6:55 might be the best thing on RU-vid. Flying with family is great. Always makes me smile to see your kids flying with you. They are little now, but give them a few more years and I bet they are going to be some serious competitors.
Wow, I think I am in love! That flies like an absolute dream. While some of that will be down to your expert trimming skills, it is obviously a fantastic design.
I got similar results with my crow, but I cannot take it to any flying site due to the COVD-19. I am very happy with my crow and I recommend a super Cat's Meow or a Sweepette if you are really serious about F1N
This thing is the easiest indoor glider I've ever flown. I can confirm that I tried to kill it in every terrible launch I could think of and it always recovered. Its sink rate is slightly higher than the Cat's Meow, but its easier to get a slightly higher launch with it than with a flapped glider. The Cat's meow did between 1 and 3 seconds better, but that was with me launching the Crow. With a competent launcher, both could get a few more seconds. We had lots of fun with this thing!
Funny thing... my brother Bruce built one similar to this more than a month ago as a catapult glider- we’ve yet to have video and publish it. It is nice indeed! Great video, Josh! 👍😀
Try to launch sideways ....in same pattern ,actually you are launching straight up 80 degress...try same launch for 180 degree at you waist level...will create lot of difference.
How well balanced is that@ awesome Joshua! Just imagine if u caught a thermal! U'd be getting sore necks waiting for it to come down!! Love the slowmo! It just sat there !👍👍👍👍👍😊😊
WOAH. it is so perfect it's almost unbelievable. I want to build one with foam plate... I know it is not the same at all, but I have nothing to lose (I may get into that 12-15g range but it will destroy at the first launch) hihi
@@joshuawfinn will the airfoil shown in the polish PDF instructions work? it is kinda "suggested", with no major details (just a cross section)... or is it a specific, well-known one? sorry bout the headache I might cause with my english :D greetings from a fan from Argentina!
@@habbi1974 yeah if you can replicate that airfoil it will work wonderfully. I need to ask Mariusz which airfoil it is. I think it's an F1A section designed for zoom launches.
Waaah! The tailboom broke on throw number 2. The first flight looked like Josh's (sorta-kinda), but it suddenly put its nose up and stopped flying and spun in.
@@joshuawfinn It wasn't the nose-in, it broke as I threw it. I imagined I was emulating you, but in reality, I'm a lot older, my shoulders don't have a lot of range, and I don't throw things in general with any accuracy. So as I spasmodically jerked my arm forward I overpowered the very light tailboom. I bought a couple of carbon fiber tailbooms when I purchased the kit in some kind of prescient fugue...I have no use or plan for them. Until now. Excellent idea about the earplug.
Hi Joshua, Many years ago I built a chunk glider called zuiback or something close. It was in a magazine. Everything was sharp angles with the airfoil a flat sand in thirds. No rounding. 15” wingspan, 5” center sections with 2.5” tips. Very simple. It was so easy to trim and I actually had a ten minute flute with a thermal over a central Florida ball field. Have you ever run across anything similar?
Oh yes. Probably my best (and worst) was hand launching a tiny 8" glider and watching it disappear directly overhead 7 odd minutes later. It never drifted throughout the observed flight. Just kept climbing higher and higher straight up. Another time I launched a peanut scale Goon racer into a thermal and it landed less than 100 yds away--almost 16 minutes later!
Oh yes. Probably my best (and worst) was hand launching a tiny 8" glider and watching it disappear directly overhead 7 odd minutes later. It never drifted throughout the observed flight. Just kept climbing higher and higher straight up. Another time I launched a peanut scale Goon racer into a thermal and it landed less than 100 yds away--almost 16 minutes later!
Creo que es muy lindo los videos y te enseña a corregir todos los errores que el modelo pueda presentar en verdad 👍 sos un genio entusiasta del hobby te felicito co lega te aprecio un montón y te sigo en cada video que sacas mucho éxitos
Plans used to be available however this model is extremely difficult to scratch build because the wing airfoil is very detailed and requires at minimum a high quality hotwire cutting rig, preferably a CNC hotwire.
I should add, there are several models that are suitable for scratch building such as Mikhail Yashinskiy's designs as well as the various flapped F1N designs from Serbia and Poland.
