FT Spitfire build from correx test

The supplier in South Africa stopped producing foam boards.. so correx will have to be the next best thing.. its just really heavy and the ft"beef" setup is just, just not powerfull enough..

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Great looking build! From the video, it looked to be a touch tail-heavy - any time you applied throttle it wanted to climb. You might overcome it with a pile of down elevator, but I think pushing the CG forward a little will give you a more consistent flight experience. It also looked like you had a lot of under-camber on the wing; if that's the case it's kind-of like flying with constant flaps deployed. You could take a little of this under-camber out by 'flattening out' the ailerons, and bringing both of them more in line with the underside of the wing, rather than following the downward curve of the top of the wing. My 1927 Velie Monocoupe initially had a wing with these 'strong' under-camber characteristics, which was great for slow flying, but meant the plane climbed like crazy when I applied throttle. In its final format as the 'Morphocoupe', I added flaps (which you could on the spitfire) and aligned both the flaps and the ailerons flush with the underside of the wing. It now needs to fly a little faster in normal mode, but flies just as slow as it did before with the flaps deployed; but it's much more predictable. Could be I'm wrong though, but it does look like it from the photographs. Cheers, alibopo.
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Love the looks of it you did a really good job with it. I would love to know the cost of it and was it about the same wait as with the foam board? you did a really good pant job on it too. Keep it up
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nice job
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I just published a video using coroplast for the tail feathers and I am trying to get a delta made of the same material to fly well but I am trading weight for durability.
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