"DELFER" FT-Delta and FT-Flyer combined

 I am a newbie.I flew the Great Planes PT-Trainer for about 10 mins 20 years ago and that has been the extent of my flying career . Thanks to Flitetest  I have flown the FT-Flyer a total of 7 times with no crashes but was getting board.( I know, I know it takes time and practice ) but I wanted a little more. I built the Delta and flew it for 3 seconds before destroying it. I must be building it wrong as it was the 2nd one and both failed quickly.  The FT Flyer flies so well but I wanted to try ailerons so why not make two planes into one. I took some of the FT-Delta wing design and put it on the FT -flyer tail. added some wing tips for a nicer look and  incase they would help keep it stable

I did some glide tests and all looked good. I tried a quick flight as it was quite windy but managed to do a couple of circuits . It was so windy though that it would almost do a complete hover in the wind .

When the wind calms down I am looking forward to getting in some real flights and use this plane as my training vehicle for aileron and rudder control

Update 1 :  Over the weekend the winds were more reasonable and I took it out . Does this ever fly nice . A very minor trimming and it's hands off. It does loops and rolls quite well. Being a small plane it will fly in a small park. Not needing  a lot of space, it is perfect for me.  Looking forward now to hone my flying skills  with this.

Update 2: Have made  15 good flights in now and also added landing  gear to learn  landing  and take off  techneques . This is an excellent trainer for me     Thankyou  Flitetest

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Below is version II  It has flown once and it was an excellent flight . I used a broken 8x4 prop that I cut down to 7" and it is perfect .I increased the wing area a little to see what it would do different from version I and the result was it will fly slower if needed.  By the way a large tree jumped up and smacked version I

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