Blue cub (clipped wing)

[philthy]

Here's my latest crazy attempt at changing what is already a great aircraft!

Clipped 80mm off each wingtip and added wing fences (Don't know if they help but they look ok) Also added flaps to cope with the AUW , increased by carbon fibre parts in the rear fuse, larger motor, prop etc..
It ended up being a bit too heavy so I cut alot of the carbon back out and replaced with clear plastic sheet. I think the 'window look' turned out pretty good - it certainly wasn't designed that way originally

It flys great, much better than the red baron version. The crows seem to love it also ;D

[SCC]

Looking good philthy.
The pic of the crow & Cub is excellent.
What motor are you using?

[philthy]

It's actually got an e-flite power 10 up front. ;D
It was for another project that's on hold. It sounds extremely overpowered but this cub can still fly nice and gently (rarely go above 1/2 -2/3 throttle).
Every now and then it's good to go vertical in a 'space shuttle' manner

[pvtzemerak]

turkey volture
haha
cool plane, i recently got into a crash

[philthy]

Video is up of this thing in action............

youtube.com/watch?v=glCS0JIQGgw

[zeta30]

I love the bomb drop!

That ranks as one of my favorite SC Videos so far.

[SCC]

Apr 15, 2008 1:27:56 GMT 1 zeta30 said:

That ranks as one of my favorite SC Videos so far.

Have to agree with that. Nice one philthy. Excellent edit and the footage with the birds was great.

[flyinghigh]

Very nice! How did you do the flashing LED's?

[philthy]

I got them from here:

www.tjtrc.com/Liglow.htm

I just replaced the leds with much brighter ones.