Hey Cam, congrats on your maiden. This is a fun plane to fly especially if you like to fly it scale. When there is no wind you can make your approaches by blipping the throttle and it floats right in. I have a video and will post it if I can ever figure it out.
Someone at the field suggested the solution you used for the front wires. It certainly would have been easier for me considering the mishaps I had since but some ideas just don't work for me and I think that one was because it wasn't scale. Duh ! The plane isn't scale to begin with>!!
My Eindecker is back on the work bench after a serious mishap. I lost it and it stalled about 8 feet off the ground and nosed in damaging the cowl and the starboard wing. Interestingly, The port wing was the one I built from new parts from SR and it is compleatly intact. After removine the covering I discovered some usefull info that may help those who build this plane.
1. When I got to the plane it looked pretty much intact except for a broken prop and bent cowl. The wings were still in place and the rigging was still attached on the upper pylon even with the unorthodox attachment setup I used.
2. The rigging attachment modifications were also mostly intact althought One of the wires had broken where it was crimped. I was amazed that after I removed the Covering I found the wing was almost compleatly distroyed. Although the carbor fiber spars were still intact I don't believe there was a single piece in the wing that wasn't damaged. This is not to imply that SR's design is flawed and I realize this is 1/4 scale and certainly not as resilient as a park flyer or 40 size trainer but It seems to me that the advantages of carbon fiber for spars is not completly without some minor drawbacks. Yes I know you are going to say " This is 1/4 scale, idiot, DON'T CRASH IT' but after looking at the damage from about 4 similar mishaps I'm seeing a pattern ( Yeah I know I can't fly
) were when the plane comes down and the wing tip impacts in any way the force of the impact gets tranfered all the way to the root rib and everthing along the the spar gives or breaks because the spar doesn't. Would a wooden spar simply break at some point and spare some damage to the rest of the wing ?
Interestingly enough I was mentioning to one of the guys at the field that I would like to use this plane to test wing warpping and now I will have that chance. I have already looked at Proctors scale drawings and I believe I will use the scale outline but keep the carbon fiber spars and shave some of the ribs aft of the rear spar so that they will warp easily. While I'm at it I may also add some undercamber to the whole wing.
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