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I should add that I generally fly with the CG fairly far aft and am fairly good at not over controlling. Trim it right side up, flip it over, and it's still trimmed! Never seen that before! I suggest starting more like 100-110mm and working the cg aft.
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On the plus side, it flys inverted with no forward stick at all. If your radio does not support multiple flight modes, I'd go with either really low rates with a dual rate setup (like 40%) or really high expo (like 70%) for the initial flights. A small gust hit it, and it ballooned up 8 ft. Landing it yesterday, it was floating down nicely. I have programmed a landing mode on my radio. People said it works, and it does, but it is boarderline stable in pitch. I could not believe the recommended CG, 120-130mm aft of the leading edge, so I searched RCGroups. There are some plywood bits that look like they are supposed to be servo arm extensions, but usage was unclear and would have required more work than my approach.ĬG. Without this, I did not have sufficient roll rate. The single sided arm goes on the servo, the control rod goes into the far end of the double sided arm. I built some servo arm extensions by screwing a double sided arm to a single sided arm with 2ea 2mmx8mm screws. Perhaps "flying weight" of 450-500 means w/o battery?
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No way will the flying weight be under 500gm w/o mods to the airframe there's nothing heavy in my build A thunderpower 1300mah 3s runs about 65gm, and that's about as light a battery as can be used.
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I'm using a turnigy d2830/11 (nearly the same as the Gforce e400), an acp 11x3.8 slow fly prop (also used the 10x4.5 slow fly from value hobby - cheap but fragile), a hobbyking 18amp esc, 4 9gm tower pro servos), and an frsky 5ch micro rx(4gm). I recommend this approach if you 're going to fly on grass.
It does not come out in flight, but can be removed by pinching the legs together.
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I should add that this is not my first rodeo, and I know how to make good glue joints.Īnother issue is that you wind up gluing to painted surfaces, never a good thing. Repairs have been done with 5 minute epoxy when possible, thin CA when I need it to wick. As I feared, CA is fine until you hit something. I really wanted to build it fast, and I let that and the instructions over-rule my better judgement (which was my fault), and used CA for the build. Non-foam safe CA is fine to use on EPP, but this is a 3D plane, it's going to hit the ground (at least with me flying it.), and CA is brittle. The main negative is that they recommend 502 glue (non-foam safe CA) for the assembly. It's all there, but unless you know what to look for, it could be challenging. Instructions are in fine print, both sides of one 8.5x11 inch paper. (Posted on ) First flight today Review by David Overall Overall - a great value and an excellent 3D trainer I heartily recommend the Hummer.
Now I see that the recommendation is 20 - 40a. The landing gear attachment is one of the best I have seen on a foam model.Īfter just a few flights one of the servos failed. After several crashes I have only managed to break two props. The airframe has proven to be very strong. Maiden flight required only minor trimming. The model only required battery placement to achieve balance.
This turned out to be a bad decision - more on this later. I purchased the recommended motor, ESC and servos. The included directions are of little help. Assembly was not too tough after viewing two vids on YouTube. The Hummer has certainly lived up to that desire. After destroying a pair of expensive models I decided to look for a more economical approach.