When I lived in California I spent every day after school and all weekend flying one of two hills. Model gliders at Coyote Point and real gliders at Mission Peak. All through high school..... Every time you post a video it takes me right back there. I haven't found a hill to fly off since. I've been married for 30 years and raised 2 kids since then...
Very enjoyable John! I think I seen a couple of 6th generation fighter maneuvers in that clip! This should be in your top 10 videos due to unique airframe and very solid flight characteristics of this plane. Thanks for sharing this with us!
imagine a future with unmanned planes that could go from a very high to low wing loading mid flight, being able to fly slow as a glider and fast as a missile
@@SlopeRCGliders I think I'll send more your way. You need to spend more time in the shop, and not making all of us jealous since you can get out and fly!!
Those acrobatics are crazy. Looks like you almost lost it in one tumble. Got to say that silhouette is a lot more pleasing than most canard ships I've seen.
Wonderful Mr John !This is a proof of your technical and building skills. This canard formula flies so well... Burt RUTAN should appreciate! Sincere congrats and cheers...and Champagne!
That has to be a ferly unique manoeuvre in a glider .I love how it sorts itself out like the air flow over the wings and forward weight put it back flying again .Not Know if i would want to try it might end up in bits LOL
I've just finished a enlarged version of west wings canard star rider in 5mm foam still making my mind up where I go now electric or catapult , who knows. Another great video thanks John keeping me interested just renewed my CAA drone test at 74 👍
I remember building a little (about a 9" wingspan) free flight glider styled after a Saab Viggen about 50 years ago. Pretty sure that even it it HAD control surfaces it wouldn't have managed some of those maneuvers! I know for a fact it wouldn't have done anything inverted since I built it with a pronounced up angle on the canards 🤣
Looks like a "Speedster Den" style Wisel wing plan, with the addition of a long fuse and canard. I bet that'd convert to powered better than a Wisel - plenty of room for batteries to get the CG forward
Another spectacular video. Does it have elevators on the canard? or are you using elevons. I'm rebuilding a Bill Evans Saracen 72" glider, larger control surfaces like yours may make it more maneuverable.
It’s just purely elevons. I did think about making the canard move but it’s always a vulnerable part on landing. The big elevons seem to have more than enough authority.
@@SlopeRCGliders Hi ! I was wondering the same thing, about the canard being elevator or not. It seemed to make the turns as a plank though. Could the elevons be used as flap (snap- flap) i.e. turning down, if you had the canard as an aggressive elevator? Thus making slow flight and snappy turns feasible without reflex in the main wing, as for now ? How you tried it ? Ahh, and cool experiments and smooth flying, as we already know ;) .Thanks.
@@pistis1213 this website is perfect for calculating the CG www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj8g_HkyNP8AhWZi1wKHTNABe0QFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Frcplanes.online%2Fcg_canard.htm&usg=AOvVaw3Qlba0aPbTbjitd7co1n-q
You seem to have found a special sweet spot with that Canard design: a large tail, large ailerons and a small canard seem to make the whole model plane efficient, maneuverable but very balanced and stable too - an amazing combination. I know that you are a good pilot too and some of that flippy stuff could not be flown by anyone else.
Should canard designs still be stable when flying inverted ? I guess the normal rule of CoG being ahead of CoL applies to all stable aircraft. This one seems to fly itself when it is the right side up (too well) . The canard incidence is just for limiting stall problems. Great plane, video and music - thanks again @@SlopeRCGliders
I’m not sure off the top of my head. I always use tunes off the RUclips audio library so there aren’t any copyright issues. I’ll see if I can look up the music.
To be honest, I didn’t give it that much thought. Somebody at a model swap-meet gave me the wings for free. They are off a powered 3D model and have a symmetrical section. I also had the front canard which was just the tail off another broken model. Then I joined them all together with a new balsa fuselage.
@@SlopeRCGliders Thank you for the reply. Makes sense then as symmetrical airfoils tend to have low to no pitching moment. My favorite plane of yours is the x-wing canard. Looks sick !
@@SlopeRCGliders May I ask you what angle you used for the X ? As far as I can see, it's less than 45°. Did you try several angles or just did what looks about right ? Asking because if the X angle is symmetrical in the horizontal plane, it has zero effective dihedral so it would make it neutral in roll.
I don’t know the exact angle but it is less than 45%, and I did just do what looked about right. It’s the same angle top and bottom so, like you say, doesn’t have any effective dihedral. However, the ailerons are only only the lower wings, so it doesn’t roll as axial as it could. Only having ailerons on an inverted V has the advantage that they want to roll the aircraft but also yaw it in the correct direction. Having them only on the top wing would have the opposite effect.
