Science Olympiad Flight Review 2024: Freedom Flight Models Fun Science Div. C
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
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Love your comment @ 40:53. Funny how the plane looks so simple, could frustrate modelers without experience. Great advice! I want one!!
You should get one; they fly extremely well as long as you correctly align the wings and maintain the glue joints. I spent today helping a student get two of his dialed in and they flew great as soon as he got the wing warps set.
Cold will absolutely affect performance. That’s true for every guy unfortunately.
Love Paul's reaction in the intro! 😂
He had a ton of fun with that.
Félicitations, vraiment intéressant : Jacky de Marseille. France.
Nice,
I have a very tiny motorized L-19 Birddog of the Vietnam war FAC era to build. I suspect its a rather decent balsa kit out of Minimum RC in China. Sadly its been in the box & on the bench for 3 weeks. Too many projects on my list.
I do want to give freeflight ago. When I was a kid in the early 60's that's all we had and it was a hoot when things went well.
The simple large stick rubber powered planes were easy to assemble and never failed to delight. The box kits that cost significantlly more in those days due to being die cut with sometimes dubious balsa were a real challenge and required a ton of perserverance.
In a sense I think those that had it or the perserverance required went on to grad school in engineering or mathematics because as I remember the ordeal; perserverance and an absolute love of the topic was needed.
very nice
Thanks for this video! My students finished building this kit and were flying it this week, but they were having challenges tightening up their turn circle. Any tips on how to adjust the turn? You mention wing warps in another comment. Do you have videos on how to adjust this? Any tips are appreciated. Thanks!
Easiest way is to crack the tailboom, bend it to the left, and harden the crack with some glue.
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even if it is brazenly over-engineered, the layout has me questioning my own designs again. As the rubber restriction grows tighter, I fear drag becomes a critical part of design, and this airplane is extremely optimized in lift-to-drag. looking forward to this "fifth kit"
Don't redesign yours just yet. That whole better being the enemy of good thing. Yours will likely be one of the highest performance planes this year. The Freedom Flight plane does indeed fly very well but I don't think it can keep up with the semi-custom stuff that you and others are using. Heck, the re-propped Stingers some of my students fly are absolutely insane performers and that still with the whole kit structure in there.
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You sugest Duco cement in the video may be desireable to get more time to fixture parts, does Duco bond balsa to carbon well? Or could the entire kit be built with Duco cement? Thanks for making these video's!
In theory, the only place in the structure where CA is absolutely required is attaching the nose bearing.
Always love these review videos! I run a freedom flight models plane for my science olympiad team and I'm finding some really great success with it. A couple weeks ago I competed at the conestoga/battle at valley forge invitational where Dr. Dave Drummer ran the flight event, and he voiced about a lot of the same concerns with beginner friendliness, but this thing really flies once you have it down. We ended up winning the invitational with a bit over a 2:30 flight time (Flared prop) on our second official so I'm really loving the results it brings.
I was wondering what your thoughts were on negative stab incidence like what you added during your 2022-23 FFM plane review? I have a tiny bit (about 1 degree) on my plane and its been going well, but I just wanted to hear your thoughts on it for this year because I got the idea for that from your review video on last years plane.
Thanks for everything you do Mr. Finn, I know a lot of people (including my partner and I) that wouldn't have got as far into flying as they have without your contributions!
Nice flying!
I dont think this one needs negative in the stab, mainly because it has a much larger tail volume coefficient. Never hurts to experiment though!
@@joshuawfinnYeah that's true, I think it has been really helping me maintain a stable upward aoa on descent though. I'll be flying soon at another invitational next week so I'll be sure to shoot you a message if I notice any distinct differences in my flights from the other ffm planes that I see over there. Thanks again!
@@ishanpatel6526 thank you!
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This is my first time building something like this and I kind of gave up at around 19:52 when you began applying the mylar, i have no idea how to do that and I think I already messed up the mylar I was given :(
Watch a couple of the SO build videos for my kits and consider using veggie bags as covering to learn the techniques required.
Nice video! I got a question though, when I built this kit and tested it, the plane would stall when I first released it. Any tips and tricks for why this happens?
Slide the wing back. The instructions give a lot of details on adjusting it for proper flying characteristics.
j'aimerai bien avoir le plan ,quelqu'un pourrait me dire comment je peux l'avoir merci!
Could you explain the difference between the sizes of the rubber motors and how to put them on the plane?
Use thinner rubber if the plane is running out of power before landing; thicker rubber if it is landing with too many turns left.
@@joshuawfinn what is the center of gravity for and how do i get it?
@@bonnamazing04 in the case of the Freedom Flight plane, just use the center of gravity recommended on the plans. Same for the Stinger (balance at wing trailing edge). For designs without such recommendations, use the Tail Volume Coefficient method in the technical library at themmmclub.org
What tool did you use to cut the mylar?
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My plane keeps diving, is there any solution? I am using the thinnest rubber band that comes with it. Maby I need to switch that out?
Diving is not a function of rubber size. You need more incidence. Go look at the Stinger trimming video for some advice on that.
Thank you!@@joshuawfinn
40:53 me and two other friends got it done without any experience and it ended up flying
What kind of times are you getting? I've spend an inordinate amount of time this season coaching kids on how to get the spars on their Freedom Flight planes correctly aligned. Never have seen anything like it...it's getting old.
The first flight was alright, around 10-12 seconds; however it crashed and there were damages to the ribs that effected the flight times after but we are working on it to improve it for the next competition. Btw I wasn’t the one how chose this kit, otherwise because I’m a beginner I would’ve chosen an easier one
@@TheRonikPatel fair enough. Definitely a substantial level of complexity. I've seen a lot of experienced students do well with it though.
Whats your longest flight time
Just under 3 minutes outdoors, 2:20 indoors. We did 3:30 outdoors with the Stinger C.
@@joshuawfinn that's awesome