Monthly Sweepstakes Winners!!

[Grossman56]

See the new sticky!

[Pauly]

Can't wait to hear the new winners. I know they will be excited as I was.

[Grossman56]

Okay Fellas. I've been waiting to hear from Doctor Mike, so we can pick a winner, the guys at Motion have given the go, but I can't seem to contact the Doctor. So as I do, we'll announce.

Grossman56

[Grossman56]

I haven't heard one way or the other, guys, I know the crew has been at Oshkosh, but I'll drop a note and see what I can find.


Grossman56

[mr.frankenjet]

HMMMM :o))

[Pauly]

I have thought the same thing DeltaDart

[F106DeltaDart]

Also, just realized there hasn't been a winner announced for this month. Is the sweepstakes discontinued?

[Flygirl]

Who'd a thunk it wind less than 10mph today less than 5 this evening. I really wrung the popwing out. I wouldn't thought they were this much fun. It is so maneuverable you can get pretty crazy with it and slow flight is amazing. You can put around at a crawl. I also put several flights on the Dallas Doll and got her dialed in perfect. I moved the ailerons in one hole on the aileron tab for a little more throw it's perfect now. I ran 1 full battery shooting touch and goes and landings.

Glad you like it FF!!!! It's such an easy "go to" plane as well. No bolting wings on and all that stuff. Just pop a battery in and instant fun. :)

[F106DeltaDart]

Who'd a thunk it wind less than 10mph today less than 5 this evening. I really wrung the popwing out. I wouldn't thought they were this much fun. It is so maneuverable you can get pretty crazy with it and slow flight is amazing. You can put around at a crawl. I also put several flights on the Dallas Doll and got her dialed in perfect. I moved the ailerons in one hole on the aileron tab for a little more throw it's perfect now. I ran 1 full battery shooting touch and goes and landings.

Great to hear! Both are nice really flyers and it seems like they are plenty of fun. As for getting hit, I really should have seen it coming. When you fly combat with 20 others, many of whom had flown for barely a few months, something was bound to happen. I'm just glad I wasn't flying a jet or warbird at the time. It could have been much worse.

[farmflyer]

Who'd a thunk it wind less than 10mph today less than 5 this evening. I really wrung the popwing out. I wouldn't thought they were this much fun. It is so maneuverable you can get pretty crazy with it and slow flight is amazing. You can put around at a crawl. I also put several flights on the Dallas Doll and got her dialed in perfect. I moved the ailerons in one hole on the aileron tab for a little more throw it's perfect now. I ran 1 full battery shooting touch and goes and landings.

[farmflyer]

Wow that's just crazy. I shouldn't have to worry about that I usually fly alone occasionally with my sons. I don't know unless I hit myself catching the popwing Lol.

[F106DeltaDart]

Glad you got that sorted out, the thrust angle can really make things fly strange! Performance sounds great on the stock setup! I ran mine with an exceed 1880kv on both 3S and 4S. It was a real rocket until it met its end 3 months ago. When I had a midair. I say me, not the plane, because a newer pilot hit me in the head with his FT delta when he was trying to land. During that time, the popping did a full throttle dive into the ground and was totaled beyond repair.

[farmflyer]

Ok I got the popwing sorted out and these are Way To Much Fun! My issue turned out to be the wooden motor mount was not on level. Pay special attention when gluing it on. I thought I had it straight and level and set it aside to dry I guess it moved giving the motor a down angle. Being mounted on the back I guess it pushed the back of the wing down causing the nose to want to go up. I cut the mount off remounted it level. Did the second maiden today and it flys great. I used a 1300 3s admiral and ended up with 1/2 oz of weight to balance at 212 mm which is where it flew best for me. These are super agile and are pretty quick. I set it up at 60% travel on low rate and 100% for high with 40% expo on both. I flew 7 minutes on conservative throttle landed and checked the battery 3.97 per cell. I also can go up to about 200 feet and get 1 to 2 minutes of flight with no throttle. If you don't have a 900 mm techone popwing you should give one a try it's as much fun flying as I have had in a while.

[Grossman56]

Way to go Farm, remember, the first purpose of a maiden is to get it safely back on the ground, same as a test pilot.

Grossman56

[F106DeltaDart]

Congrats farmflyer! I agree that it sounds mechanical, especially if it nosed in a couple times on attempted launch. You would have noticed some strange things happening if it was tailheavy, especially in and around stalls..

[Flygirl]

Got my maiden on the pop wing today! Took me 3 times to get the launch figured out it kept nosing in before I could react to get it flying. 7 to 9 mph wind it flew pretty good not as twitchy as I thought it might be. I either need more nose weight or need to do more mechanical trim because I used all my down trim to keep it from wanting to climb very steep. On low throttle it would just sit and not move that was fun. I got a solid 6 minutes flight time at 2/3 or slightly less throttle. Don't let it get to far away it gets really hard to see not much profile.

Woooooohooooooooo! Glad to hear FF!! Sounds like mechanical... Trust me, you'd have known it if you needed nose weight. Wings are pretty uncontrollable when tail heavy or at least the ones I've flown have been. It's like up down up down up down up down THUMP! ;)

[farmflyer]

The other thing I recomend is to work the ailerons quit a bit by hand before hooking up the servos. The foam is stiff and binds the servos to the point of bending the control rods when they try to push the surfaces down so loosen em up good. When I get round two in I'll report back.

[Grossman56]

Great to hear Farm, they look truly different, I'm sure you'll get it worked out. Its always nice when they're not as twitchy as you expect. Not to get into another twitchy rant, right Bryan?

LOL

Grossman56

[farmflyer]

Got my maiden on the pop wing today! Took me 3 times to get the launch figured out it kept nosing in before I could react to get it flying. 7 to 9 mph wind it flew pretty good not as twitchy as I thought it might be. I either need more nose weight or need to do more mechanical trim because I used all my down trim to keep it from wanting to climb very steep. On low throttle it would just sit and not move that was fun. I got a solid 6 minutes flight time at 2/3 or slightly less throttle. Don't let it get to far away it gets really hard to see not much profile.

[F106DeltaDart]

I think you will really enjoy how this one flies. Certainly better low speed handling than an Assasin in my opinion. Good call on the carbon in the nose, I had to reglue that piece several times after it came off. I also flew mine with a 3S 2200 so that it didn't need much extra ballast to balance.