CHELLIE

Hi Everyone Here I am Again, Building another Plane, I Dont know why I have pleanty of airplanes to play with Ok, this will be a Scratch build Funjet, made from 9mm Depron, 6mm Depron and Balsa, it will be powered by a HXT 2835 2700kv inrunner, with a 50 amp esc, 6x4 APC prop, and a 3 cell 2350mah Lipo, the body will be a full body, the wing will be a flat bottom 9mm Depron, with a little airfoil built/sanded into the top, the rudders are 6mm, and the elevons will be a formed Balsa, Hopefully it will look something like the Funjet picture here, wish me luck, Take care, Chellie

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LOL , yes it is a heavy motor, I just have it laying around here, so i thought i would use it in Something I was looking at the 1800kv motor too, Kosh uses it alot, and I would love to give it a try, with a 1300mah 3 cell, here is the motor, Darn, they are still out of stock on this motor, oh well, I saw a video that Kosh had, and I asked Kosh what motor he was using, as the plane was on the larger side, and it was really going fast, I was surprised that it was a small motor, pushing a larger plane so fast, Take care, Chellie

http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/s...ss_Micro_Motor

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Hi Everyone Its me Again I got a little more done to the FunJet, Its starting to look very nice after I glued up every thing, It Weighs 7oz Yea, just need to install the electronics and do some color trim work to it, here are some more pics, Enjoy, Chellie

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Thank you Captain for the complements I hope it flies well, Take care, Chellie

Hi Ben D Wing Thank you for the complement I am just going to add some strips of color tape for looks, The Extra weight may be the 3/8" wood dowel i used for the wing support, I did not have any 8MM CF Tube, so i used a piece of wood, If I remember right, it was only 1 oz, but i think the epoxy i used with the wood support added more weight, I used 9mm depron, so its a little heavier too, I built this one, because i wanted a FunJet Trainer, i still dont feel comfortable with my original FunJet, its just me, It does not fly like my wing does or a delta does, it has its own Style, that i need to get used to

Thank You Thats Going to be the Hard Part I will do my best to get some plans up, after I fly this thing to see how well it does Take Care, Chellie

Hi WAR Thank you, Yes your right, I have the stuff to make a hot wire cutter, if this one turns out well, I will make one with a better airfoil to it, Take care, Chellie

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Hi B1bman Its nice to hear from you again, Thank you for the complements, where have you been hidding at Nice job on your FunJet, I dont think I will fly that fast, where i rip the wings off Good luck to you on you Build, Take care, Chellie

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War, You can hijack my thread anytime you want to and that goes for others too it just makes things more interesting IMHO, Take care, Chellie

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Hi Its only 10:40 PM here

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Hi Everyone Its Done Yea, I put in a 2408-21 TP motor for now in it to test it with, I need another 40 amp ESC, for the 2835 motor, so it will get a BP21 for now, I cut a 7x6 SF prop down to a 6x6, and I am using a 1300mah 3 cell lipo 20C, with a 30 amp esc, 2- 9 gram HXT 9 gram servos, The AUW is 16.9 oz , Not to Shabby the motor draws 14 amp WOT, and 155 Watts Static, but that should unload in the Air a Little, I Hope Wish me luck, it will be maidened today, here are some finish pics, Enjoy, Chellie

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Hi Ben The maiden went good and bad it flew, but i messed up

Hi Ideal It flew, but it was not my day




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Dang Stupid Pole got me today I maidened my Scratch built fun jet, on the first try, too much down thrust, the jet nosed in, very little damage, corrected the thrust, gave it a little up thrust, and it flew, but the CG was off, a little tail heavy, I had my hands full, but got it into a nice landing glide, left to right, Forgot about the Stupid poles that are on the right side of the field and thump, wing hit the pole, if fell down and snaped the fuse in half, and the motor burned up, nice smoke Oh well, it did fly new 2408-21 motor on order and some more props, oh yea, i broke a prop too thats my second time hitting a pole, it will fly again, just need to glue the fuse back together, and patch a small section in the wing, and it will be ready for battle again Take care, Chellie

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I just dialed some in with the radio the tappered jet pipe is a styrofoam cup, that I cut out the bottom and leanth, and hot glued in place, Take care, Chellie

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I had my Hands full and I got it in a nice landing pattern, then tumb Oh well, about 1 hr work and it will be fine again, its not that bad
I am going to try to make an adjustable motor mount, so I can get a fine adjustment on the motor thrust, something like the original Funjet comes with, that should help alot, its almost there, besides, these planes fly better after a mishap I used some acrylic paint to paint the motor cone with, just used a paint brush to add the color with, anyway it flies, and it was fast 2 new motors on order and some more props, Take care, Chellie

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Hi Starcad, Hi Crashalott it will be back up in the air this weekend My Planes Die a Long, slow, death, when they are to heavy from repairs, then they are retired to the round file, Take care, Chellie

