I was bored so I started building, my original idea was to make a small balsa free-flight model with an airfoil with the look of an Aeronca champ or piper cub, here are my results: a wingspan of 21.5in and a length of 10.5in this is one of my smallest builds. Its' arf weight is 21.6g and ready to fly it wieghs 41 grams. Two things about this bulid are unique, one the built-up construction (including airfoil) (I used packing tape and seran-rap to cover my wing), two I realy just made up the design as I went although generally following the look of the cub and champ. I will use a simple micro 3ch setup "barrowed" from a hobbyzone champ and the small brushed motor from a micro parkzone p51. my maiden "flight" was very short my horizontal stab. was giving a down imput, anyways after managing to warm up a battery in the 0 degree temps I took it off in about 30 feet and chrash landed. As far as I can tell my wing perfoms well. After my first true flights I got it balenced out but I still had rudder problems, the plane tended to like tight circles and hated wind. After some more flying I found it likes to get into a knife edge attitude. This is probably due to the torque of the motor I will work on the this.
Here are some pics of of construction and the finished product.
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