Great video. I also changed my landing gear by drilling through the aluminum stick frame and putting on a mini ultra flight landing gear. Flu great until the plastic tail Joiner fell off!
That’s so funny I randomly saw that gear pop up on Amazon while searching for yet another pair of replacement gear ! Glad to see it will actually work 👍🏻
I'm an old guy, 82, who has flow RC since 1970. All I can say is that thie Slow Utra Stick is one of the very best fun airplanes I've ever flown. It can be a wild aerobatic plane or a doscile trainer depending on how you fly it. HOWEVER, the original brittle plastic landing gear struts were very weak and would easily break . The new replacement ones are carbon fiber and much stronger.
The slow ultra stick landing gear are carbon fiber rods, not plastic. I have broken a few on mine but only when I screw up a landing pretty badly. Usually when I’m trying to do repeated loops with a touch and go at the bottom of every loop, or I’m landing uphill, and downwind. Land correctly and they hold up just fine. They hold up to high speed taxiiing, even on one wheel. Best part is it takes 2 seconds to replace them and they’re cheap on Amazon. Heavy aluminum gear will affect the flight characteristics and will bend and possibly break other parts of the plane that are much more difficult to replace. But it’s your plane, do what you like. If it works better for you, and you’re ok with the extra weight, knock yourself out. I’ll stick with stock, cus I love the simplicity, and if you flare your landing, as you should be, they simply do not break. Unless your grass is 6” tall and you come in fast. So don’t do that.
Once again. Pilots having to redesign EFLITE Cheap Glass slipper landing gear. EFLITE airplanes fly like a dream. But every flight has a landing. No reason to dread landing.
Great video. I also changed my landing gear by drilling through the aluminum stick frame and putting on a mini ultra flight landing gear. Flu great until the plastic tail Joiner fell off!
That’s so funny I randomly saw that gear pop up on Amazon while searching for yet another pair of replacement gear ! Glad to see it will actually work 👍🏻
I'm an old guy, 82, who has flow RC since 1970. All I can say is that thie Slow Utra Stick is one of the very best fun airplanes I've ever flown. It can be a wild aerobatic plane or a doscile trainer depending on how you fly it. HOWEVER, the original brittle plastic landing gear struts were very weak and would easily break . The new replacement ones are carbon fiber and much stronger.
The slow ultra stick landing gear are carbon fiber rods, not plastic. I have broken a few on mine but only when I screw up a landing pretty badly. Usually when I’m trying to do repeated loops with a touch and go at the bottom of every loop, or I’m landing uphill, and downwind. Land correctly and they hold up just fine. They hold up to high speed taxiiing, even on one wheel. Best part is it takes 2 seconds to replace them and they’re cheap on Amazon.
Heavy aluminum gear will affect the flight characteristics and will bend and possibly break other parts of the plane that are much more difficult to replace.
But it’s your plane, do what you like. If it works better for you, and you’re ok with the extra weight, knock yourself out. I’ll stick with stock, cus I love the simplicity, and if you flare your landing, as you should be, they simply do not break. Unless your grass is 6” tall and you come in fast. So don’t do that.
Nice. Great video.....
Thank you it could be better I just hope it helps anyone who has this awesome airplane
Once again. Pilots having to redesign EFLITE Cheap Glass slipper landing gear. EFLITE airplanes fly like a dream. But every flight has a landing. No reason to dread landing.