Rubber
Powered Cabin Cruiser
Wanted
a fun cabin cruiser as a way to experiment
with homemade folding props. So far this is what
I have
as a test carcass. First flight had
too much incidence in the elevator. During filghts I thought it was just
tail heavy and kept adding clay to the nose. It
finally mushed down to a level flight
but I knew something was weird. At home I took a flexible straight edge and
confirmed my elevator was not in line with the
thrust line, so I re-set it. I boxed in
the nose with sheet balsa because I figured I needed nose weight. I was right,
After changing the incidence and sheeting the nose, it is much easier to
trim and NO extra nose weight is needed (probably
saved .25 oz of flying weight).
Total weight was 2.25 oz and now is just 2 oz. Next is to build a few folders
and see what the big deal is with carving a prop. |