Friday 10 August 2012

My new Plane!!

My new plane is a Fly Cat X-75 delta wing EPO plane. The kit was an ARTF style with ESC and brushless, but I had a lot of fun with the power-train. First the ESC was not working, get replacement, ESC makes smoke signals on bench testing (not even running), I then got a higher spec'ed one from my supplier and finally on the maiden the motor rattles around not cool. 

There is a brief video at the end and in those few seconds of panic I found my plane has a good glide angle and very responsive even when there is no thrust.

The Box...

The contents

Neatly rapped up.

Fuz

Tail feathers

Wing

Launch-grip and landing skid.

Supplied goods 

Together but Not.






Glued up and tagged.


After bench runs, highly under rated ESC

Cooked voltage reg. and 

the control IC's


New !40A! ESC and it works



What it looked like before flight and after.


The funny noise was the loose motor I sorted that out by adding shallow dimples on the lower part of the stator.