Stick 40 Demonstration Video
I have some pictures of the construction of this aircraft, but currently I'm not ready to go look for them. I bought and built this model so that I had something easy to fly, and something that I could use up some of my older parts. My first R/C airplane engine, and my oldest radio system. This plane did not behave like I was hoping. In the air it was an easy model to fly. It also landed easy. However it was a hard plane to take off with. I ended up crashing it twice. The first time I was able to repair it. The second time, I felt it was too damaged and not worth my time and energy. Here is a flight video.
Wonderful video!
I thought that taking off was always a lot easier than landing (that's what I experienced with PC flight simulators).
Also that you needed an asphalt runaway (like a road) to get the necessary speed to take off.
But you do it from your grass-covered backyard lawn.
Congratulations on the awesome adventures of building and flying your RC airplanes!
@tryingtosurvive2024
@HealingTalk Thanks! The club that I learned at, only had a grass runway. I prefer grass because it is more forgiving when you make a mistake. Most of my planes take off just fine from grass, but that one is particularly a bad design.
I see. Thank you for your explanation!
@tryingtosurvive2024
@HealingTalk A taildragger plane usually torques to the left, so you apply a little right rudder to make them go straight. That one would torques to the right, and then to the left, and then to the right again. I never could get it under control, cause it did whatever it wanted.
How weird! In all cases the propellers were spinning to the right, I guess, in the same direction of rotation.
@tryingtosurvive2024
@HealingTalk The instructions tell you to *** the engine. All model airplanes have the engine cocked a little.
Please read this article:
Why RC planes have down and right engine thrust
Wow! I didn't know that!
Fine-tuning the construction of an RC plane seems pretty subtle and complex.
@tryingtosurvive2024
@HealingTalk Typically my planes came out good enough to have reliable fun with. That one was iffy. I'm not good at fine tuning the airplanes. If they don't come out right for me, they don't come out right. Some people will fly them in different ways, and adjust things, to make them fly perfectly in all positions. Once again, I'm not that good at it.