March 2020
With the whole covid-19 situation, I figured building a plane to fly in the house would be a good idea.
First Attemps
I built a light weight 22" nutball, it is possible to fly in the space I have, but not really fun.
Video taken March 22nd
Specs:
22" diameter
110g flying weight (i only had a heavy receiver spare (15g))
racerstar 1306 3100kv motor
3s 300mah GNB lipo
Favourite Littlebee 20a esc
dalprop 5x4 - GWS 7035 props
Lemon 6ch receiver
3.7g servos
I then tried another Nutball, but with lighter Electronics, this flew slower, but I had control issues due to my bad pushrod stays. I could have sorted this, but it was obvious that if it was going to be nice to fly inside, I had to go further.
Specs:
22" diameter
50g flying weight
skystar 1103 11000kv motor
1s 450mah GNB lipo (way too big, but all I had)
DYS 7a Bl-Heli S esc
HQprop 3020 prop
DasMicro DSM2 6ch receiver
HK5330 1.9g Ultra-Micro Servos
The next plane was a more traditional style plane, with a 900mm wingspan and 300mm wing cord, for roughly 2/3rd the wing loading of the superlight nutball. Unfortunately, this one had very little elevator or rudder authority, and because it couldn’t fly at high alpha, was actually slightly faster.
This was very demotivating, and I decided to give up on proper RC flight, and turn it into a control line plane. I was fairly sure this would work, but having never flown Control Line beofre, I didn’t really see the appeal and thought it wouldn’t be much fun.
I was very wrong.
It was great fun to fly! Unfortunately, because of it being designed for super slow RC flight, is wasn’t very well optimised for Control Line, so There wil without doubt be more planes to come.
Here are some photos of the build:
