Kadet Senior Super Night Flyer

by Barn-E-Stormer | December 19, 2012 | (11) Posted in Projects

This is my kit built Kadet Senior, purpose built to be  a night flyer.  It has a RGB controller to sequence the LEDs, a landing light, dimming, accessory port to pull a lighted streamer and plug in laser beams on the wing tips.   All the lights are inside the covering.   I made it electric powered with a EFlite Power 46 and 4S 5000mah battery.  The lights are powered by a 3S 3000mah.  The lasers are powered via 1 cell thru the balance tap on the light battery.  The leading edge of the wing and the main fuselage lights are "always on" while the other wing panels and the tail are sequenced with the RGB controller.  The landing light, accessory and lasers are switched with a Turnigy receiver controlled switch from Hobby King.

 The Kadet airframe has several mods.  The wing dihedral has been lowered to 1 inch and ailerons added.   The center of the wing is reinforced with carbon fiber.  It has been converted to a tail dragger and electric power.  I added a hatch to the bottom for battery access.  The front sheeting has been omitted and extra holes punched in the sheeting to let more light out.

Several day flights have been made and one night flight.  I still need to get a good night video.  This plane was built just for night flying at Wally's Squadron and Joe Nall.

I am a big fan of Flite Test, I hope you like my first contribution.

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The complete build thread is on RCGroups.com

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Video of flight testing during a windy day.  It is too cold to get out at night right now but as soon as I get a good video I will post it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFw1Mf5clYQ 






COMMENTS

Bassalot on December 24, 2012
Please post a flying video. Sweet build.
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Cyberdactyl on December 20, 2012
Nice!
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Barn-E-Stormer on December 21, 2012
I edited the article to more pics and video but I guess it has not been approved yet.

Here is a link to the day flight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFw1Mf5clYQ
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Mizzster D Double-a on December 21, 2012
cool
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HoriAkuma on December 20, 2012
Amazing build, and great job with all those lights! I'd love to see some footage of it flying...
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Doctor3 on December 21, 2012
lets see it flying !
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earthsciteach on December 20, 2012
Crazy! Very cool!
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Zach Robinson on December 22, 2012
cool that will look awesome
on a long view camera
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wanabeRCexpert on December 4, 2016
wow
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Kadet Senior Super Night Flyer