RCRCM Hornet Motor Glider, Руководство по сборке

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The first powered flight was made at our local college sports grounds. It offered lots of space, and
very few people about. This flight was also was very successful. With 3mm camber down (both
flaps and ailerons) and 1mm of up elevator it easily climbed away under full power from my spring
switch on the radio. I did a couple of circuits to verify trim deciding not to change anything, no
clicks. I then went into a high altitude clean wing stall, no problem at all, just dropped the nose and
carried on. The objectives being achieved, next up was a clean wing landing. There was a
gentle wind right to left in the above photo so I was able to do a base leg outwards the sea and a
long flat final. The Hornet just goes on and on in ground effect with a clean wing.
Next flight was a CG test. I climbed to 300 – 400 feet and put the nose down in a 40 deg dive, it
pulled up indicating a forward CG. I repeated the trimming flight with the CG 3 mm further back
with similar but better results. I suspect I'll eventually end up flying at around 84mm to maintain a
consistent 40 deg dive but I don't like making large CG changes so it will take a while to reach that
level of tune.
Next flight verified Loiter mode, certainly flew slower and with adequate control. Nice.
Next flight tested crow at altitude, the initial setting I would use in the turn to final was stable with
just hint of ballooning so I carried on and landed in this configuration. My initial setting does not
have a lot of down flap so it could be carried to the ground. The space used for the landing was
about 50% of the previous clean wing landings. Aileron control with reflex was adequate.
Next flight was full flap testing. It certainly slowed the speed in a steeper descent, control was a
bit mushy but this was expected. Just before the landing flair I dumped the flaps back the initial
crow settings to avoid damaging the flaps on the ground. Going to have to remember about this
in the future, it would be very easy to to excited about a perfect landing and forget about protecting
the flaps.
Final Impression
Overall I pleased with the plane and it's performance. It will be several months before I stop
making changes to the programming and the way I fly it but at this point it is a winner, achieving all