r/RCPlanes

I took my Saito FG-40 off my Fokker D8 I have not been flying. Should sound great! So far I've mounted the servos, glued the control surfaces on, mounted the engine, painted the wheel wells zinc chromate yellow, and started to figure out where the throttle servo will go. I'm really loving this size of warbird. Not too big, not too small. I also have the P-47 and it flies amazing.

For context: I ended up adding a tailboom aftet some considerations and feedbacks as an insurance for stable flight. It still ended up being tail heavy but by this point ive done a lot to the plane to make it work. I plan on either making a new one from scratch or modifying the the body for a single motor smaller flerken style plane.

Edit: by It didnt fly, I meant it wasnt a successful speedy flight in general.

Was nerve racking and exhilarating. Flying my Phoenix 2400. The wind was great, about 10 mph, not too gusty, plenty of lift. Hardly used the throttle at all. At one point I was worried about bleeding off my speed and height. Happy with my safe landing. My max flaps position is pretty aggressive and came in handy. I should of set up crow breaks too though, will do that for next time. Kept this flight short and counted it as a win, plane made it home in one piece. This was my second and last flight of the day. The first flight I clipped the only tree right in the middle of the slope and crash landed, depth perception was a little off, but the plane was fine. You can see Mt. Hood in the background, beautiful spot. So much fun.

I’m building a small scale (700mm wingspan) tailwheel aircraft and in order to get the best out of it, I want to increase the rigidity of the tail (horizontal and vertical stabilizers)

Any tips?

In an attempt to save weight, i utilized the use of elevons. This ended up making the air craft turn a little bit slower, but it made the planes super light and floaty

Hello, I am making my own plane, but I ran into this problem, the servos and the control surface are not aligned so when you put the push road it bends, be it the push road, the servo plastic or the horn, I have heard about guiding the push with a piece of thermofit but I do not know the way the rod should have.

So fun i bound to my jumper n bought 2

I got a balance charger and it comes with several different output chargers, but none of them are XT60. However, I have XT60 connectors (the yellow thing), to what extent is it a bad idea to cut off the ends of that alligator cable and solder them to the XT60 connector and use that to charge the battery?

Am I missing a part? This motor (sunnysky 2204) has a strange set of 2 sideways screws but I don't see any way to actually get it to connect to the propeller

Probably the bost cursed plane I have, the stock front end kept exploding due to the shitty motor mount which started vibrating after the second flight . I got sick of fixing this so I cut off the front end and 3d printed this plastic thing which I could screw the motor to. Added Some barbecue skeelers to stiffen the front as well. The piece of electrical tape on the prop also balances it for some reason. Has worked great so far. This plane has one purpose in my fleet, it serves as my super windy day flyer, it handles it very well and even if you crash who cares not like you can make it any uglier. Flies suprisingly well for how hideous it is it will still hover knife edge and all

So I was just testing this airplane after adding some new retracts, and upon initial deployment, the main year did not come down at all. It didn’t even move. So I retracted the gear again and put them back down and then all three finally came back down. My question is this a one time thing or should I look into replacing the retract sequencer computer?

Is this a good plane for someone who has already flown and mastered a training plane before?

I recently acquired a pylon racer and am trying to balance it. The CG is marked under the wings and I balanced planes before so I could not have foreseen the issue I am now running into (all top wings though).

The wing on this one is at the center of the fuselage, like an extra 300.

It is quite tail heavy, one 3S is not enough to fight that so I thought about having 2 3S in parallel.

It is tail heavy, until I reach a point where it rocks forward, and becomes fully nose heavy. There is no middle ground. It is either going fully up or fully down. I cannot get it to balance on the marked CG.

What am I doing wrong ?

https://www.fmshobby.com/products/fms-800mm-beaver-rtf-pnp?variant=50590485905686

$130 seems like good value for money, plus I already have a radio so I can get the PNP and invest a receiver and battery.

I'm leaning towards wanting a scale taildragger for a good plane to return to the hobby, and this seems like a perfect option. I've considered stuff from HH but their stuff is pretty expensive. This seems like something I could realistically take to a club and take off/land on the runway and practice patterns with.