How I made a Radio Control Seagull

How I made a Radio Control Seagull basically made it up as i went along.
looking to try different control options
• Test Flight HORTEN -22...
Any suggestions comment below

[@AerialWaviator]

Excellent idea for a winging-it soaring bird series! Hopefully the local soaring birds approve. The possibilities are many for experimenting with ways to control. Keeping control methods simple and light will be the challenge.

[@kodibox2501]

Well done youtube, just got the notification about this 'new' video 3 days after I have already watched it. Not that I mind watching it again 😁👍

[@NickChittyFlying]

Yer I get notifications on my own videos 🤦🤣

[@tifosaurus]

The best way to tame and control swept flying wings with pointed wingtips and without fins, like this seagull model, is by building it "a la Horten": i.e. lots of washout and elevon in the outer wing. Together with the right balancing, it will fly right.

[@CeltauraMusic]

Wow amazing, Nick!

[@NickChittyFlying]

I will try use some of your music for test flight 😍

[@CeltauraMusic]

@@NickChittyFlying we'd be happy! 😍

[@IainEPaterson]

Looking at Andy Whitehead's print, it appears to be based on the 'Gull' oz6712 plan from Outerzone. If so ,as I'm sure you realise, the original (full wing section version) had separate ailerons and elevators and also a see-through vertical fin. Given your flat or kfm wing all that complication mightn't be necessary, although as @Tsnafu suggests having the horizontal stab directly behind the elevons might cause handling eccentricities 🙃🙂 🙃. I Had problems for that reason with a big foam pterodactyl I made years ago. Either way, will look forward to the maiden flight. BTW, whether you've decided on the African or European version and whether laden or unladen, make sure to take some Holy Hand Grenades of Antioch with you when venturing out for the maiden. Don't want you falling prey to any killer rabbits you come across on the dunes.

[@NickChittyFlying]

Is it pull the pin on 3 or 4 🤣😇

[@martincox4520]

Underground chickens please😊😊

[@migalito1955]

Cool beans, Nick.

[@NickChittyFlying]

Thanks

[@alfredvink]

The Bridge of death 🤣 classic reference !

[@NickChittyFlying]

After all the comments I am watching it again 🤣

[@Tammy-un3ql]

👍👍👌👌

[@justfellover]

You could grip it by the husk.

[@NickChittyFlying]

Hhahahahh

[@richardo212]

What you need is an Albatross mate!!!

[@NickChittyFlying]

🤣

[@Tsnafu]

I think you might struggle a bit with control, with elevon wings and a fixed horizontal stab trailing behind. I suspect forward stick might have you ballooning up with the control surfaces working more like flaps. If so, you'll need to add an elevator and go 3 channel. TBH, I think I'd start with that. I've seen A J Woodpiece (ajw61185 here on YT) use clear acrylic for near invisible vertical stabilisers on his builds, so that's something to consider too.

[@NickChittyFlying]

Yer mate all possible I just gunna have fun experimenting

[@Tsnafu]

You'll have to make an FT Swallow now Nick (African version obviously, as they can carry more weight)

[@NickChittyFlying]

Are you French 🤣

[@Tsnafu]

@@NickChittyFlying Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries

[@avman180]

If you make two you carry a coconut on a line held under the dorsal guiding feathers.

[@NickChittyFlying]

Yes mate you got 😍

[@Spicks96]

Maybe I need to bring my eagle down for a play 😉😉

[@NickChittyFlying]

Mine got damaged in the move 🥲

[@craigfield3228]

Its not a matter of how it grips it....

[@NickChittyFlying]

Hahah legend

[@jellybean288]

Laden or unladen

[@NickChittyFlying]

Hahahah glad you got it

[@mikewiechert8901]

FIRST