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I assembled this absolutely as described in the construction guide, with only one alteration. Research on the web indicated that this model had a slight problem with dihedral, and a dihedral string joining the wingtips was repeatedly suggested. No matter what I did, i could not get this machine to go together without asymetrical dihedral. Eventually, I added a king-post directly over the nominal center-of-gravity, and added dihedral "wires" (dental floss) from this, to the ends of the bamboo wing-skewers. This seems to work best at rectifying the problem, but I still ended up with considerable "lean" on the wings Pictured with my dog's tennis-ball, to show scale. (Yes, my dog plays tennis, but he has his own set of rules.) |
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What a mess! OK, so I'm not much of a pilot, but still. This thing RoG in a dead calm and immediately started turning right. Not surprising with all the asymetrical dihedral! Full left rudder and trim and it still wanted to circle right. Eventually (after two minutes, the lifespan of the cell pack) I landed it softly, and at the end of the roll it gently nosed over ... and bust the prop. :-/ I had a spare prop, but I decided to shelve this aeroplane. I put the servos and Rx to use in the Alucard and hung the remainder of the airframe on the wall. battery-packs, ESC, etc, went into the Tiggie. Maybe I'll get back to the Pico Stick later, maybe not. I still have all the bits that can be scavanged out, so the $35 was not a waste. Who knows? Later when I am a better flier/builder I might even get this to work properly! But in the mean time, this one has to go down in the books as a disapointment. |
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