Diggity
70cc twin V2
Here is a pic of my servo mount. And current setup of my BF. Its a aluminum mount from Valleyviewrc.
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Oooooh!
I wanna fly it!!!
Maidened mine today. Flew at first with the 6" Dubros which made is very nose heavy. Got the flaps somewhat dialed in. After a few flights we switched them for 5" Kavan balloon tires and it made it a lot lighter and less nosy heavy. It does not look as cool though. By end of the day the only incident was that Gary ran it into the tall grass on roll out and managed to damage one of the gear strakes. Some CA and it should be fine.
We did have issues with the side door hatch. Both CA hinges came out by the end of the day and something will have to change there. I have better CA hinges from the 15cc project so I will try that next. They did such a good job on the top hatch, but the side door one is kind of shady as the door is too big to leave enough of a gap to get the door to open 90 degrees and still close on the bottom.
Patrick put in some nice LEDs, but they are 6V so we will have to wait for a regulator to show up as I am running a HV servo setup.
This plane does have a lot of scale flying tendancies. It will stall and drop a wing (no flaps) and rudder is sometimes mandatory to keep it flying well. I did hover it and do some loops and rolls, but I mainly played with the flaps . Doing a full flap takeoff and climb is pretty fun. I want to get a little more bold with high angle full flap landings. Also you have to use up elevator in the take off run to keep it from nosing over. I can see prop striking this airplane pretty easily, just like full scale planes of this type.
Be sure if you try to harrier her you use the flaps. When I was talking to Jim Smith at Bowling Green, he stressed this because it will stall, or even worse snap out without the use of flaps apparently.
I can co-sign that one...
Fred