sfw2423

Introduction:

I've been wanting to try swept forward wings for a long time now, so I gave it a shot by taking the general design from the zohd dart.

Components:

• Dollar tree foam board with a foam noodle fuse

• DSM receiver

• 2x sg90 servos

• Furibee 30a ESC

• 5v 2a bec x2

• King kong 2204 2300kv motor with 5" carbon fiber prop

• Runcam Swift

• FX799T vtx

Conclusion:

At 175g dry, it came out around what I was expecting. The maiden flight was near perfect. Just a few clicks for trim and it flies pretty solid. It handles pretty much exactly as expected with no bad mannerisms. The only flaw is the motor vibration/noise due to the mount flexing left and right in the foam noodle.

The CG is also a bit far forward, so in order for me to use smaller 650mah 3s batteries instead of 850mah 3s, I need to balance it out with more weight. If only I left the fuse a bit longer. My intention originally was to leave fpv gear in the front to balance out the weight, but I am not completely sure I want this as a fpv wing yet.

Update 7/6/20 - I added some fpv gear to it now that it flies well. I also swapped to a 3 bladed prop which greatly eliminated the noise and vibrations. The FPV maiden went really well. I actually lost signal and the plane went down nose first but came out unscathed. Overall, it's a very smooth and stable flier with no bad tendencies, but I am more used to the nimble and maneuverable smaller wings.