Did you move the elevator and rudder? From the picture it looks like you moved the servos and possibly changed to elevons behind the reindeer?

 

Mark this looks to cool!! I can't wait to see it fly!! Santa hovering by the Christmas Tree

Chris

 

It be kinda cool if you could put one Red led on the nose on one of those reindeer

 

Hi folks,
I could not exactly call it a successful weekend, my first try of getting Santa airborne was last Sunday with an underpowered outrunner, so I could only fly straight and level, and landed straight ahead, as I felt that the craft was barely hanging in on there, but by the standards of the Wright brothers it surely must have counted! (as I flew it for at least over a hundred feet straight and level! )
So off to the house to find a bigger motor, but by the time I had that installed it was already dark outside...Monday all day at work, so no time, Today Tuesday, with nice freezing weather and some sunshine I went out again with my 9 year old son who is holding the (iPhone)camera.

What can I say? The good: it flew (3 flights!) The bad: the all ended with CFIT (well UCFIT to be more specific).

The motor used was a Turnigy 1900kV outrunner, prop 8x3.8 which made a heck of a torque, but since the A/C was built HEAVY (when I first made it I had no intention to fly it, since I did the "original" Santasled (without Santa himself on it) that I found on the Phlatprinter DVD #III, before the Christmas show by Mark and Trish was aired, with an updated Santa)

The rudder works super for yawing it around to turn (hardly any roll induced) but the aileron part of the elevons was way way way sensitive (even with the 50% expo I had set)
Pitch control was fine as well.
The CG was about abeam 2/3 of the length of the belly of the aft Rendeer, which was achieved by putting a hefty 1800mAh 3 cel LiPo on top of the motor stick, extending as far forward as possible, (so it even almost touched the prop...)(I would have liked it to be a little more forward, but this was the best I settled for, as the thing was already so heavy, so I did not want to add any(more) ballast weight to it)

The second and third flight ended when the A/C rolled over suddenly, and I did not have the altitude to correct it in time...Surprisingly the damage in all the crashes was more or less only cosmetic (lost some rendeerparts, legs, antlers and such) but on flight#3 the prop broke (despite the prop saver :? ;-( ) and unfortunately no more spare props...(in fact I took this last one off of my SilverSurfer, so he is out of commission for the time as well...)

Anyway, it was great fun while it lasted! I'm thinking shall I rebuild it lighter, or make a 50% copy, or go on with the next project, or go on with the ongoing project...So much foam so little time...

Well ther'ya go, the footage of the first flight (the whole minute it lasted anyway ) of today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrkKfuWsNtg

Seasons greetings!

Martin

 

That was funny!!!
Great editing and music too!

 

Here's a picture of mine. My daughter assisted with painting. I almost hate to put it up in the air this weekend - but I will... :mrgreen:

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I never replied to this. Santa flew great as long as you didn't need to turn :mrgreen: ... He made it back with his sleigh, but unfortunately all of the rheindeer were lost in the crash...

Greg

 

I now this is an old thread but want to build on. Any PDF or other plans