I’ve only ever published the plans for my Ocean Breeze design. A friend helped me digitise the plans as I’m no good with computers. Normally I just make up the designs as I go along, which then makes it hard to reverse engineer any proper plans. For instance, with this canard, I started out with a set of wings I was given for free. I then built the fuselage directly onto the wings without ever drawing anything on paper.
@@SlopeRCGliders Thanks for the reply, I have tried "seat of the pants" model airplane construction with spectacular failures and wonderful successes! Your flights are wonderful, as are the models.
When I lived in California I spent every day after school and all weekend flying one of two hills.
Model gliders at Coyote Point and real gliders at Mission Peak.
All through high school.....
Every time you post a video it takes me right back there. I haven't found a hill to fly off since.
I've been married for 30 years and raised 2 kids since then...
Lot's of us fly at the beach, I fly at Elwood beach in isla vist.
I hope you introduced those kids to the wonder of flight , in all it's forms .
Nice camera work missus !
We're going to start calling you King Canard. (Superb model.)
Nice flight Jhon. A show.
Great flying, & great camera skills! Mahalos!
Thank you.
Crazy model aircraft that flight backwards. Crazy flight manoeuvres.
Very enjoyable John! I think I seen a couple of 6th generation fighter maneuvers in that clip! This should be in your top 10 videos due to unique airframe and very solid flight characteristics of this plane. Thanks for sharing this with us!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it.
imagine a future with unmanned planes that could go from a very high to low wing loading mid flight, being able to fly slow as a glider and fast as a missile
That might be the friskiest canard I have ever seen.
Magic...Canard 💯⭐😊⭐👍⭐🎥⭐⛵⭐🛩⭐💯⭐Fantastic Movie 🎥👍😊
It looks like it’s a plane with a reverse gear! Love it!
Launches a new glider off the cliff upsidedown. Flies the flight, lands the glider, drops mic, walks off stage... ;)
COG looks perfect! It does not care which side up it is with great response to the elevons.
It does have a fully symmetrical wing which helps.
Wow, what a great flier. Looks excellent too. Congratulations on a great design!
Thank you very much!
John does it again! Very cool canard you have there!!!!!!!!!
Hey John, I have 2 feet of snow on the ground, how about I send you some???😁
Funnily enough we got about 2" of snow here today. It had all melted by the end of the day but was still nice to see.
@@SlopeRCGliders I think I'll send more your way. You need to spend more time in the shop, and not making all of us jealous since you can get out and fly!!
I like that one, John... has it's own signature manoeuvre! (0:32)
It took me by surprise the first time!
Thats a really neat looking design. I always think about doing a canard for FPV
Cool. The paint scheme seems very effective for orientation purposes.
Stunning! Great design and flight, I enjoyed your video immensely!
Thank you. So glad you enjoyed watching.
Those acrobatics are crazy. Looks like you almost lost it in one tumble. Got to say that silhouette is a lot more pleasing than most canard ships I've seen.
Thank you. I have to say, the first tumble did take me a bit by surprise. It recovers well though
Wonderful Mr John !This is a proof of your technical and building skills.
This canard formula flies so well...
Burt RUTAN should appreciate!
Sincere congrats and cheers...and
Champagne!
Thank you so much!
Some major skills there, John. And wicked manoeuvrability to match.
When do the aliens want their technology back?
Thank you!
Duckflight very british
That has to be a ferly unique manoeuvre in a glider .I love how it sorts itself out like the air flow over the wings and forward weight put it back flying again .Not Know if i would want to try it might end up in bits LOL
I've just finished a enlarged version of west wings canard star rider in 5mm foam still making my mind up where I go now electric or catapult , who knows. Another great video thanks John keeping me interested just renewed my CAA drone test at 74 👍
I remember building a little (about a 9" wingspan) free flight glider styled after a Saab Viggen about 50 years ago. Pretty sure that even it it HAD control surfaces it wouldn't have managed some of those maneuvers! I know for a fact it wouldn't have done anything inverted since I built it with a pronounced up angle on the canards 🤣
Very Stylish. 👍
Thank you.
That one looked to be a joy to fly.
Looks like a "Speedster Den" style Wisel wing plan, with the addition of a long fuse and canard. I bet that'd convert to powered better than a Wisel - plenty of room for batteries to get the CG forward
Some pretty wild maneuvers! What was that post stall flip thing?😅. First time I’ve seen you launch inverted!
I’m not sure what the stall manoeuvre is called. If you pull the stick hard into the corner it just flips around and flies backwards for a while.
A good flier, but difficult to know whether it's going backwards or forwards.
The Bell X1 for the next glider ? :-)
3D slope soaring.
I only do this in the simulator.
You got some skilz. 😎
Thank you!
Your glider seems to be very agile
Being a Porsche owner, I'm curious why the brand is featured on your plane? That's cool when a tumble ends pointed back into the wind! 😆👍🛩
Fireball XL5.
