17-11-2011, 12:21 PM
After the last flight there were a few minor repairs, some things came a little loose after that abortfull crosswind bungee launch. These were sorted out and some time was spent making a new canopy to cover the electricals and to mount the camera on. The old one was of thin plastic and was very flexable, thus it vibrated, shook up the camera immage and eventually ended up tearing away in mid flight. Thankfully John had his eye on it, noted where it fell and it was easily retrieved. I hope it still works 
must test it out before I go to the field.
Here's a pic of the new canopy
I guess it's worth noting that this model is based on the same airfoil and planform as the cores that we recently had cut, mentioned in this thread http://forum.rcflyingclub.com/showthread.php?tid=436&pid=9235#pid9235
The motor is a turnagy 42 40 1300Kv and it's being fed by 2 3S 2250mah Rhino packs in parrelell via a Kforce 85A ESC and will do just over 100 Klicks with the current prop set up. There's a fair bit of more room to prop it up further.
must test it out before I go to the field.
Here's a pic of the new canopy
I guess it's worth noting that this model is based on the same airfoil and planform as the cores that we recently had cut, mentioned in this thread http://forum.rcflyingclub.com/showthread.php?tid=436&pid=9235#pid9235
The motor is a turnagy 42 40 1300Kv and it's being fed by 2 3S 2250mah Rhino packs in parrelell via a Kforce 85A ESC and will do just over 100 Klicks with the current prop set up. There's a fair bit of more room to prop it up further.
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