slope soaring f20 tiger shark

trying our best to slope soar a ducted fan airframe, maybe the cg was a little too rearward for the second flight to be a success

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Entertainment

Tags:

• tiger
• shark
• f20
• pss
• glider
• gliding
• slope
• soar
• detling
• goodwind
• thurnham
• rc
• plane

[robotwarsaintdead]

and the moral of the story is, jets arent good at sloping :P.

[miniphase]

@robotwarsaintdead

....unless you make them a bit 'gliderish' :)

[hexhome]

The launcher always feels bad though. I hate launching!

[miniphase]

best to give the disclaimer before chucking....

part 2 coming soon

[LuixBestia]

hahahaha fantastic big video ;)

5 star

[miniphase]

thanks Luix, it flew again today with slightly better results, more film to follow at some point

[paulkazjack]

@paulkazjack still no comment....

[miniphase]

from the 'six million dollar man' opening theme (a tv series from the 70s) with a couple of other bits chucked in for good measure

[thezaggikid]

where did u get all the sounds from lol

[miniphase]

I feel it may have been a cg issue rather than a launch technique issue....