It seemed pretty strong with a shock cord that is glued in all around the periphery of the aircraft, plus meaty spars within the wing but in my (in)capable hands the high speed vertical dive into the ground was enough. It is a fast wing! The wing split in two places from the trailing edge all the way to the main spar and broke the shock cord. Not to worry; I have glue.
Frankenplane. It flies well. Until you don’t notice you’re out of battery and it’s being blown onto a hill by the wind. Yeah that was me today. I closed the throttle and watched it disappear into a hillside. One with trees. Many, many trees. And some more trees. Trees like the kind you stand next to the smallest ones of and they tower above you, so you can’t see anything.
Revised Frankenplane. Ditched the Hobbyking parafoil because no matter what I did or how I setup the lines it just didn’t want to fly. Looking through the forums it would appear that this is a common result. Great, but at least it was only 16 quid or thereabouts. I bought another parafoil . It doesn’t have any brake lines so I converted the machine to weight shift with the addition of a server saver bar (steering bar) to which the parafoil lines attached to (at the end of some thin steel cable.
After reading so many good things about the Crash Test Hobbies Expanded ppoly-Propylene (EPP) aircraft I decided to buy the Titan 58, which is a 58-inch (1.4m) flying wing. It seems pretty strong with a shock cord that is glued in all around the periphery of the aircraft, plus meaty spars within the wing. I hope so, the postage from the USA is as much as the wing itself. $64.99 for the wing and another $60 shipping.
