27-04-2011, 01:53 PM
Good report Dave!
Absolutley gutted by the Stryker failing.
For those that didn't get to see it fly, It had some massive control surfaces and huuuge throws. It was also quite tail heavy. This made for extreme high alpha performance and very crazy sharp turns. I had to have 90% expo just to get it to a flyable state. I was almost able to get it backflipping (Whilst flying forwards) and had it survived its 2nd day flying I am confident I probably would have had it downpat.
I'm running my old Skyfun power setup which pushed a much heavier airframe around the sky quite quickly so you can imagine what it did with a Stryker! The caveat was that it developed some high speed flutter (As it approached the sound barrier! :P ). We thought this to be a byproduct of a gap between the elevons and fuselage, well I sealed that up and on the first run of the day I got catastrophic flutter at a much lower speed which broke the clevis' and ended up with the stryker nosing in and somehow feeding the rx to the motor!
Seeing that the F27Q is due out soon with similar aerobatic performance, I've decided to temporarily retire the mega stryker in lieu of something else (Another impulse buy!) to tie me over till it arrives
Absolutley gutted by the Stryker failing.
For those that didn't get to see it fly, It had some massive control surfaces and huuuge throws. It was also quite tail heavy. This made for extreme high alpha performance and very crazy sharp turns. I had to have 90% expo just to get it to a flyable state. I was almost able to get it backflipping (Whilst flying forwards) and had it survived its 2nd day flying I am confident I probably would have had it downpat.
I'm running my old Skyfun power setup which pushed a much heavier airframe around the sky quite quickly so you can imagine what it did with a Stryker! The caveat was that it developed some high speed flutter (As it approached the sound barrier! :P ). We thought this to be a byproduct of a gap between the elevons and fuselage, well I sealed that up and on the first run of the day I got catastrophic flutter at a much lower speed which broke the clevis' and ended up with the stryker nosing in and somehow feeding the rx to the motor!
Seeing that the F27Q is due out soon with similar aerobatic performance, I've decided to temporarily retire the mega stryker in lieu of something else (Another impulse buy!) to tie me over till it arrives