Got a chance to put a flight on the Cap today. Results are kinda of varied. I used the front wing tube position and it was pretty tail heavy here, which made the flight a Little iffy.
From what I could tell, it harriers great, tumbles like mad and flew precision surprisingly nice. It does the craziest waterfalls I've ever seen.
In knife edge it's got a fair amount of pitch coupling toward the belly, but I'm not going to do any mixing till I get the CG closer to correct.
Power is a 3W100 and is wayyy more then enough. Currently the plane is completely stock and weighs in at 27lbs minus the spinner and pilot, everything was used including the stock tube.
Carbon gear, tube and lighter wheels are going in it tomorrow which should be good for a 1.75lb weight reduction.
I used the new $40 hobbico digital servos.
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LXNRT1&P=0
These actually work surprisingly well, though not very fast they seem to center quite well. There are two on each aileron and two on the rudder along with one on each elevator.
I am going to replace the elevator servos with a higher quality, faster servo since it seemed they were either just too slow or allowing blowback. On the other surfaces they worked just fine, they may be replace at some point down the road though.
I was having issues with the motor and had two deadsticks. The second resulting in a landing that wasn't quite a greaser, but also not hard at all. The gear plate was knocked a bit loose and I couldn't continue flying the plane.
After doing some reading it seems this is a common problem. There was little to no glue on the vertical former that locks into the motorbox sides. Other people have experience this problem also.
Once I fix the gear, lighten the plane up a little bit and get the correct CG set I think this plane is going to be a great flyer.
I should have some pictures coming soon.