Cub pimpin'

[necubflyer]

Ginginho,

That's a beautiful cover job man! Love how you worked the stock decals and colors in with your scheme. Glad to see another inspired Cub owner from the vids:)

Adding the DX6i and trying different props really makes this plane shine. On an average, I get 18 to 25 minutes of flight time out of each battery and usually land with a voltage reading of 11.25V, which is right on target for Lipos. Have you had a chance to fly her with the new radio yet?

[ginginho]

Feb 26, 2009 13:33:54 GMT 1 necubflyer said:

Ginginho,

That's a beautiful cover job man! Love how you worked the stock decals and colors in with your scheme. Glad to see another inspired Cub owner from the vids:)

Adding the DX6i and trying different props really makes this plane shine. On an average, I get 18 to 25 minutes of flight time out of each battery and usually land with a voltage reading of 11.25V, which is right on target for Lipos. Have you had a chance to fly her with the new radio yet?

Thanks mate, really appreciate it!

Yes I've had quite a few successful flights recently, and a few less than successful when I first changed things around. Those were caused by:

1) reversed elevator servo when maiden on 2.4GHz prior to aileron mod (and wing covering), resulting in my avatar.
2) weak aileron pushrods (straightened paperclips) bending under WOT causing unintentional "flaps", resulting in massive lift, mad looping, wingflapping, butt clenching moments although this didn't cause a crash per se.

It took a few flights to iron out the gremlins, but I now have the Tx tuned nicely for throttle control and haven't had any "moments" since.

P.S. I only used the stock decals as I don't have the printing technology to make my own!

[necubflyer]

Ginginho, Ouch is right How did the plane fair in the crash?

It's a interesting coincidence about your experience, because the wife and I finally got out to fly this last weekend (Yeah 25 degrees is pretty darn cold!) with the new plane. I had only flown (maiden-ed) it once before winter hit and got it trimmed out... she flew great!

The wife is still in the "Training Mode" so I take the plane off and do a few minor trim adjustments then flip the Trainer Switch and nothing... wife's moving the control sticks around and no reaction from the plane . I start checking cords and such... still no inputs from the buddy box. OK.. it's been 4 months since the last time I've flown and realize her buddy box was turned on.. *NOTE: If you use DX6i's in the Buddy Box configuration, the slave box must be turned OFF! That was an easy fix ;D

I get the plane up to altitude again... check the trim inputs on both boxes and flip the trainer switch again... plane does a hard climb into a stall, rolls hard right and spirals toward the ground At this point the wife is getting very excited screaming at me, asking if I had the plane... where as I keep trying to explain to her how to recover from this demise (which only makes things worst!). Just before the plane becomes a "Lawn Dart", I take the controls back and ask her if she has completely forgotten how to fly?... not good on the marriage!

Plane under control again, I get it back to altitude and ask her if she's ready to try again. By now we have a few people standing behind us watching in amusement. I flip the switch and the plane again does a hard climb into a stall, rolls left and spirals toward the ground like a homesick gopher! At this point I'm now a little excited... passionity telling her to fly the plane! I take control again and land without incident. I walk over to the plane, do another ground test with the main box and all is fine... then do a ground test with the trainer box and guess what? all the controls were reversed!!! I had forgotten to reconfigure her buddy box with the correct setting After I reconfigured everything the plane & wife flew great and the marriage was restored...Lol!

Moral of this very long story? Always do a ground check with both Master & Slave boxes before take-off!

[ginginho]

Feb 27, 2009 14:24:11 GMT 1 necubflyer said:

Ginginho, Ouch is right How did the plane fair in the crash?

Oh, no major damage really. I actually did it twice before realising the problem. Just a prop and the engine mount I'd made from some vero board. I have since converted this part to perspex which can take the odd nose over without any fear of damage.
I'm slightly ashamed to say that you can view a video of this (and other mayhem) in the Crashes section, thread is called something like "Christmas Eve Frolics..." a link to the video is in the third from last posting.

Feb 27, 2009 14:24:11 GMT 1 necubflyer said:

<SNIP of very amusing tale>
After I reconfigured everything the plane & wife flew great and the marriage was restored...Lol!

Moral of this very long story? Always do a ground check with both Master & Slave boxes before take-off!

You are a brave man to buddy box with your other half. I'd dare not. Even if mine was into flying and suffered a crash, it definitely would be my fault whether buddied or not, even if I wasn't at the field

[necubflyer]

You are a brave man to buddy box with your other half. I'd dare not. Even if mine was into flying and suffered a crash, it definitely would be my fault whether buddied or not, even if I wasn't at the field

Lol... you know the golden rule...

Rule #1 The wife is ALWAYS RIGHT!

Rule #2 If in doubt, refer to rule no.1!!!

To tell you the truth, I love having my wife come fly with me! Towards the end of last year she was just learning to land and take-off... talk about excitement! I can't wait to see her solo... then maybe I can get some good pics and vids of the plane in the air ;D



I tried to get her to pose in a skimpy bikini with her plane... like you see on the front covers of RC Model Plane magazines. She told me I had a better chance of "Hell freezing over!!!" Lol

[ginginho]

Might as well add one of the flight photos to this thread, as Pat and NEcubFlyer like the looks so much

[patmatgal]

Oh Yeah...

[patmatgal]

Built this plane and figure I had to put in this thread.

Plum colored top (that's what the manufacturer calls it) and yellow underside. I ran a 3/4 inch glue stick along each side and sprinkled silver glitter on it, looked nice but that stuff just falls off too easily (my niece said I should have used liquid glue so will try that later) The outside of the wheels were soaked in watered down school glue and then pressed onto a tray of glitter, was hoping to get a sparkle effect on the tires only but ended up with a solid disc of glue & sparkle. For the wheels (wanted to get a Low Rider look) I used a PZ Typhoon landing gear wire inserted into the SC slot and bent out as soon as it went below the X port tube. Cut about 3/4 inch lengths of aluminum tubing to slip onto the axle before the wheel in order to keep the stock wheels from rubbing up against the fuse, this put the center of gravity much closer to the ground and made the plane much more stable when taxing (that doesn't look right, driving on the ground). This landing gear set up didn't leave enough clearance for a 10 inch prop so I ended up cutting a 10X6 down to about a 9X6 (APC makes a 9X6e that also worked great). For the windscreen and side windows I just used the decals as a template and cut them out of aluminum foil, CA on the foil, kicker on the fuse and they stuck like white on rice. It doesn't show here but I cut a chanel out about 3 inches behind the leading edge of the wing and inserted a carbon strip along the bottom of the wing, left all the diihedral in the wing. I'm only using 2 rubber bands to hold the wing to the fuse because they are much thicker (from a rubber band gun) and instead of wing struts I used kite string looped around the X port tube. Oh, and I do have a cowl painted in the same color and reinforced inside with spray on Plasti Dip, just forgot it in my rush to the field to fly my Super Cub Pimped.
PS Second battery I was flying inverted, the plane started rolling over, couldn't save it in time and WHAM! WOT into the ground.