Flightpoint Maverick 1.5m F5K KIT introduction
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- Опубліковано 7 лис 2022
- Flightpoint Maverick 1.5m F5K KIT introduction. Setup and flight videos coming soon.
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Building a laser cut kit like this one is a real joy. I've done two 2m sailplane kits built with this technique and they go together quickly and make clean, light airplanes. Both are excellent fliers. I look forward to seeing yours fly!
Flightpoint is excellent. Best ever customer service.
How they manage to keep pushing through, the war, is amazing. 💪👍
Yes, amazing effort from FlighPoint
Hi Andrew,
The Maverick appears to be a good value powered glider. Looking forward to the build videos. You and Virginia stay safe.
Thanks 👍
have built from plans for over 55 years, go slowly, do dry fits and check everything is in right place at least twice then add glue and all should be good. Was told this by owner of local model shop when I bought my first set of plans and have built that way ever since. Laser cut parts have been a great help these days as I wasted lots of wood hand making all the parts back in the early days of my building. Most importantly enjoy the experience.
I'm heading to your hemisphere in a few days. Finally being reunited with my flying gear. I had to leave Thailand quickly due to the pandemic, and all my gear was left behind. A brand new Taranis x9d radio (remember those?😁) and a motor glider nearing completion. Lots of motors, receivers, balsa,foam board, hardware etc. Can't wait to be flying and building again !!
Welcome back!
Wow that must have been rough! I’d miss my stuff
Looking forward to seeing how you get on with this one 👍
This looks like it will be massive fun.
I have started to build this model, with the help of Nick Chitty. the kit is high quality, laser cutting is excellent, and parts fit together very well. I look forward to see how you get along with it, also how you go about setting up the model.
Excellent Mel. Going well so far
Looks a very nice plane to me. I enjoyed building these laser kits very much, nice fit of components and good performance at the end. Enjoy your build!
Many thanks!
It’s a great kit I hope to post covering and installation next few days ❤
Get to work
@@thenatedog yes if people stopped using Qtips 😂😂😂
@@NickChittyFlying fortunately you can't share pictures here....gross
@@thenatedog but you can view my clinic channel 🤜😀
The ears of Devon can wait, we need to see your videos. Great work Nick.
Nice, I have been dabbling into the balsa lately, I have been attempting to build my own balsa gliders from plans I retrieved from the net. Very time consuming.
At least this one is a kit. You should have this done in an hour or so..🤨..
This should fly well, can't wait.
Yes! Wicked. This is gonna be great.
What an awesome project. Been following Nick Chitty's projects and experiments since last year.
Expect you might be able to call out to Allen Moore if run into a build hurtle. Look forward to seeing this if the Maverick can slope? Suspect it can.
Allens tips are already helping
Great stuff Andrew, I have one of these kits on the way also, but will make mine into the slope version, no motor or prop.
Same here AC. I'll use it as a sloper way more than a powered version.
Wood planes are fun to build and fly. They do fly better, but they do take a while to build. I love building so it’s all fun for me :)
That's the way I needed to get an RC plane when I started building Aircraft models... There were no prebuilt or foamies +50 years ago... You'll enjoy flying some thing you actually built with your own hands...
After your cardboard box airplane builds, the world has learned that the strongest form of cardboard is a triangle
Haha, Pythagorus might argue the point
this shit keeps you young ! I'm sick of foam. I just got back from 750K round trip to buy 3mm Baltic birch laser ply . mega rare and hard to find! I'm going to try my first scratch build! )
Nice one. What are you building?
@@AndrewNewton I'm thinking a motor glider (tractor drive), high aspect ratio and wide. like 96"ish. I think I will cover it with that dollar tree foam board? Not sure what airfoil I should use.
Whah-hoo.... looking forward to seeing this beautiful thing come together! .....not so sure about about those cheeky subscribe bird friends of yours 😎
They would shred a model like this!
❤️🇺🇦
It looks very nice. Just a general (grumpy, ranting!) point regarding aerofoils, peeps: no matter how carefully made, a model's finished wing's performance figures will bear little resemblance to the data that the aerofoil's designer spent so much time and effort creating.
