MaxQ
Tripoli 2747
I had some time and a windless day to do some hand launches of this thing.
When I put this together I was just guessing at the wing size (I upsized it) and the CG location.
I taped 14 grams of lead to the nose to get the glide CG where I thought it needed to be and set all control surfaces to neutral to see what would happen...
The first couple of tosses in the backyard from shoulder height had some stall tendencies and after some fooling around with it, it had a noticeable nose down glide (dorked it in a couple of times) and then some left roll. Throwing these things w/o inducing some bad tendencies takes practice.
I added a little right "elevon/aileron" and it took the left roll out.
Then I put some pronounced up elevon in both of the elevons on the wing and took it to a hill behind my house.
It survived....
I got some flat glides with a slight right turn.
Kept tossing it until the breeze picked up and it rolled upside down on one landing...tearing the monokote on the right wing root.
Before I go to the next phase...I will need to put lead in the internal pop pod and see how far I can get the CG for a vertical launch...
If I can get it to a launch pad I'll see what a vertical launch will do to it.
When I put this together I was just guessing at the wing size (I upsized it) and the CG location.
I taped 14 grams of lead to the nose to get the glide CG where I thought it needed to be and set all control surfaces to neutral to see what would happen...
The first couple of tosses in the backyard from shoulder height had some stall tendencies and after some fooling around with it, it had a noticeable nose down glide (dorked it in a couple of times) and then some left roll. Throwing these things w/o inducing some bad tendencies takes practice.
I added a little right "elevon/aileron" and it took the left roll out.
Then I put some pronounced up elevon in both of the elevons on the wing and took it to a hill behind my house.
It survived....
I got some flat glides with a slight right turn.
Kept tossing it until the breeze picked up and it rolled upside down on one landing...tearing the monokote on the right wing root.
Before I go to the next phase...I will need to put lead in the internal pop pod and see how far I can get the CG for a vertical launch...
If I can get it to a launch pad I'll see what a vertical launch will do to it.
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