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Old 06-28-2007 | 03:27 PM
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Default RE: Mini Supersportster

Like he said.

Consider these to be seperate projects.

e.g.

- Learn to fly
- Build the Mini Super Sportster and fly it ( or have someone else fly it )
- Make the morphing wings
- Test fly with the new wings.

We had a University group come out to our field with a project.

While they had great engineering theory behind them, it was eminiently clear that no one in the group had ever flown an RC plane, let alone understood fairly basic stuff.

Their airplane was taken up by an experienced pilot who found it extremely tail heavy, and over loaded and under powered. It crashed on the first flight almost immediately.

The group was ESTATIC ( ?!?!?!?! ) that it even flew!

The thing is that anyone who had completed basic flight instruction at our club would have immediately known what was wrong with the plane and could have indicated the needed changes.