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Old 09-24-2003, 06:27 PM
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Default Flying wing conversion to micro flight

Hello to all you micro flyers!

I want to convert a flying wing toy glider to micro rc flight.

The specs are:

22 inch wingspan (aprox)
31g (1.1 oz) flying weight (with factory installed putty ballasts under black labels)
Wing thickness at leading edge 3/4"

See pics.

Can anyone give me some guidelines on what motor/battery/servo/receiver/prop setup you would use? I've never converted anything this small. I usually use GWS "A" motors with a 280 7-cell pack (on my lady-bug size plane), but somehow this seems like a different proposition.

Anyone have any ideas?

Roger
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