you are right, i made a mistake there

Copterdude This glider is from my own plan. If you want to DIY look up the plans for the MiMi DLG. otherwise buy a DLG glider. they all need final assbly. gluing, curting wiring etc but is 1/4 the effort of complete home build.

Actually, I have home built a lot of DLGs, and I think it's kind of fun to go through the whole process. Besides, it's a whole lot cheaper, and if it doesn't fly, you only have yourself to blame! Really nice build by the way. Very interesting design!

De romp is van een ouder competitie model, de rest zelf gebouwd. De glasvezel constructie van de vleugel is niet zo stijf als de gedeeltelijke carbon vleugel die ik hierna heb gebouwd. Dat was in de lanceer hoogte te merken.

sixeris I cut up some contacts found in a magnetic relay or contact points found in old cassette players, and weighted one end with a small piece of wire soldered to the backside of one contact that pulls the switch. Mounted it in a small plastic tube.

nee, werkt gewoon.

I will have to test to see if that argument is true for the Tarot. Ideally the tail will never use maximum pitch for just pirouetting, and the piro speed is determined by the agility setting in the gyro setup. The gyro sensor will measure the piro rate and adjust the tail blade angle to match the requested piro rate. If the firmware works different in the Tarot and it does indeed use a part of the maximum tail blade pitch to dirrive its piro speed your statement would be true. I found i get a better tail hold in transitions between upright and inverted when i get the tail set up in rate mode instead of exactly cantering the tailslider. Adding ~8 degrees of pitch in rate mode wont make the tail blow out at all, not even when you add even more pitch with the cyclic+collective to tail mix. The tail will only blow out if tailrotor thrust is not enough to cancel out the sideways airflow + main rotor torque. If you mean to say the blades might stall with to much pitch... that will come in to play somewhere above 20degrees in the worst case. If the air stream is with the tailrotor pitch the "angle of attack" the tailblade sees is lower and it will be able to cope with more static blade pitch before it starts stalling. (stalled blade = interrupted airstream over the blades, generating drag so it draws much more power from the tail drive system for only marginal more thrust generated)