surface also set the control rods more perpendicular to the ailerons.

The control horns were from this article

Measurements:

The aileron starts 4 1/4" away from the wingtip, and goes on for 7", where it ends 11 1/4" from the wingtip.  From the paper hinge to the trailing edge of the aileron, we measure 1 1/2".  The control horn is located 2" from the side of the aileron nearest the fuselage along the trailing edge.  The rudder and elevator servos are in the same location as they are in the speed build kit, and the aileron servo sits in the foam just ahead of the others, facing the nose.

First Flight:

Although I did not catch its maiden on tape, the FT Flyer 2.0 flew pretty well.  The aircraft did exactly what I wanted it to do - rolls.  While it may do these basic maneuvers, I probably would have wanted to test fly a plane that was made to have ailerons so that I could understand the responsiveness that it should have.

Just for Fun:

Recently, we had some snow down in north Alabama, and, since this is a very rare oppurtunity down south, I decided to build the skis from Flite Test's snowball conversion kit for the Flyer 2.0.  This was the result.

I hope you enjoyed reading my first article, and mabye even bulit one yourself.  Plese feel free to ask questions in the comments if I left anything out.  Thanks for reading!