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Hi Frank its my 3rd full fuselage I built a DR1, it has not been flown yet, soon, and a f111, that one I threw out, it was made from foam Board and the swing wings were to weak on it, but i gained a lot of practice making it Take care, Chellie

http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/show...&highlight=dr1

http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/show...highlight=f111

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Hi Everyone Its Alive The FunJet Flies Great, had some motor thrust issues and CG issues with it at first, but got that worked out, it likes 0 thrust angle, and The CG is just a little forwards of the stock Funjet, We flew it with a 2408-21 to test the airframe with, before i put the 2835 2700kv motor in it, with a 6x4 prop and a 2000 mah lipo, I want to thank Jessie & Charlie ( Both are Hot shot Pilots ) for helping me to make this video, Jessie was flying the FunJet & Charlie Launched it, Thanks Guys
Enjoy the Video, Chellie

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Hi Frank Thank you for the complements yea, the guys at the flying field want me to make some kits Now They loved this FJ , Take care, Chellie

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Morgan Freeman owed me a Favor, so he came over to Launch my planes for me Take care, Chellie

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Hi Everyone Ok I Finally got around to making some plans for this funJet, the fuselage can be tappered/ rounded off / Shaped anyway that you like at the canopy area, I gave the basic shape to the fuselage, the slot for the basswood brace has to go all the way through the wing, use some 2" fiberglass strapping tape from wing tip to wing tip, top and bottom, put the tape on one side first, turn the wing around and epoxy the basswood or cf to the wing, then add the strapping tape to cover the spar, and seal the stinky epoxy fumes in LOL cut out areas for the servos to make them sit flush on there sides, and hot glue them in, Take care and have fun, Chellie

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CG Location, on mine the CG is 17" back from the nose, or 1" behind the front leading edge of the wing where it starts to tappers/turn at going towards the fuselage.

Ben D wing

Hi Chellie, it's been a while, but thanks for posting the plans, they're looking very good. I don't think I'll build a full-size one, but I might make a smaller version based on yours if you don't mind. I won't start the build for a few weeks due to the festive season, but as and when I do, I'll start a new thread.
Thanks again for the plans and I wish you and everyone else at WattFlyer a very merry xmas and a prosperous (crash free) new year. Cheers!!

BDW.

CHELLIE

Hi Ben Thats what the plans are there for so anyone can scratch build a jet it flies great too, I made this scratch built FJ because I was having a little trouble getting acuainted with the way a FJ flies, the nose sticks way out there, and when you make a flat turn, the nose really drops a lot on these jets, I did not want to fly my MP funjet and wreck it , so I made a FJ trainer to learn with, the FJ flies much different than a reg plane or a wing does IMHO, so i needed to learn to fly this jet, I learned that if you go up before you turn thats the secret to a nice turn, or do a Split S or Immelmann turn, but a flat /horizonal turn will make your blood boil as the jet wants to dip hard down with a big 4 cell lipo in it Happy Holidays to you and yours &
Take care and have fun, Chellie

Crashalott

Hi Chellie,
With the motor mounted in the back, did you extend the motor wires or the Battery wires?
Also how did you mount the motor?
If you used a stick mt. how did you mount the stick?
Did you glue it to the wing?

AirmanAirhead

So the rain finally stopped and I got to maiden my version of Chellie's FunJet. As you can see by the photo I made a major error in building this. As careful as I was in reading the plans, I made the fuselage at the canopy 4" wide instead of 2" wide! Don't ask me how I did that. I still don't know!

So I started out with a glide test to double check my CG. The last thing I want is a tail heavy on a maiden flight, or any flight for that matter. I've learned that the hard way. So the glide test revealed I was VERY nose heavy. So I slid the battery back, I ended up needing to do this a couple of times. Finally I felt I was ready to go for it, I did some powered on launches and was STILL nose heavy. Finally I got it, and she flew!

Flew pretty much like I expected, very fast glide rate, gotta watch the turns and keep the nose high. Since I had to slide the battery back so far, I need to redo my velcro system to get the battery stabilized better.

For the maiden I stayed with my tried and true 2200 KV Turnegy motor off my F-22, that motor has flown for over a year without fail, so I thought it would be good to use a motor that is used to flying and not crashing. Seemed to work well.

So now I gotta debate and see if I go with a higher KV motor as suggested. This plane is clearly for FAST, not to gently cruise around like you can with an F-22.

Anyway. Chellie thanks for the plans, thanks for the help. So far so good.

Jeff

kenchiroalpha

Hi Jeff
First off i think she looks marvelous very nice
Congratulations on the maiden, thats wonderful news
May she bring you much joy in the years to come
Take care dear friend
Yours Hank

AirmanAirhead

Thanks Hank. I gotta get a few more flights in on this to iron things out, but so far so good. She does come in fast, one would expect that.

Jeff

CHELLIE

Glad you got it flying If it wants to torque roll to the left when hand launching, add a big finish nail into the right wing to give it a little more weight, it helps a lot, just push the nail into the wing, from the tip in, hope that helps, Chellie