ORIGINAL: Jack211
My question is how do you QUIET the damned thing? The resonance off the UCD's monokote wing sounds like someone beating it with a cat o' nine tails. All of my birds have unique sounds in the air: the Dart whistles, the Uproar and Big Stik whisper, and the Twists sometimes reverberate almost as badly as the UCD 60, but NONE of them is as noisy as the UCD. [I've put heat on the wing to tighten the monokote, no help. And it is NOT a problem of vibrating control surfaces--it happens on the table, where I can see it. The space between the ailerons and the wing is the thickness of one sheet of paper.]
Jack
Hi Jack, Mine sounds like a snare drum too. I think it is because the the ribs in the wing are spaced so far apart that there is a lot of surface area to vibrate. Short of adding more ribs to take up some space, I don't know if anything can be done to fix it.