but I wanted a canopy, and that covers the pin. In the plans, the top deck is attached with a paper hinge and bamboo pin. The bevel isnt cut yet, but the wire needs to be right up next to it or even into it a bit to clear the rudder. ![]() 32 wire, and looking at it, it's problebly 1/4" or so longer than it needs on each end. One of my first builds was an FT Simple Storch, and it was great, but the elevator warped on me because the connection between the sides is thin relative to the surfaces. I used a gift card and 1/16” ply, with CA and Hot Glue. So I searched and found this by hursto75. After only a few flights the rudder begins to delaminate and while it didn’t fail completely it was only a matter of time. The steerable tail wheel ‘solution’ I used didn’t work well. Not quite sure what I was thinking as I bent this one. The rudder has a high strength to weight and on other Mini builds has held up well for me. No, not the best solution or implementation of a not the best solution, but on a Mini it isn’t so bad. Be aware poster board rounded 'turtle' decks distort the pattern if you use one. Nearly all of these can be used on other FT planes besides the Mini Sportster in these examples. They aren't really anything special or new, but I thought if they were here in one place for others to see maybe someone could use them. So for this FT Mighty Mini Sportster here are some modifications to do as you put it together. I also like planes that can not only take off from the ground, but are steerable also. It’s no fun fixing the damaged pod for the fourth time, or adding support after the fact. Over the last year I’ve learned a few things about the FT planes. Looking around the internet results in plenty of very nice designs, but many have long or complicated build times in comparison (Maybe someday, when I don’t crash so much). Maintaining the 4 Horizon planes in my hanger is fun too, in spite of my apparent learning curve disability where it comes to flying them!Īll I can say is I really like the FT concepts. About a dozen or so FT designs so far both scratch and speed build kits, plus a few modified planes based on FT design and one or two started with a piece of DTFB and ending up with delta wing using no plans at all. Trying to pull a heavy object using the piston + addon will probably result in the top of the piston top breaking.I’m relatively new to RC airplanes compared to many here, Flying just over a year and building about as long. ![]() Works on asteroids, small and large ships. if you do it the top part of the piston will break from the main part. I dont know the precise weight limit / piston, but if you use too few and activate the grav script they might break.Ĥ Pistons were able to lift Big red(2.6Mkg) wihtout problem using the grav script and didnt break when activated.ĭue to the recent rework of landing gears you cant use the piston version to lock on to stations. Use more than one to lift a ship since the pressure gets devided on all of them.īeen doing tests using both mass blocks and the enhanced gravity generator script. When using the piston LG the stability and reliability is increased by doing two things: The addon works as a normal landing gear but is designed to blend in to the design of the HLG(Piston) in order to make it lock onto surfaces. Since it isnt a landing gear you need to keep it in place using gravity, either by using the mass blocks or by using the enhanced gravity generator mod (read notes and issues) Works like a piston but got the landing gear design. Works like a normal landing gear but will be able to take a beating compared to vanilla landing gears (Mexpex quality engineering ) ) ![]() This landing gear mod includes the following blocks:
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