Air molecules are air molecules, and the scale of a model's flying surfaces compared to those of a full-sized aircraft make the ultra-precise following of plotted points pretty meaningless.
Stick your plane's wing in a laboratory and compare its performance figures to those of the original design and they won't even be close. You'll have made a great wing, but it'll have a completely different set of lift and drag figures.
CAD software is certainly fun to use, and the lists of Reynold's numbers and whatnot look very impressive, but unless the wing's machined from metal and finished to a tolerance of 0.01 microns or better, worrying about exactly what aerofoil you're using simply isn't necessary.
A quick sketch of something that looks about right will be just as good, because it's not possible for a bod in a shed to build and finish a wing accurately enough for anything else to matter. By the time it's sanded, covered and ready to fly, the beautiful (mmmm, laser-cut...) profile won't be anything like the big-name official aerofoil it's based on.
By which I mean on a molecular level, which is all that really counts.
Even an all-composite pre-preg epoxy-carbon wing vacuum-formed from machined steel moulds and cooked in an autoclave will vary from the original theoretical design specification. It'll look fantastic and be light and immensely strong, but where it touches the air it'll create its own unique set of performance data, so why worry about coordinates? You might as well just relax and draw your own aerofoils.
If it looks about the same as the one in the book, it'll be perfectly acceptable. There are hundreds of thousands of sections designed for thousands of different tasks, which means that there are hundreds of millions of viable aerofoil choices, which means that they ALL work. Yep. Every single one is great. For something.
So... what's my point? Well, it's that anything goes. The various broad styles DO make a difference, so there's no harm in experimenting with chord, thickness, camber, undercamber, and so on, but there's no need to get obsessive about slavishly following someone's sets of figures.
You won't be able to recreate them with enough precision for it to matter in the real world, and a simple hand-drawn section of whatever flavour you prefer will be a lot less hassle to produce.
Air is weird stuff. Whether the wings passing through it belong to a mosquito [the tiny flying insect], a ¼-scale Mosquito [the WW2 aircraft] or a full-sized Mosquito fighter-bomber big enough to carry men and moustaches, it laughs at CAD coordinates.
Just build something light and strong. If you want options, add variable camber. Shine a bright inspection lamp into the 'official, recognised, patented' aerofoil rabbit hole, but don't go down it. 🐇👀 That way lies madness.
"That way lies madness" What a great line. Might have to use it more often
Well, I’m not sure what your qualifications are to tell us all this, but I think I agree. I’ve made quite a few foamboard wings (thanks Andrew!) to approximate airfoils and they perform differently, but probably just as well as commercial models. I suspect the rigidity of the construction may be a bigger factor?
$197?.. I'll pass on that one thanks. Looks good though
unfortunately they offer credit card payment only and no paypal which means all risks are on our side once you have paid and that is a total mess compared to the paypal service considering that the Ukraine is at war and supply chain to and from them is broken from time to time at least the industrial parts and areas that have supplied our car assembly lines till spring.
And the free shipping also will end up in quite high customs and vat bills at your door . It is even quite cheaper to buy from the UK incl. paypal service than from the Ukraine at least compared to my last order from vintage model back in 2021 . I hope it will flly great at least cause for me it looks quite expensive. I had assumed the 197$ had been australian USD the reason for me to visit the website but US $ is simply too much. Even domestic kits from inside the EU are cheaper than this offer quite a lot even though I have to pay for shipping.
Will watch the next part for sure but will not get one cause I do not want the risks involved in a credit card payment and a lot of the implications and complications we had faced when we had invested in the Ukraine back then. Considering that everything there is different we had to overpay too often and without paypal not worth the risks involved. Sad but true.
Oh, a real model, at last...I bet that triangular box is flying before the contents is.....lol ..😏😏😏🇬🇧
Haha. I'm sneezing with balsa dust
@@AndrewNewton Consider yourself lucky you don't have to cut your ribs out with an old razor blade....😏😏😏🇬🇧
Hahahahha yep 😅
Looks like a great build, look forward to the build videos 🫡
Thanks 👍