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selection

Tiny slope glider.
Very cheap.
Saw a couple of these flying well at the mynd.
So cheap, it's not really worth not having 1.

construction

Complete built 1 piece balsa wing.
Flat bottom section with single spar and ply dihedral brace.
Only needs wig dowel and nylon screw to be found and fitted.
Ailerons to be attached - diamond tape full length top and bottom.

2 tail pieces are ready chamfered for epoxying to the tail.
I used the smallest screw on control horns I could find, but glued in home made would look better and weigh less.

Fuselage is usual grp thing, but very thin and light.
Elevator control tube is ready installed for some thin, indoor type piano wire control rod.
I used 2 indoor type 4.4g servos and a gws Rx.
Aileron control wires with screw adjusters exit through slots in the fuselage under the wing.

A small Rx power pack that fitted in the nose still required some lead adding for balance.
To avoid adjusters on the tail I zero trimmed the Tx and jigged the ruddervators straight while soldering the 3 bits of wire together.
Replaced the original Rx antenna with a bit of wire the same length as a larger Rx - maybe this will help range?

Didn't like the colour clash of the dark blue canopy so covered it with shiny xmas wrapping tape.

flight

Now flown quite a few times.
Stays up quite well in light winds.
Zooms about quite nicely, but like all small aircraft things happen quickly, and it takes a lot of concentration to keep the wings level.
The wing section means it is impossible to maintain inverted.
The Rx aerial is about 3x as long as the fuselage.

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