Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Body in white first flight.

As I sat trying to come up with a trim scheme for the Cardinal I figured I could assemble it and get in a test flight to see if what I did deserved the extra effort of trim colors. I had sprayed the white base coat two days ago. I removed the power package from another plane and installed it in the Cardinal. The motor is an Arrowwind 2820/07, a Hubin FM-0c Tmer, a 40 amp E.S.C., an HRB 4s 3300 battery, an APC 11 x 5.5 prop, a 2 inch plastic spinner. The motor speed is 9000 rpm. I didn't get the lap times. The plane weighs 55 ounces with one ounce of tip weight. I set the flight time to the minimum, about 2 minutes. The plane is stable in level flight but needs more elevator or wider spacing at the handle for better corners. The balance came out within the c/g circle without any other weight added. I was concerned about that with what I did to the design. All in all the plane is worth the effort to paint trim colors, if I can think of a design. These assholes changed the format on the blog and there is no icon to ad a picture. After several hours I figured out how to get rid of the new crap and ad a picture. They are still assholes.

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