Gliders > Slope Soaring
I might just have to get one of these
Happy Days:
Thanks for the advise Jumbo :clap: but yes, I had already tried that. And yes, you are right about Futaba gear needing to have the throttle operation reversed for most ESC’s to work properly.
I tried all the tricks of the trade I knew but it didn’t work so it’s now on it’s way back to the retailer who has agreed to exchange it. ( For one that works,……hopefully! :lol: )
Being philosophical for a moment; I suppose one has to expect the odd piece of mass produced electronic gear to ‘slip through the net.’
I susspect that the Chinese haven't got quite as good quality control systems set up yet as some of their Asian counterparts. :roll:
L. Keith
stephen.shannon:
Glad you found it now and not on the 25th.....
I've had two dud esc from hobbyking and giantshark, so it does happen. In fairness to hobby king their faulty esc blew my ex and they replaced both free of charge.
Happy Days:
And here we are exactly one month after the non working ESC was returned to England, I’ve received a replacement one. :clap:
Just connected it up, and it works. How about that! The curious thing is the retailer only took 24hours to take the money from my debit card. :?:
Now the model has to be put back into its box so herself can wrap it up and put it under the xmas tree. :!:
(What strange ceremonies we humans go through) :roll:
L. Keith
Fred:
That is a strange thing to do!
Fly it, pretend it crashed, cry (pretend crying also, not your real man cry).
With enough pitty, you might get another one. BAM! 2 gliders!
This plan might work! :lol:
Happy Days:
So, on Sunday this new member of the Keithy’s squadron had it’s first flight. Big Keith came along on a particularly bitter winters afternoon to witness the inaugural flight and give marks out of 10 for technical ability and artistic merit.
The first thing I noticed with this model is that getting the aileron and flap servo leads connected and then ‘tucked away’ inside the fuselage required very nimble fingers. Knowing that the temperature at Nine Stones was likely to be in the sub zero range I fully assembled the Radian at home and managed to fit it in the car for transportation to Big L. (I’m glad I did)
Arriving on the North slope around 11am the first thing that strick me was the sheer number of parked cars. And this on a day when there was nothing but hard frost on the grass. It turned out that there was some kind of sponsored walk from the car park up to the top of the mountain and back. The cars were parked everywhere. Some were double parked onto the road causing a small amount of havoc for traffic trying to pass though. But enough of such trivia,…….what of the flying?
Well, as Big Keith and I stood on the top of the slope, near the car park, we could barely feel any air passing our faces. Maybe there was just the faintest breath of a slight wind, but only for a moment. Armed with a very old 3S Li-Po of 1200mAh (1200 when it was new anyway) capacity the model gently lifted out of my hand with about 30% throttle spinning the prop.
Having never had a Hybrid glider (power glider) before I was interested to see what she could do.
With no flaps deployed and on full throttle she stuck her nose up into the air and simply climbed at about 45 degrees. At aprox one hundred feet higher than the top of the slope I cut the motor. To our surprise she managed to find a little bit of ridge lift and floated around. Out of the lift she descended slowly but with 20 degrees of flap she reduced her decent appreciably. At 45 degrees of flap she just kept stalling, diving, and then levelling out for a moment before stalling again ect.
Aerobatics? None, absolutely none whatsoever. After a very long and steep dive she just, and only just, managed a loop although she pretty much ‘fell out’ of it at the top. I barely managed to get 180 degrees of roll out of her, let alone 360 degrees. She lost a lot of height while inverted. Not really surprising with a flat bottomed polyhedral wing I suppose.
Overall she is a very gentle and sure footed model with no vices’ that I could detect. Landings were simple, slow and again I use the word ‘gentle.’ All in all it was a very relaxing flight or two in a rather less than relaxing temperature. She will do well for me on those warm becalmed summer days where I can go hunting for possible lift of either the ridge or thermal variety, without the need for that “walk of shame” to recover her. And if I find I don’t need the thrust from the prop, I’ll simply remove the Li-Po and the prop blades and return her to her purist glider state.
She’s certainly worth the 120 quid I paid for her with only a rx and battery needing to be supplied by myself.
Yes, it was a good afternoon on the slope.
Little Keith
ps, sorry there are no picies, the cameraman recond it was too cold to take p[ictures. (He's such a pussy!)
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