Located in Santa Barbara, California. Avid enthusiast of R/C slope soaring aerobatics. Designer of the Le Fish slope aerobatics glider. Curator of SlopeAerobatics.com
Yes, I use colored electrical tape approximately 1/2" / 12mm wide along the leading edge of the wings, horizontal stabilizer, and vertical stabilizer / rudder. Definitely helps with durability, is easy to apply, and adds very little weight.
That was cool kind of like a sideways poptop... Are you still flying? I am in Cali and it is a bucket list RC dream at this point to slope soar. I have a few planes that I'm ready to Chuck off a cliff but being in the desert I'm not looking forward to the landing so I am in search of a perfect spot? Any suggestions? Hope to see you do some ripping again! ✌️😎👍 Thanks!
I need this lol! Is that a fish? Do you remember people using the thick 3d foamy profile planes to do slope 3d or ultrabatics? There was a lot of videos of them back in the day but I can't find them now. I just built a edge 540 epp foamy 3d plane I plan to slope, have you seen this done or done it yourself? Thanks...
Can anyone tell me the name of the move at 1:22, along with the control surface aspects needed to pull it off and maybe a tutorial on how to do it?!! Incredible!
It's simply called a "Flip", in this case, an upright or positive G flip (as compared to if you pushed the nose forward to make it an inverted or negative G flip). These moves are made possible by a so-called "Mad Stab" or "mad stabilizer,' which is a design feature involving a fully flying horizontal stabilizer capable of 180 degrees of rotation. The Mad Stab and this style of flying incorporating flips was pioneered by French pilot and model designer Benoit Paysant-Le Roux in the late 90s in the Normandie and Bretagne areas of France via a model he created called the Madslide. You can find lots and LOTS more videos showing this kind of flying on my RU-vid channel, as well as my website slopeaerobatics.com. There's too much to discuss via YT comment alone, but that should be enough to get you started.
@@surfimp Fantastic info! Thanks heaps for that. Looking back I can see the stab in a position I've not seen one ever before... Truly mad. Thanks heaps for the detailed reply and for pointing me to your channel.
That's cool! I wonder what DS would be like FPV 🤔 it probably be like tree branches going through a shredder 🤦♂️ lol! Are you the guy that flies a Le Fish?
@@surfimp Lol, even better but I knew there was a connection to surfimp and Le Fish. Can it still be purchased? I have a buddy that flies one, it's awesome and he loves it!
That did my head in watching the flap/aileron mixed with the wingeron. Would like to see the elevator linkage giving madstab both ways. Testing my Le Fish currently with flying tail the same but struggling to get full deflection both ways. Nice!
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TPzYLRajLeA.html A nice plane to fly, I can't find seaside slope like this, so I add power to it,to become a 3D model which can soar in thermal
Glad to see ya thumbing some gimbals Steve. Can't let all those awesome piloting skills fade away. Hope you and the rest of the sb slopers are enjoying the lift.
It's a type of a flip trick. The plane is flipped in the negative G direction (nose down) and the wingerons are kicked at the same moment to cause the plane to go to knife edge position, giving the impression that the plane is flipping around its wing axis. These moves are made possible because the glider has an elevator that is capable of 90+/- rotation, as well as wingerons that are capable of a significant amount of travel. I.e. these moves are not typically possible with "normal" slope gliders. If you playback at 0.25 speed, you can clearly see the control surface deflections.
Nice flying..........Must be mega lightweight like the indoor flying models... No profile ?.... I must be getting older, in the fact that I'm actually really enjoying watching slower flying models.
