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Building, flying, and the inevitable repairing of powered and unpowered winged RC airplanes.

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New foam board twin boom! Its the second plane I’ve built (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by kokopelli to c/rc_planes

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It’s struggled to fly well, but I think it’s because I’m a new pilot and it’s much less floaty compared to the other one I made. I’m hoping to get better before I break the poor thing, we’ll see

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've heard that "push" planes that have a significant amount of the plane in front of the propeller are harder to fly.

[–] kokopelli 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn’t doubt that. I like the propwash going over the tail, makes it easy to recover from a stall since you can force it over. The main reason I chose a pusher design is I still have a tendency to plow the nose into the ground and I want to protect the motor and prop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I've broken a couple of props with them. I'm a ~~bad~~ new enough pilot that I'd rather deal with broken props than a difficult airframe.