I love how you maiden right off that cliff. Is that all balsa?
Yup, it’s an all balsa build.
Another spectacular video. Does it have elevators on the canard? or are you using elevons. I'm rebuilding a Bill Evans Saracen 72" glider, larger control surfaces like yours may make it more maneuverable.
It’s just purely elevons. I did think about making the canard move but it’s always a vulnerable part on landing. The big elevons seem to have more than enough authority.
@@SlopeRCGliders Hi ! I was wondering the same thing, about the canard being elevator or not. It seemed to make the turns as a plank though. Could the elevons be used as flap (snap- flap) i.e. turning down, if you had the canard as an aggressive elevator? Thus making slow flight and snappy turns feasible without reflex in the main wing, as for now ? How you tried it ? Ahh, and cool experiments and smooth flying, as we already know ;) .Thanks.
@@kimp8079 I haven’t tried that but it all makes sense and would probably work really well.
Perfect.... Why don't make some video to how build one of those?
I do keep meaning to do a build video sometime..
@@SlopeRCGliders ...or some explanation to how balance the CG center🙏
@@pistis1213 this website is perfect for calculating the CG www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj8g_HkyNP8AhWZi1wKHTNABe0QFnoECBEQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Frcplanes.online%2Fcg_canard.htm&usg=AOvVaw3Qlba0aPbTbjitd7co1n-q
1:46 😎👍🏻
You seem to have found a special sweet spot with that Canard design: a large tail, large ailerons and a small canard seem to make the whole model plane efficient, maneuverable but very balanced and stable too - an amazing combination. I know that you are a good pilot too and some of that flippy stuff could not be flown by anyone else.
Thank you! I’m definitely pleased with how it flies.
Should canard designs still be stable when flying inverted ? I guess the normal rule of CoG being ahead of CoL applies to all stable aircraft. This one seems to fly itself when it is the right side up (too well) . The canard incidence is just for limiting stall problems. Great plane, video and music - thanks again @@SlopeRCGliders
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Great flying is that a two or three Channel?
It’s just two channel.
What is the background music called? It's excellent.
I’m not sure off the top of my head. I always use tunes off the RUclips audio library so there aren’t any copyright issues. I’ll see if I can look up the music.
Very cool, how do I acquire the blueprint of this airplane?
Unfortunately it was just a one-off build which I made up as I went along, using an old set of broken wings.
Well I would call that a resounding success. Are there control surfaces on the canard, or are you utilizing elevon control configuration? Thanks.
It’s a fixed canard. Control is purely the elevons.
Love the big wing and small canard. Well done.
Did you use a low pitching moment airfoil to be able to have a canard that small ?
To be honest, I didn’t give it that much thought. Somebody at a model swap-meet gave me the wings for free. They are off a powered 3D model and have a symmetrical section. I also had the front canard which was just the tail off another broken model. Then I joined them all together with a new balsa fuselage.
@@SlopeRCGliders Thank you for the reply. Makes sense then as symmetrical airfoils tend to have low to no pitching moment.
My favorite plane of yours is the x-wing canard. Looks sick !
Thanks. The x-wing was great but I ended up breaking it on landing as the bottom wings were a bit vulnerable.
@@SlopeRCGliders May I ask you what angle you used for the X ? As far as I can see, it's less than 45°. Did you try several angles or just did what looks about right ?
Asking because if the X angle is symmetrical in the horizontal plane, it has zero effective dihedral so it would make it neutral in roll.
I don’t know the exact angle but it is less than 45%, and I did just do what looked about right. It’s the same angle top and bottom so, like you say, doesn’t have any effective dihedral.
However, the ailerons are only only the lower wings, so it doesn’t roll as axial as it could. Only having ailerons on an inverted V has the advantage that they want to roll the aircraft but also yaw it in the correct direction. Having them only on the top wing would have the opposite effect.
John, have you ever put one in the drink?
Not yet…….
I see so many videos with different planes ... how fast are you building ?!
😊
I do tend to build quite fast.
John, when you do these wonderful "Out design glider", and ti turns out as nice as this one, do you ever publish plans for them?
I’ve only ever published the plans for my Ocean Breeze design. A friend helped me digitise the plans as I’m no good with computers.
Normally I just make up the designs as I go along, which then makes it hard to reverse engineer any proper plans. For instance, with this canard, I started out with a set of wings I was given for free. I then built the fuselage directly onto the wings without ever drawing anything on paper.
@@SlopeRCGliders Thanks for the reply, I have tried "seat of the pants" model airplane construction with spectacular failures and wonderful successes! Your flights are wonderful, as are the models.
@@davepoxson8337 I’ve had a few spectacular failures as well. They just never get as far as a video!
Salut wood filed : quel est le poids de ce planeur rival ?
Mer-See 👍