Needless to say I’ve been having a lot of fun with my new plane. I’ve gotten a little more confident in my flying abilities, so I’ve begun trying out some tricks. I have no real idea how to do any actual tricks other than doing a bunch of loops but today I tried flying upside down. Now I don’t believe this plane is designed to fly inverted – one, because it doesn’t do it very well, and two because I haven’t seen anyone else mention ever trying to do it. Since it has no ailerons, it’s almost impossible to achieve this unless it’s by means of just coming out of a loop too soon, which is what I tried doing. I’d fly the plane nice and high, then when I go into the loop, at the top of the loop I throw the stick all the way forward, the elevator forces the plane to come out of the loop while its inverted, and then with some control, but not much, I’m able to fly around inverted for a few seconds. Some of the longest inverted flights I’ve had were when I was out by myself with no camera around. But wow it felt cool! And as far as I can tell there’s only two ways to come out of the inverted flight, and that’s by throwing the rudder all the way to either side and eventually the plane just straightens itself out, or by throwing the elevator back down which basically throws the plane downward finishing off the rest of the loop that was started earlier. The problem I have is the plane gradually decends while inverted even with the elevator all the way up, so maybe it’s time to move the servo linkage to one of the other holes to give me a bit more movement. I believe the reason this plane isn’t designed to fly this way is due to the shape of the wing, it’s not symmetric, so it’s always creating an upward lift all the time (so when it’s upside down the air above the wing is pushing the plane down, into the ground, with only the elevator to counteract it). That’s my lame attempt to explain it. I think I need a new plane…<\/p>\n
So this is the video me trying several attempts to fly inverted, with some loops and random crazy flying around thrown in. Not to mention the sweet tunes in the background. Yes, RAD is one of my all-time favorite movies, and it just so happened that this song was the exact length of the video clip, so I had to use it. Just imagine Crew Jones and that chick from Full House hopping around on their BMX’s at that cool dance while you watch the Super Cub do its own set of rad tricks.<\/p>\n