Of all the swappables, I find the Bloody Wonder gives me more fun per mAh than the others. I always felt like one thing was missing, and as I was ghosting the rudder one day I said that was it.
I started by cutting the fins off of my wonder and making new ones without the notch at the back.
I cut the hinge in line with the top corner and glued them on with an angle piece of foam top and bottom for reinforcement.
I have the hinge in line with the elevator's. Knowing I needed room for inside movement I cut the elevator to allow for it, it did not lessen the performance of the elevator to any degree that I could tell. I then added a servo between the aileron and elevator servo and ran control rods to the inside of both control surfaces.
That added quite a bit of weight to aft but a shift of the battery and she was back to balanced. Now I just have to maiden the new Wonder
I am giddy as a schoolgirl about my new Wonder, the rudders add a whole new level of Holy Craptitude to the experience. It adds nothing if you want this bird for combat, but for flying squirrelly like I like to it does the trick. I did find that my roll rate was diminished by the larger stabilizers and will increase the aileron throws for the next flight. I highly recommend metal gears for the rudder servos because they are so unprotected in any foul landing. I have the cheapest digital metal gears in existance on this thing and I bounced it a dozen times today and she is still going strong.
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