My two video recorded flights today. I didn't bother with the camera on the Calypso, and so far, when I tried putting the camera on the Stinger, it shifted the CG too much aft. I'd have needed to add weight to the nose to correct it, and didn't want to potentially load the plane up too much.
The resurrected Sensei, now called Fawkes, needs the rates on the ailerons turned down. It took very little stick movement to throw her into a bank, which is much different than her flying characteristics with the original wing. I also need to reinforce the wing root mounting a bit, and those two factors motivated me to keep the flight short.
The Flite Test Simple Scout, however, is a nice flying foamboard plane. I can do a five minute flight on the 3S 1300 mAh battery.
The resurrected Sensei, now called Fawkes, needs the rates on the ailerons turned down. It took very little stick movement to throw her into a bank, which is much different than her flying characteristics with the original wing. I also need to reinforce the wing root mounting a bit, and those two factors motivated me to keep the flight short.
The Flite Test Simple Scout, however, is a nice flying foamboard plane. I can do a five minute flight on the 3S 1300 mAh battery.
I've been working hard on landing and taking off technique the last couple months (cause I finally realized after 6 years that those skills were sorely lacking) and was able to take-off and land each bird perfectly. 
Used to like flying, now all of a sudden I absolutely love it and a lot of the planes in my hanger that I didn't exactly enjoy flying (because of crappy landings) 
I now really enjoy flying them. I used to blame the plane, but realized it wasn't the plane, it was my poor skills. I got spoiled flying my Beast 60 and my 5 Extreme Flight 60" planes that pretty much land themselves, so my poor technique didn't cause any problem with those. The warbirds and jets really exposed my problems. 
I going to post in the Corsair thread the techniques I learned for landing and taking off on grass in case there is any of you out there like me. 
Great job George!!! Your bro from Texas!!! 
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