ORIGINAL: SHARADEDGE540
Dear Jon,
After going through your post posted two years back, I have so many questions to ask you. A few of them are as under:
1. What is the elevator mechanism you used in your airplane?
2. Can I go for two servo configuration on the tail?
3. Are the control horns MK?
4. Does this plane holds on to good knife edges?
5. What are bad habits of this airplane?
6. What would you like to suggest me as a tip as you have build and flown this airplanes yourself?
I am getting late for a meeting now otherwise there is a long list of questions lying for you.
Thanks anyway
Hi, I'm glad you ask :-)
1. I used the MK dual elevator coupler and a pushrod inside the fuse, servo mounted in the front of the fuse.
2. You can probably fit two servos in the rear fuselage. It is pretty narrow but it could work.
3. Yes but no horns are included, you have to buy separately.
4. It flies knife-edge with virtually no rudder. It pulls a little to the belly with rudder (if you want to fly a knife-edge loop)
5. No bad habits. All mistakes it does in the air is the fault of the pilot, not the plane.
6. Check the wood and maybe replace some soft wood with a little harder balsa. Some wood is very light and although the plane is strong enough it is very easy to make dents in the plane during transport. The stabilizer had very soft wood and the elevators and ailerons are extremely light and easy to damage. But if you glass the fuse and stabilizer it's not really a problem.