Originally Posted by
N410DC
I am interested in adding flaps to my Big Stik 40 ARF. The plane is already assembled. I plan to add a separate servo for each flap. Has anyone tried this? If so, where did you mount the servos, and how did you cut/build mounting boxes for the servos? How long should the flaps be? If there is a build log out there, that would be ideal.
Thanks in advance!
I haven't done it on the smaller Stiks such as yours.
However on the larger Stiks, I find that setting the inner "flaps" as secondary ailerons works best.
Then if you use an 8 channel TX and set the programming up for a GLIDER instead of an airplane, you get the best of all worlds.
This gives you flaps, snap flaps, spoilerons, inboard ailerons, crow, etc. etc. etc.
I find that I have no need for flaps, except for snap flaps, for super tight loops ( plane length! ).
I use inboard ailerons the most, to improve roll rate and 3D. I use CROW a lot to bring the plane to a halt in the air, and to slow it down once on the ground.
Just a thought.