cwick1989

These are my spads! my dogfighters fuse is being rebuilt outta coro! if the wind dies down tomorrow im gonna try and maiden my stick!

draftman1

cool planes! good luck on the maiden! I see the sickle, very nice, I havnt tried the sickle, Im a draco 2 man

cwick1989

My sickle I only flew it twice did everything as the plans said but it flew a lil to tail heavy.. the plans were probly made with a lil bit heavier engine than the lil LA 25 i had on it... I parted with the sickle last week but im probly gonna build another one here pretty soon

NvMike

Is the plan for the coro stick posted somewhere? I built one with flat foam, .40LA OS, 3.5 pounds and it flies but would like to do another with coro.
Is your fuselage 2x2 PVC?
Thanks

cwick1989

Its got one 6 inch gutter former and one thats an inch... the plans are on spadtothebone.com under the stick series and it looks exactly like the real thing! and doesnt weigh much more either!!!! and theres also a video of a guy building one on youtube somewhere

draftman1

hey NVMike, how have you been? hey mike. there is this crazy guy on youtube doing build videos. I think his name on youtube is draftman3 or something like that. check it out! its really helping people out, well he thinks it is but I wont tell him its not! he he he

cwick1989

I would like to see a draco build video!

NvMike

Draftman1
I am ok, have had good luck with building this summer, everything I built flew, but I have to have a friend fly them for me. I started with a plan on SPAD to the bone, an aluminum rail job, and made some changes, one used a Balsa wing from a wrecked KAOS. I tried a coro biwing and it flew but not well, my thrust line was to low, then did a KF wing design with 4 mil coro, It also flew.
Last project was a duplicate of my friend's Ultra Stick, used all flat foam and it worked also.

I am done will fuel planes for now, will head to Yuma AZ and my space in RV is very limited, I will so some small electric stuff while there. I will get back to fuel and coro next summer.
I will not have a computer for 5 months and will miss watching the posting on this board.
I will check out the by that other draftman.
Have a great winter
NvMike

NvMike

Thanks cwick1989, I checked it out and that is just what I need for next summer build.

NvMike

draftman1

have a great trip and get some foamys going! some of the spadworld.net guys have been building f-22's and stuff, really cool!

draftman1

I did a draco build video (draftman3)

check it out, let me know what you think about it

now I do have to say, I do mine a little different than on the plans. I make the tail different

I call it, Draco II

cwick1989

Man that tape looks to easy! what is it? whered you get it? and how does it hold up?

draftman1

it is an acrylic foam tape, its made by 3m, 3/8" wide. it is very expensive. It is used to hold trim peices on the exterior of a car. I get mine at a auto body and paint supply place. once its stuck, its very hard to remove it

I normaly dont use it, due to the expence and it adds a little more wieght. I used it in the video to show how fast a draco can be built. I normaly use med CA and flash the coro

cwick1989

I normally use the med CA too but that just looked to easy!

NvMike

Draftman, I check out the crazy guy's videos. He did a great job!

draftman1

I will tell him Thanks. thank you Mike! I hope you enjoyed them, I started the spadet build tonight. . It will be aimed at the begininer spad builder. alot more in depth and more things explained with options

cwick1989

Ive built more than one spad but those build videos really did help me learn a few tecniques! you can read about em all day but actually watching someone who knows what theyre doin makes a big diffence!