Here is the info from Hans Kahlert
Frank,
Glad you liked the video.
Yeah, my buddy flying it is a maniac on the sticks. Alex Fredrickson, he could not just fly it the way it was intended to….diving for airspeed and then trying to loop it until the cone fell off... shows my CG was good as the pitch over was uneventful When we flew it during the day the glide performance was increased by 3-4x duration.
had that been the stratodart and the cone came off…it would have been the stealth/lawndart, cause that battery is inside the cone! the Daedulus had the lipo by the servos but it amazingly held on. I think I will place a small piece of tape on there to increase the friction fit.
The parts to do your own version are:
Light strips. I cut up bare servo lead wire to make the jumpers
https://www.ebay.com/itm/LED-Strip-...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Voltage reg: straight 3s into the LEDs, split with a Y into the VReg, out of the VReg at 5V for the rx. (these are insanely small! And adjustable!! order these 4 weeks in advance they come slow boat)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supper-min...V-5V-16V-CA-/141976890378?hash=item210e7b6c0a
Smallest battery my hobby shop carried. 5 Flights per charge with the LED’s as I had them.
https://www.motionrc.com/products/b...V40q3FOjZJojp6r5afOVCPdLXnl0WoJRoC4WgQAvD_BwE
Laminate: this went on with a covering iron. Light as air and rice paper thin. It significantly increased the ridgidity of the wing on the stratodart comapred to bare foam I left on the daedelus. Not sure it was truly necessary though.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/School-Sma...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649
Should you build your own, I positioned the LED’s on the topside of the wing, with the diodes firing down to take advantage of the glow in the foam as seen from below. Of course it is ridiculously visible form the topside as well during ascent. Leaving the adhesive backing on the light strip I simply heavily ran my finger over the back of the light strip creating indentations in the foam for the diodes. Blenderm tape (supplied by you-thanks!) is the perfect width to secure it the full length if you leave it bare foam as I didi on the Daedelus OR you full length (as I did) or spot tape it maybe and then laminate over it as on the stratodart. Everyhitng went below the laminate including the power jumpers. I laid it on the angle of the wing so the seams overlapped inside the body tube.
One note…on both rockets the lighting in the vicinity of the tail, I folded over 3 diodes onto themselves to also fire to the topside of the wing. These light up the tail on each side as you can see especially nicely on the V of the Daedelus. Works on the Dart as well.
He did say that for night flying, more is not necessarily better, His first RC plane was way to bright and blew out your night vision if you looked at it on the ground, it was a 2 man job and you couldn’t look until it was airborne because of the bounced light on the ground. Anything below 30 feet and there was a light ball on the grass. It was grossly overweight with the 2 @ 2s 5,000mah packs (yep, it needed all that for Power, duration, and CG) and the Castle BEC Pro it took to fly it. Thankfully I grossly overpowered it with a Power60 after the stock electronics puked on the first flight, it would almost climb vertical. The bottoms of the wings had RGB LED’s with lighting controllers and it was an epileptics nightmare as I toggled through the various flashy color patterns. Talk about an attention grabber though. It was ridiculous. I think your gliders with simple light strips are absolutely perfect night flyers!
