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Post by Burkeomatic on May 30, 2022 2:29:24 GMT
Maybe I jumped the gun ordering my Airloader to replace my dragon. I just stumbled across this guy today, $100 for the kit. Only one review on it so far from a big reviewer, and it doesn't appear he has flown it yet. It was rag the nuts off, and he ordered it in lieu of the Dragon since it is considerably cheaper, apparently the foam (EPP) is of pretty good quality, and it's dimensions are similar to the dragon. It looks like the T tail dragon and albabird had a baby.  On the surface, it looks like it has potential, but no one has reviewed it yet. I am seriously considering taking the plunge on it, even though I really, really don't need to. Runs off 220x-250x motors too, so good and cheap power set ups available. www.aliexpress.com/item/2251832660943423.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.0.0.21ef18027yCKN5To be honest, even though I got a screaming deal on it, and that is pretty much the only reason I bought it, I kind of regret getting the X-UAV clouds, not because I think it is going to fly bad, it is just complete overkill for what I need and how I fly. It has the capability to run a waypoint mission around my city for petes sake. I plan to maiden it with a 4S 5000mah but it can probably take about 3 or 4 of those batteries. Although, if it is a big teddy bear, I might just keep it, even though it is overkill. I am starting to think these mini airliners are overkill for LRFPV, and you want something cheap, so if you lose it, it is not the end of the world. |
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Post by Gabe on May 30, 2022 2:37:37 GMT
This looks like a great candidate for my dtf nightflyer thing I wanna build
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Post by Burkeomatic on May 30, 2022 2:59:55 GMT
This looks like a great candidate for my dtf nightflyer thing I wanna build I bet if you built a nightfury in white that would work well. Guess then it would be the light fury though. By the way, those little LED strips draw a buttload of current. I stuck some on my daughters trainer, and the ESC was getting warm sitting still and I couldn't figure out why, then I unplugged the LED strips and it was fine. Looks like they need a separate BEC or power source. But if you want to take a gamble, go for it. I have it pulled up in a tab, and every so often my finger hovers over the buy it now button. This is my daughters plane BTW. www.crashtesthobby.com/albatross-46.html |
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Post by Burkeomatic on Oct 22, 2022 1:25:27 GMT
By the way this never worked out. The ali seller scurved out on me.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Nov 12, 2022 19:33:00 GMT
This might be back on. They are back down to 100 again for the kit. I went for it, let's see if it shows up.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Dec 1, 2022 15:44:57 GMT
 Got it all done. Tried some fiberglassing techniques and it worked out pretty well. This plane ended up being EPO and not EPP which was a bummer, but it is all good. |
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Post by ratcheeroo on Dec 5, 2022 15:27:23 GMT
Got it all done. Tried some fiberglassing techniques and it worked out pretty well. This plane ended up being EPO and not EPP which was a bummer, but it is all good. Nice looking plane. You have got a good little collection going on. |
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Post by Burkeomatic on Dec 5, 2022 18:39:05 GMT
Got it all done. Tried some fiberglassing techniques and it worked out pretty well. This plane ended up being EPO and not EPP which was a bummer, but it is all good. Nice looking plane. You have got a good little collection going on. Thanks, not sure this one is going to stick around. But we shall see. May end up in the attic. It can carry more stuff, but has smaller and weaker wings than the dragon. Time will tell. |
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Post by Burkeomatic on Dec 23, 2022 5:50:08 GMT
Ok, I finally got this thing in the air today, I learned a few things, and didn't learn some others.
The reason for this is that I maidened it in 25mph winds gusting to nearly 40mph.
Well, I had my reasons, I had been out of town for some family stuff, and hadn't flown since the last time I updated this probably, and I theoretically won't be able to fly for a while more, so today was my only shot. I wanted to get the Dart 250 2.0 in the air, but obviously it probably wouldn't survive the wind, and the quad I built probably wouldn't either, so I sent this. I didn't really care if I lost this one. I bought it as an experiment, and if I lost it, I could just buy another plane.
So, what I learned...
This thing is tougher.... err... more tough than I thought. I was worried since the wing only had one carbon spar, and not 2 like the RDV2. Well it got tossed around in the wind pretty heavily and it took it like a champ.
It has plenty of power, I am not surprised by this. Those cheapie value hobby 2212/1400kv motors with 7056 or 7x6 props back a ton of punch for not a of money.
What I didn't learn....
I can't tell how stable or efficient it was. It looks like it should be decently efficient, if I can cruise about 35-40 percent like I can in most of my ships, it should only draw around 7-8 amps as far as I can tell. I didn't do any extreme maneuvers, or stick it in manual mode because, well, you can see why. Here is the short little video.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Dec 28, 2022 0:07:29 GMT
I got it in the air today, gusts only 15mph today, so pretty easy flying.
My actual impressions.
For whatever reason, this thing is actually pretty efficient. It isn't the slipperiest thing in the world, but the 7 dollar motors that are probably underpropped do a good job. It cruises at 7.4 amps at 40 percent throttle. That gets you cruising at the 65-70kmh mark. Not bad. 80kmh takes about 9 amps.
It is pretty dang stable, but not acrobatic. I still have to get manual mode dialed in, but I felt it out. I was loaded kind of front heavy I think on the maiden, but it does rolls and loops ok, but nothing special, kind of like the airloader, however unlike the airloader, it flies very, very slow, and is a fantastic slow flier. It is a little wobbly on the yaw axis if it gets smacked by wind, and the FC on it does not stabilize yaw. The rudder in general isn't that effective anyways.
Stall test - It will eventually drop a wing if you really, really, really try to stall it. Stall speed was 14kmh into the wind and 30kmh with a tail wind. This is throttle zero, max up elevator. I don't really see anyone accidentally stalling this unless they are trying or have never flown a plane before lol. It will let you know first, it will drop the nose, but if you keep agitating it, it will drop a tip. Easy recovery though if you are high enough, no death spirals or unrecoverable spins.
Speed - It doesn't scorch the earth, but it is no slouch. Into the wind max speed was 110kmh, and with a tail wind it was around 125 kmh flat out. It isn't pulling a ton of current either. You could easily do some more prop with these motors, perhaps some 7x7s. I rarely fly that fast anyways.
Overall, I like it. I was flying on a 4s 5000mah today, not charged all the way, and flew about 30 minutes or so, doing all kinds of testing. It has room for way, way more. It balances out with the 8000mah battery I have, which I will fly with next time, or you could probably go all the way up to a 4s4p in it. I think a 4s3p molicel p42 pack would be perfection with this thing.
I still haven't loaded an HD cam in it yet, I will probably design/print something to mount a HD cam in the front, it has the nose area for it. It has an allocation on the canopy for that, but when you have a big, blunt nose like this, you can easily jam one in the nose.
If you can find one of these under 100 bucks, don't mind reinforcing the tail feathers and some other things, I would say pick one up, I actually rather enjoy this plane, and like it a lot more than I thought I would.
My goggles randomly stopped recording 8 minutes into things, so I don't have any of the good stuff on video.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Feb 2, 2023 3:11:51 GMT
I used Mr NCT latex paint strategy. I just brushed it on amd brush stroke lines magically leveled out and disappeared. I bought this "gray" paint for 2 dollars in the lowes leftover section. Still have half left. Also I added a mount for a hd cam in the nose.  |
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