{"id":64,"date":"2007-07-24T12:33:03","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T19:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/rc-stryker-maiden-flight\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:16:12","slug":"rc-stryker-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/24\/rc-stryker-maiden-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"RC Stryker Maiden Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With winds gusting to 15mph, I took my new R\/C plane, the Stryker, out for its maiden flight. If you&#8217;ve been following the build log (part 1 and part 2), you already know that it&#8217;s outfitted with a Tower Pro 2409-12 motor, a Blue Arrow 30A ESC, an 8-cell NiMH battery (9.6V), and a 7&#215;6 slow flyer prop. The maiden results are in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flights: <b>3<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Aileron Rolls: <b>2<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Split S&#8217;s: <b>1<\/b> (accidental)<\/li>\n<li>Immelmans: <b>1<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Landings: <b>3<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Crashes: <b>0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am very pleased with the results. The plane flies fast and responsive. Only a few clicks of right trim were needed on takeoff for level flight. The glide ratio is exactly perfect for slow, controlled, short runway landings. I am very impressed with this plane. Even with my wimpy 8-cell NiMH battery, it seems to fly around 50mph in the flats. I think when I go to LiPo, it&#8217;ll be closer to 70mph. The final speed upgrade will be a 7&#215;7 prop, and that should put me right at 80mph. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of the takeoff (you can tell how windy it is by my hair blowing straight up and back):<embed \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/Fe_Vz_a1Vfg\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/Fe_Vz_a1Vfg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of some aerobatics during the first flight. It starts with the first roll this plane has even performed, which turned into more of a Split-S since the ailerons were on low rates (50% travel):<embed \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/wqAD7IqGTuk\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/wqAD7IqGTuk\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And finally the landing. I bobbled a little on the approach, but the touchdown was nice and smooth. I love belly-scraping planes like this. They land so much better than geared planes on uneven terrain:<embed \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/XHoIJBzu-K0\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/v\/XHoIJBzu-K0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I was pretty nervous flying this plane for the first time, but I&#8217;m not nearly so afraid of repairing this plane as my Formosa, since it&#8217;s all one piece of foam. Hopefully I won&#8217;t have to find out how hard it is to repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With winds gusting to 15mph, I took my new R\/C plane, the Stryker, out for its maiden flight. If you&#8217;ve been following the build log (part 1 and part 2), you already know that it&#8217;s outfitted with a Tower Pro 2409-12 motor, a Blue Arrow 30A ESC, an 8-cell NiMH battery (9.6V), and a 7&#215;6 [&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-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","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=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}