A quick 1.5 hour build on this air frame (not including the electronics) . No foil shapes, just a few pieces of 50mm foam strapped together with duct tape and hot melt glue. More just to prove that I could get an unfoiled rectangle to fly with Temarai mounted on it. The point has been proven. I’ll go back to a foiled shape on the next build as the drag and performance loss is noticeable less than a dream to fly.
In this test sequence it is obvious that more ballast could be added to the nose to stop the extreme pitching. This was done and it worked, however the extra airspeed needed to carry the extra mass was not wanted at this point in time. Thus it was removed and the pitching persisted with.
Just tested the weight shifter at skenners. Flew perfectly … in a straight line. Flight weight 836g. Too much lift on these wings. Also the lift goes all the way to the tips rather than being laterally centralised. Thus the weight shift makes bugger all difference in this wing.Using 50mm thick foam sheets as wings is great as you don’t have to laminate them, but then they’re heavy, cause way more lift and require more power, torque, mass movement to drive rhem.
