Beautiful job with this. I love th3 Raptor in any size. Nice to see the T One in action. It gets up from grass easily. Nearly all my flying is from grass so this was nice to see.
It should be a crime punishable by law to fly an $18,000 precision scale RC jet from a grass field. Just joking....but only because we already have a ridiculous number of laws in this country.
Pretty cool stuff. Nice work! I am a little confused, though. Based upon things that I read over the years, and information that I've been given, it's been widely published that the newer design aircraft like this, and the F-16 are so inherently unstable that they literally require computers to aid the pilot in flying aircraft straight line and safely. If a radio controlled aircraft there's nothing more than a scaled down version of its real-life counterpart and how is it possible for someone to fly something with something as simple as a six to eight channel radio and have it fly so perfectly?
Simple: it has to do with the wing loading, if you duplicate exactly to scale the wing loading from the full size aircraft, you would need a computer to assist piloting the model, but since the model it's quite lite there's no staling tendency at low speeds; in other words, the model's wing area can handle the air plane weight and keep producing lift at low speeds which allows the control surfaces to be used without getting undesirable tendencies. You can see it when landing, the pilot slowed down the model tremendously and still he was able to land it without stalling it into the ground, so the secret is: "make it light"
i could definitely be wrong, but i think a lot of the unstableness comes from center of lift/center of gravity on the real f-22, which makes it hard to keep straight, hence aided by computers, but also very agile. if you do the cg right on a model airplane by shifting stuff around inside it could be very stable.
