16-03-2012, 08:33 AM
The thing's I noticed about the stinger were:
firstly Because of her short and swept back wings, I think it's a little difficult to judge her bank angle in the air, especially not being used to her and when she gets further away. McCoy field is a different place to fly in the late afternoon with the sun in the west, brightly beeming over the top of the willows. With a decent breeze from the east, that corner of the sky becomes a lot less flyable and it's also where you want to approach from, when landing.
To me the stinger seems to be a plane thats happier flying fairly wide and open, with nice gentle turns that don't wash off much speed. She doesn't react super positivly in pitch and if you give her heaps of elevator she seems to, kind of, mush rather than tightly turn the corner. Doing a split S required quite a bit more height than I'm used too.
Being powered by a ducted fan, she is not greatly responsive to throttle inputs, which meant I had to stay ahead of her, as far as maintaining air speed was concerened. When things slow up she becomes a lot less manouverable especially in pitch. She realy needs pace to do anything and anything that's done too tightly washes off a lot of pace!
This has to be seen in the context of not wanting to fly a model, that likes to be flown wide, too far away, because of the orange indoor reciever that was in her. (must change that as a matter of priority)
I felt that, to keep her close in and not loose too much pace I was flying her full throttle almost all of the time. If I banked her over on edge and gave her a heap of elevator she would'nt hold height for very long, she would slow up and begin to loose altitude. So I'd have to lessen her bank angle and the turn would become wider. I would have found her easier to fly with more power. I suggest that implanting her with something like StevenB's fan unit would change things! After that she would be a different bird all together!!
I hope I don't sound critical of this model, I'm not trying to be. This is my experiance of flying her and most reading, will know well my opinions are marred by my preference for models with a wider envelope. She is not a 3D model and nor was she designed to be, she is what she is, flown with that in mind she's actually quite a nice bird. She doesn't do anything nasty and we did give her the oppertunity to show us her mean side. Once She's set up right I'm sure you'll get a lot of enjoyment from flying her!! ......................... I just whish we had got some video.
firstly Because of her short and swept back wings, I think it's a little difficult to judge her bank angle in the air, especially not being used to her and when she gets further away. McCoy field is a different place to fly in the late afternoon with the sun in the west, brightly beeming over the top of the willows. With a decent breeze from the east, that corner of the sky becomes a lot less flyable and it's also where you want to approach from, when landing.
To me the stinger seems to be a plane thats happier flying fairly wide and open, with nice gentle turns that don't wash off much speed. She doesn't react super positivly in pitch and if you give her heaps of elevator she seems to, kind of, mush rather than tightly turn the corner. Doing a split S required quite a bit more height than I'm used too.
Being powered by a ducted fan, she is not greatly responsive to throttle inputs, which meant I had to stay ahead of her, as far as maintaining air speed was concerened. When things slow up she becomes a lot less manouverable especially in pitch. She realy needs pace to do anything and anything that's done too tightly washes off a lot of pace!
This has to be seen in the context of not wanting to fly a model, that likes to be flown wide, too far away, because of the orange indoor reciever that was in her. (must change that as a matter of priority)
I felt that, to keep her close in and not loose too much pace I was flying her full throttle almost all of the time. If I banked her over on edge and gave her a heap of elevator she would'nt hold height for very long, she would slow up and begin to loose altitude. So I'd have to lessen her bank angle and the turn would become wider. I would have found her easier to fly with more power. I suggest that implanting her with something like StevenB's fan unit would change things! After that she would be a different bird all together!!
I hope I don't sound critical of this model, I'm not trying to be. This is my experiance of flying her and most reading, will know well my opinions are marred by my preference for models with a wider envelope. She is not a 3D model and nor was she designed to be, she is what she is, flown with that in mind she's actually quite a nice bird. She doesn't do anything nasty and we did give her the oppertunity to show us her mean side. Once She's set up right I'm sure you'll get a lot of enjoyment from flying her!! ......................... I just whish we had got some video.
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