Most garbage planes you have flown.

[Burkeomatic]

I don't know if I can come up with 5, but I thought this would be fun as well, to go along with our other thread. 

FT Nanoflerkin. That plane is freaking garbage. It is weird to build and flies worse. Overly complicated and under performing, I have a kit if anyone wants it. 

FT Zero. It was also a pain to build, the 13th squadron one flies so much better and is much less complicated. 

I build both of the above planes from SBKs after I was an accomplished builder, so I knew it wasn't me. 

FT mini speedster. This thing looks a combo of cool and cute, it is ashame it is like trying to pilot a floating leave through the air. 

Mini nighfury, was a crap sandwich, bad design, it was destined to fail. 

ZOHDdart 250. You shouldn't have to go through tons of trial and error, guess and check, and a 4000 post long thread on RC groups to figure out how to get a PNP kit dialed in and flyable, but I guess you do. Now that the nose is comprised mainly of duct tape, I finally have it flying well, it ended up being thrust angle. Now that I know the problem and have it fixed, the only fuselage replacements I can find are 50 bucks... bullshit. A new plane is 80.... I don't think I will purchase from zohd ever again. 

Actually, I hold disdain for any pnp kit that you have to ''fix'' Shouldn't that have been done already? The airloader wasn't horrible before I modded it, but it sucks at flying fast, I mean it will if you want to draw 50A but geez, why make it suck at slow speed handling too? Once I mostly fixed the low speed handling, it is a fun plane to do low and slow fpv with. It still either needs a T tail or the boom moved to the top. But that is too much work, and it flies fine the way it is. I put a new flight controller in it, and it is a mighty fine gyro, which arguably makes it more stable than the dragon. 

Most 3d printed planes. The only ones I have flown that were worth a flip were 3d lab prints. Wasn't a fan of eclipsons, the model d was mildly acceptable, and some of the other ones I have found, the GASB One is ok, but 3D printing tech isn't quite there yet. When you wreck them, they are dead. This is the first thing that kind of made me question FT, they talked up eclipson, and I have build two of their planes, and I was impressed with neither. 

This was a good one though.

3dlabprint.com/shop/vl_pyorremyrsky/

[peanut]

I want to nominate the Punjet for a slot in the top 5. I tried and tried to make that plane work and was only able to make it fly once decently. You have to throw it overhand at about ninety miles an hour so it doesn’t torque roll and then as soon as it’s flying, the thing is so small, orientation issues come up FAST. So did the ground, usually.

[Mr NCT]

My nomination is the MM Corsair. Has to fly way too fast for being that small.

[Burkeomatic]

Sept 11, 2022 19:06:27 GMT Mr NCT said:

My nomination is the MM Corsair. Has to fly way too fast for being that small.

I low key started building one of those, never finished it, then put it straight in the trash.

Sept 11, 2022 17:19:32 GMT peanut said:

I want to nominate the Punjet for a slot in the top 5. I tried and tried to make that plane work and was only able to make it fly once decently. You have to throw it overhand at about ninety miles an hour so it doesn’t torque roll and then as soon as it’s flying, the thing is so small, orientation issues come up FAST. So did the ground, usually.

I always kind of wanted to build one of those to drop from one of my big planes. Looked cool in concept though.

Actually, none of the small quickish FT planes ever came to fruition for me. By the time I got my piloting skill back up to where I would want to build something like that, I realized I didn't really like tiny planes at all. I have one I tolerate, but it isn't DTFB.

[bwarz]

Sept 11, 2022 17:19:32 GMT peanut said:

I want to nominate the Punjet for a slot in the top 5. I tried and tried to make that plane work and was only able to make it fly once decently. You have to throw it overhand at about ninety miles an hour so it doesn’t torque roll and then as soon as it’s flying, the thing is so small, orientation issues come up FAST. So did the ground, usually.

Liking this wasn't enough- I had to toss in an LOL.  You hit it on the head, but it sounds like you had longer flight times than me and my son (max flight time here probably 5-8 seconds after what seemed like a million launches ).  We got a roaring good laugh out of it though, so it was totally worth it!