raideron...
Congrats on a good 1/2 tank flight. With all the BS I hear about YS I'm a little surprsied they need fuel.
Concerning the post offfice...make them an offer. Tell them you'll take it out in stamps!!!!
Man if they keep going up it'll cost more to mail the plane than buy it.
The V2 profile seems like a nice plane. I've been thinking about a profile, but I just can't quite seem to muster up the steam to buy one. I've been looking at the OMP 65" YAK ARF. It would go with my........YS!?!?!?!?!? But I don't think I'm gonna get one. At least not yet. I would like to fly one though. I'll bet they're fun.
Can your V2 do an inverted "rising" flatspin? I'm guessing yes, but I'm curious.
Jack211....
I weigh everything. Can't help myself. At my elevation it is difficult to get a favorable power to weight ratio. So I build the lightest I can without a bunch of extra money and stuff. So I'm pretty cautious about what I put on my planes. Never use wheel pants, (yeah I fly with my pants off) never use a pilot, and I use a small NiMH battery 4.8v all in an effort to keep things light. One thing I don't skimp on is servos. I use metal gear, high torque in everything. This is a spot not worth the chance to go light. Might induce flutter or worse?!?!?! Anyways, one or two onuces is important to me. So the weight calculations are critcal. I like to see the UCD around 5.5 lbs and it is clearly able to meet that with just a little bit of thought.
Of course all that goes out the window if you're gonna run a HUGE engine like some of the guys (gjeffers)
Flew the Typhoon again today. That thing is depressing. I think I'm done with it and I'll just wait until I can just "do it".
Thanks
Bud