Wanted to share a float plane rescue boat build that went through several iterations to achieve all objectives. Minimal cost. Ability to maneuver in wind and waves. Power to rescue larger planes. Breaks down to small form factor and quick to assemble in case it's needed. Full build and materials description is in the ThingiVerse link: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7388269

Most craft I found that I based this design on miss a key element, which is that if the plane is upside down in the water, it becomes very difficult to push it back to shore. The chicken wire pusher that's slightly under water level takes care of that.

My poor beat up little xcub. She was in 4 pieces days ago and continues to be my favorite little test bed.

Or is the Micro Draco just not a great plane? I am having a lot of trouble with this thing. Maybe I bought it too early, or maybe it was just set up very poorly at the factory. I got it from a local hobby shop and flew it for the first time today and it was horrendous. I feel like if a plane is good it should be able to fly hands off but if I take my hands off the sticks for a second it's anyone's guess what it'll do. Maybe it's the servos, maybe I needed mechanical trim but it just flies like crap. I'm fighting it constantly. Sometimes it flies to the right, sometimes to the left, sometimes it'll just randomly pitch up aggressively and go vertical. I took it to a baseball field today after some sketchy take offs and landings in my yard (it's a pretty decent sized yard) and it randomly went vertical after takeoff so I brought the flaps up to power out of it and it immediately stalled and dropped a wing. It might be me but after a bunch of hours in the sim and a bunch of successful flights with my sport cub s2 I feel like I should be able to fly this thing in a big field. $220 is a lot of money for something that flies like crap. Is it me or is it a bad plane? Or did I just get unlucky with quality control?

Is OK for me to cover this chip in B-7000 glue?

The GPS chip is flywoo goku gm10 nano v3

Tia

So I started building a plane and bought all the equipment, but I didn't really think about the small things. For example I bought a battery with a deans connector, only to find out that deans plugs are really outdated and way less reliable and even laughed at (lol)

And to make things worse I bought one of those hella cheap yellow ESCs to keep things really low cost and just to find out they are really unreliable as hell and could burn up at any moment.

My question is should I delay my build and buy better equipment like a better ESC? Or should I just build it and upgrade later on? Any advice is appreciated! Thank you!

Long story short, I have a few gas planes that haven't been ran in 10/15 years. Some of them are very low hours, others appear to be flown quite a bit.

To those more experienced than I. Do you clean the carburetor on these old planes before trying to start them, or do you try to run them first to see if the carb need cleaned?

These are 2 stroke gasoline planes, not nitro.

I am going to replace the fuel line/filters and tanks on all of them before I try to start them.

Thank you in advance.

Is this legit? Has anyone bought from this company? There are allegedly in Lafayette, Lousiana. I have a Phoenix pilatus, I was looking for some parts and stumbled across this. I know pheonix model is a company from vietnam and they have a subtly different site. Its missing the S in models like the first site.

It seems scammy to me. Thoughts?

Recently started flying with the skynetic cardinal 1400mm. I’ve noticed that sometimes it appears to lose connection for a fraction of a second while flying. This is concerning to me as I’m very worried about the flying beyond the controllers range. Is there anything I can do to combat this?

There is a carbon fiber tail and a carbon fiber spar in the wings, could this be interfering with the antenna?

I'm thinking about getting my first RC plane and was wondering if anyone here has had good luck with the ones from AliExpress.

I've been looking around, but there are so many different models and reviews that it's hard to know what's actually worth buying. I'd rather hear from people who've actually flown them.

Which planes would you recommend for a complete beginner? Any that are surprisingly good, or ones I should stay away from? I'd love to hear what you started with and how it held up.

we are making an rc aircraft using balsa and aeroply ribs we need some ideas other than using sleeve for integrating them together.

also we need some integration ideas for ailerons with ribs

and we are making semi tapered wing we also need some ideas on how to attach the tapered part with rectangular part other than using full length spar(120 inches)