Our TundraTrike RC Plane!

Hi again everybody! It hasn't been very long, and I know that I wrote only yesterday, but I recently put a new battery in my camera, and decided that I should write about some more personal things, as oppose to just information. So I took some photos of the foam board RC plane that my Dad and I built a couple of years ago. Here's what the plane looks like:

The underside of the plane 

A view of the plane from a back view as it was hanging on the ceiling

We decided to call it The TundraTrike because of the utility/bush plane type appearance from the
two-and-a-quarter inch front wheel and the two-and-a-half inch back wheels. This size of wheels works fairly well on a 580 gram plane on the average grass but we recommend three-inch wheels instead because the takeoffs were sometimes very . . . sketchy. Also more clearance between the prop and the ground. When my Dad designed it, he gave the wing a low aspect ratio of five so that the wing could carry all of the plane's bulkiness along with making it a reasonably maneuverable trainer RC plane.  It has an E-flite Park 370 motor with a 7-inch pitch propeller that (I think) has a diameter of 8 inches which gives means that the plane can fly at about sixty km/h and it has a thrust-to-weight ratio of almost one, because it comes close to hovering vertically for a few seconds when its in a vertical position. Even though I had already been flying in the simulator for a few years, it is always good to start with a very easy-to-fly RC plane when you begin flying in real life because it is a very different experience.

I will try to find some videos of this plane flying that blogger will accept because the ones that I have tried to upload so far have had to much content for blogger.