{"id":520,"date":"2009-10-14T13:50:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T19:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:15:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:15:46","slug":"rc-stryker-slope-glider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/rc-stryker-slope-glider\/","title":{"rendered":"R\/C Stryker Slope Glider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally took my newly built Stryker to the slope for some unpowered slope gliding at Ensign peak in Salt Lake City, Utah. I built the Stryker with these parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/parkzone.com\/Products\/Default.aspx?ProdID=PKZ1267\">Stryker Fuselage from ParkZone<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A tiny 2-cell LiPo battery<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbycity.com\/hobbycity\/store\/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=663\">Two cheap servos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbycity.com\/hobbycity\/store\/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=3735\">A cheap voltage converter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did not put a motor on the Stryker and used a tiny battery. It slopes beautifully in 15-20mph wind. In fact, I had to add some weight to get better penetration.<\/p>\n<p>I highly recommend the Stryker for slope flying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally took my newly built Stryker to the slope for some unpowered slope gliding at Ensign peak in Salt Lake City, Utah. I built the Stryker with these parts: Stryker Fuselage from ParkZone A tiny 2-cell LiPo battery Two cheap servos A cheap voltage converter I did not put a motor on the Stryker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}