RC Aircraft
Mini Chiroptera
This is 22-inch wingspan flying wing made with the FT Slice plans as a guide, which itself is a scaled down version of the FT Mini Arrow (like the Crimson Chiroptera), but made with cardboard. Nice concept, but I wasn't going to waste my time making a plane from a greasy pizza box, so I decided to make it with foam board instead, with some adjustments. Picture and video was taken a few flights after maiden, after replacing the ESC and motor from my dumbass putting the motor mount screws too far in, hence damaging the commutator wires. There was a good wind from the right, but I made it work.
For some reason this model suffered either from some receiver or servo issues, it would suddenly not respond to inputs at times, and the only fix would be to move the sticks to extremes to get the servos moving again. Eventually this lead to quite a few crashes to where it was unrepairable. With the new version, I added some balsa wood to the bottom to help reinforce the nose as this is where the major impacts usually occur.
