Flyingwings Falcon EVO FPV

[Brucey]

Cool, glad your enjoying it!

[BlueFlyer]

Cool, glad your enjoying it!

Who on here is from flyingwings?

[Brucey]

Foamster. ... He just uses iPeel and I as guinea pigs!

[BlueFlyer]

I wish I was a guinea pig for them

I'm fairly sure at least 2 recent purchases of the Falcon Evo are directly attributed to my salesmanship lol

Seriously considering it's big brother now for a long haul beast.

[Brucey]

Yeah word of mouth and flying at meets works wonders.
Get a vent, you won't regret it!

[BlueFlyer]

I think I might try out my 2200kv motor on the Falcon, with a 6x4 prop... get a bit of speed on the go :)

[Brucey]

I'm running a 3000kv on 4s, goes quite nicely!

[iPeel]

I too have been out for a little jaunt this evening...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V2NgJXS8Z0

Not much harm done, I managed to eject the board cam and some repairs needed on the hatch.

[Billy_boy_2010]

Mine is coming along nicely. Have embedded all components and then laminated over the top.

Just need to mount the motor and then teach myself the entire use of eagle tree vector tomorrow so I can fly in the evening :s

[Billy_boy_2010]

When fixing the wing tips, has everyone followed the instructions and just taped them on?

Seems a little crude to me and perhaps a bit weak on landing? Unless it's intentional?

[Brucey]

I glue them on. Not keep on the tape either

[iPeel]

Seems a little crude to me and perhaps a bit weak on landing? Unless it's intentional?

That's the idea, if you crash then the winglet comes off rather than break the wing, but it's held on tight enough not to come off accidentally. Saying that I hot glue mine, if you do just make sure you rough the surface of the correx up a little before applying the glue.

[iwan_canobi]

Well just ordered one, will see how it compares to my initial version which I'm sure this is based on! :P

May put on the center fins on this as well, although not sure if it really makes any difference. Looks cool though! :D

Need to wait till I move house before I start the build though as my workshop is now packed up!

[Billy_boy_2010]

Had the maiden yesterday.

First flight was a bit tail heavy. This was with a 2200 up front, a vector and esc in the middle, and other components on each wing tip. It needed a fair bit of trim which surprised me.

Second flight I added a bit of nose weight which helped, and flew inverted to check CG. Handling seemed to deteriorate and, although there was a slight crosswind, she did seem twitchy and I landed her. On landing I realised my HD camera had fallen out :( the card alone was worth £50 and a similar amount for the xaiomi Yi camera :( I'm going to look for it today but doubt I will find it.

Anyway- I'm going to get a few 4000s and hopefully that will up the weight and improve the handling a bit. She did seem quite twitchy and didn't cope with the wind well, but this may be CG related.

I was also surprised to find the 30A esc quite warm, even though I'm using the efficiency motor. I may have to mount it outside of the hatch in future.

[jt]

On landing I realised my HD camera had fallen out :( the card alone was worth £50 and a similar amount for the xaiomi Yi camera :( I'm going to look for it today but doubt I will find it.

That's really bad luck :(, hope your search is successful for the cam, been there before.....