{"id":66,"date":"2007-09-12T15:31:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T22:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/easy-glider-maiden-flight\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:16:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:16:12","slug":"easy-glider-maiden-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/easy-glider-maiden-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Glider maiden flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Easy Glider today, and took it out for its maiden flight. Here&#8217;s the setup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motor: Tower Pro 2908-10 brushless<\/li>\n<li>ESC: Tower Pro 30A<\/li>\n<li>Battery: Hextronik 2200mah 20C<\/li>\n<li>Prop: 9&#215;4.5 (will upgrade to a folding prop later)<\/li>\n<li>Servos: Hextronik 9g servos<\/li>\n<li>Radio: Spektrum DX6 with AR6000 receiver<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The plane took a little longer to build than expected, mostly because I ordered the non-electric version so I had to dig out lots of foam to accommodate my battery and motor. I had a hard time fitting all the servo cables under the canopy, so I flew without it the first time. Here&#8217;s what the plane looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmithfam.org\/albums\/easy_glider_maiden\/IMG_2316.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesmithfam.org\/albums\/easy_glider_maiden\/IMG_2316.sized.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmithfam.org\/albums\/easy_glider_maiden\/IMG_2317.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesmithfam.org\/albums\/easy_glider_maiden\/IMG_2317.sized.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I launched the plain, it flew up at about 45 degrees without any sign of slowing down. I was impressed. After an altitude of about 100 feet, I killed the motor to see how it would glide. I must have pulled back too much on the elevator, because the left wing stalled and it started to roll over. Experience taught me how to handle this, so I let the nose fall down to get some airspeed, and rolled out of the stall. Then, I decided to climb a bit, and that&#8217;s when the firewall tore loose of the foam. Fortunately, I had put a layer of packing tape over it to double secure it to the fuselage, so it didn&#8217;t fall out of the sky. I was able to pilot the plane down with no problem. Any maiden flight with a good landing is a good flight, and this was no exception. I came down with spoilerons, and I&#8217;m not sure I could have come down in time without them. I would have overshot my runway by a factor of about 3.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post some video later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Easy Glider today, and took it out for its maiden flight. Here&#8217;s the setup: Motor: Tower Pro 2908-10 brushless ESC: Tower Pro 30A Battery: Hextronik 2200mah 20C Prop: 9&#215;4.5 (will upgrade to a folding prop later) Servos: Hextronik 9g servos Radio: Spektrum DX6 with AR6000 receiver The plane took a little longer [&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-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc-planes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}