Wii wing

[Badlands]

Following on from G's awesome design I wanted to try to make a 'none blunt-nose' version of the Wii Wing.

The original Wii Wing needed weight on the nose to hit CG.
So I used an online wing CG calculator & moved the motor placement forward & added the pointy nose.
I then added modern central vertical stabilizers & smaller winglets.

All these parts are hand cut so they are not nice as G's laser cut kit but they will do.











After a few prototypes I built the final versions in white depron, painted & added stickers.






They are ALOT of fun to fly - because there is very little weight to them they crash well!  :-)

Here is a 'hat-cam' video to show them flying...

Next step......FPV them of course...    :-)

[beesleyboy]

Fly's fantastic but, loving the new design.
;) G

[pcnukem]

Love your new design, iv just built a 800 version of Gordon's Wii Wing, I love flying them. 
I had to put a 2200 battery on the front to get the COG correct and it needs a more powerful motor. I will post pics when I can find them.
Paul. 

[mrorange26]

What do people use as control rods on servos

[pcnukem]

Just use two pieces of wire bent to shape with a u shape in the middle to set the trim. I will take a couple of pics tomorrow and post them on here.

[mrorange26]

Ok thanks what gauge and where do u get it from.

[pcnukem]

sorry not sure what gauge it is.

[mrorange26]

Thanks

[pcnukem]

I was gonna put pics of its big brother, an 800mm version but haven't had time been out flying.  Will post them tomorrow.

[Badlands]

Do it!

:-)

[CurryKitten]

Just had a quick word with the boys on the engineering team working on the build.  They are working hard to have it ready for a maiden tomorrow, but have mentioned they've had to add 5g to the nose to hit the CG.  Sound about right ?

[Badlands]

Haha - great pic Wayne - I moved my lipo as far forward as possible & it still needed a little bit weight on the nose.

Your lipo looks further back because of the FPV gear so yea this looks good to go.


FPVing during the maiden? nice!

[CurryKitten]

Well, the little Wii Wing flew and (after sorting out my rates I wasn't aware of) it flew well - I loved it.  Then bad cows came and spoilt my day.  A cautionary tale

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I think I've found a better camera to use, I'll see if I can get hold of that and see if I can use the VTX half of the TX03 on it's own.

Sorry G, I didn't mean to mess up your lovely little wing

[beesleyboy]

Lol, "it looked great " santa will get you a nice new one soon. My first one had fpv gear on it, so it didn't need the extra whaght, perhaps I should tweek the design a little for LOS models.
G

[Badlands]

Cracking video Wayne.

Does that little Frsky rx allow you to set a failsafe? The one im using https://hobbyking.com/en_us/frsky-vd5m-2-4ghz-5ch-micro-receiver-telemetry-capable.html doesn't.

Also I think those servos will be fine on 5v - ive never had one fail yet.

Im liking your motor choice - ordered a few myself now.