The nut-ball that I designed and built is of a simple design. The body has a diameter of 20 inches with the tips stretching up about 1.75 inches up. The rudder is slightly oversized and has decent movement, but the elevator's movement seems to be very light. In my design, I added some extra length and area to the elevator to compensate for the lack in vertical movement. The power plant consists of a Turnigy 2730 1300KV motor attached to a 25 amp Turnigy ESC. The battery is a 460 mil/amp battery 3C, and the receiver is an AM Castle that is used to communicate with my Futaba transmitter. I have not flown this yet however I will update this after having done so and give more feedback as to how it flew and other issues. (pics/video will be included upon completion of the first flight)
*UPDATE (June 7 2012) - I have completed the build for the most part, but the transceiver I had was running on a dead battery. I have opted to upgrade to a 2.4 Ghz hobby king transceiver and receiver instead of the AM system.
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