Indoor Foamy Set up for Outdoor Flying

[ben_beyer]

Well, about a year ago, I bought an Insane Foamies Razorback. I've pulled it out and looked at it a few times, but I haven't done anything with it otherwise. I thought about putting it together, but I don't really have a place to fly it indoors and I'm not sure how much I'd be able to fly it outdoors if it's set up for flying indoors. So here's my plan, set it up as a light outdoor foamy.

I have an Axi 2208/34 and Eflite 20 amp ESC on hand, some Futaba 3114 servos, and TP 1320 3S packs. The packs are overkill, but I have them and just about anything other than a TP Pro-lite pack would weigh about the same unless I went with a smaller pack like a 730 or 910.

So what if I put it together and moved some things around like moving the elevator and/or rudder servo further back? Think it would work OK?

[3D-Seth]

If I were you, I would set it up with a Hacker A10 9L, or Hacker A20 34S, Eflite Park 300, Axi 2204/54, for a bit lighter than the 2208/34. Servos are okay, I would definitely downsize on the battery back too. With that set up, you are looking close to 11 oz or so, which is twice the weight it really should be for best performance (Thats like a 40% airplane weighing 80 lbs!). If you could, you may try to find something like a 350 or 480 mah 3 cell pack as well. I wouldn't want it to be much over 7 ounces otherwise its pretty much going to lose all the good characteristics, and turn them into bad ones.

What I would do balance wise, is put the motor/esc/aileron servo on first. Balance it, see where it falls, and how much. Then don't cut holes or anything yet, but lay your tail servos on the horizontal fuse and move them forward/backward until the airplane balances, then put them in there. Add your receiver, pushrods all that stuff, then add the battery at the end so it balances, which the battery should be placed fairly close to the CG if you balanced it with the tail servos.

This airplane won't fly in the wind much at all, but anything less than 8mph or so should be fine for it at 7oz, while still flying halfway decently.

My .02

Seth

[ben_beyer]

Cool, I'll admit your suggestions have crossed my mind as well. Well, except I was going to do a Hacker A20-50S.

[Airworks]

yeh , jsut build it for kinda an indoor setup but i wouldnt exceed 6.5oz ,equivilent park 300 area motor , 3cell 500 mah, 5 g servos, 10amp esc , and micro rx, if you build the way your talking youll be way way overweigth and youll rip the plane apart due to over loaded(wingload etc)

checkout my plane , its an indoor/outdoor foamie , did no changes for either, the one difference normally done for outdoor is just using a 3cell instead of a 2cell
post 10, page1 is a video of flyin outdoor , also vids of indoor in the thread also.take a look
http://www.flyinggiants.com/forums/f...tml#post684914

[Matchless]

Ben, that airframe is designed to be built to 4ozs, and the gear you have is for a 12-16oz foamy. No real compatibility there. Like Seth said, the servos should be ok, but your powersystem is really for something much bigger!

[mattman683]

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[ben_beyer]

I revisted this topic and I think I have a plan. I'll try a Scorpion 2205-40 motor (32 grams which is 12g more than a Hacker A10 L motor), Scorpion 11A ESC (9g), some 6 gram or less servos from China, 3 cell Rhino 360 maH LiPo, Spektrum park flyer RX. I may also try a little bigger (I.E. 500 maH) 2 cell LiPo. It'll come out a little heavier than an indoor set up, but I'm looking to add an ounce or so for outdoor flying.