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ORIGINAL: Fisher
A slow stick is a better learners platform than a SO but it would work fine if you have plenty of room to work with. The SO is a bank and yank flyer so if you like video games it may be easier to fly than the slow stick. Try out the two on FMS if you have not already done so.

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ORIGINAL: critterhunter

Remember that any newbie to RC can easily put some dihedral in the wing via Extreme tape and that'll help ease them into flying planes. When you're more experience just peal off the tape and let the wing flatten out. Even without dihedral I don't think this plan would make a bad first one to learn on, though. The fuse hanging below the wing acts as a weight to help self correct the plane a bit, though not as good as putting dihedral in the wing. Just lift the wing tips a half to one inch or so and you should be good.

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ORIGINAL: LlamaFragments

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ORIGINAL: critterhunter

Remember that any newbie to RC can easily put some dihedral in the wing via Extreme tape and that'll help ease them into flying planes. When you're more experience just peal off the tape and let the wing flatten out. Even without dihedral I don't think this plan would make a bad first one to learn on, though. The fuse hanging below the wing acts as a weight to help self correct the plane a bit, though not as good as putting dihedral in the wing. Just lift the wing tips a half to one inch or so and you should be good.

As long as you had a huge field with no angry tennis players I vote that this is a great plane to learn on.

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ORIGINAL: critterhunter

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ORIGINAL: saucerguy

That jet reminds me. I posted a few threads on fastest jet designs and learned a few things. For instance, subsonic performance you'll want a blunt, or bulb nose on it just as they have in the cruize missle, supersonic it will need to be pointed. The more I got into it, the more I realized, the fastest jet would not be a jet at all, it's a missle, yet, keeping it jet like, the sr71 would be the best direction to go in this area, which is similar to the original design here.

The 12 series motor did pretty well, it did best in my Microjet, WOT, it was at the end of a rather huge field I fly at in the blink of an eye. With the So. between the drag from the booms and the shape of the wings, it topped out slower then I expected, even with that power system I was using, but much too fast for a new pilot to handle, which means, if this is your first aileron trainer guys, stick to the old gear if you have any on hand and build as light as possible.

Here is the red So. with the swept back wings I showed a photo of befreo using it:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=bsU_YnE5t-g

What size prop are you using on the 12T? Like I said, on my Stryker an APC E 8x6 gives it unlimited V and crazy speed, but it's red lining the motor at close to 30 amps.

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ORIGINAL: Fisher

Calvino,


There is no rudder on the SO if that is what you are asking? A&E is how the plane is controlled.

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ORIGINAL: LlamaFragments

I had an interesting experience flying yesterday. I took it out to a local park (without tennis courts ) to fly, and there was a baseball game going on in the nearby field. A whole ton of kids came to watch me fly, and even though it was too windy to keep flying and I was only in the air for a total of ~5 minutes. They were thoroughly interested. I had read a thread on RCGroups that was about how scratchbuilders are on the decline and less and less people are making their own planes, going towards RTFs and ARFs. These kids were extremely enthusiastic in pulling their parent's legs saying "I want to build an airplane too!" wether they actually would end up building one or not. One of the parents asked where I got the plans and stuff. I really don't think that scratchbuilding is a dying art.