Ugly Wonder [BUILD]

Hello everyone, this will be a round up of my build of the Ugly Wonder foamie. As usual in my case, I use what i have available. the foam board used is 3mm thick, very light and when covered actually durable. the plans were downloaded from the FliteTest forums, from a thread belonging to a member called SPONZ,  this guys is great, very helpful. he usually improves the plans and makes them easier to use, or in this case the an original design.  

This is the link

http://forum.flitetest.com/showthread.php?17136-SP0NZ-Plans-Index

So basically its as usual, get plans printed, pin them to the foam mark and cut, there are not really that many parts, that make this plane. It came together really fast.

THe Major Components of the plane

Completed airframe

Assembly is really easy, the plane was made without the power pod design and with a permanent electronics.Speaking of which here is the list:

• Amax G2822 2600KV motor, 6x4 propeller
• 30A Plush Esc
• 2x9g servos
• 1300mah lipo
• Frsky V8R4-II

All up weight is 450 grams with battery. A small modification was made to the bottom , were a flap was cut to give access inside the fuselage. The flap was beveled all round to seat the flap in place, something that I saw previously but alway forgot to do when building. Below are the pictures of the result. The weather has been quite bad lately and will wait for a decent day with no wind before the maiden flight. If it flies it gets painted.  Until then Happy Flying!

The bevel cut on the flap

Ready for the maiden flight

FT Spitfire and Next Projects

Hi There, my FT Spitfire has been flown with the now much more powerful motor, and it flies great, the 3000mah battery is a good performer but flight times only last about 10 minutes, something I learned the hard way unfortunately, as the low voltage cutout shut off power to the motor and had to land behind some tree, no mayor damage, all fixed and flown again. The characteristics of the plane are very good. It tracks very well, its very responsive not to mention it looks the part. The video shows my friend Joseph Mustang as well as my Spitfire flying around one of the fields.

For the moment the Spitfire will remain as it is, until I get the airbrush and try to paint it.  The next project will be to fix a wing of my own design. This was a scratch built wing, roughly designed using the Flitetest Versa wing as a base. It is much larger than the Versa wing. It has seen few fights, and a lot of crashes unfortunately, hence the need to fix this. Below you can see the wing as it is now without power pod or fuselage. 

The main damage is:

• Motor mount area heavily damaged due to broken propeller striking the wing
• Under wing area where fuselage was mounted, damaged due to several bad crashes

I did not have any idea how to get around fixing it, until yesterday night when while watching a video on you tube saw a blunt nose Versa Wing which was made exceptionally well, the video is enclosed at the bottom.

So basically now 8 inches from the middle of the wing will be cut out and a new part will be made to that a blunt nose will be formed into it, which will allow my to run two 3s 2200mah batteries in parallel, and FPV gear.

Thats it for now and Happy Flying.