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Let's Build/Fly/Crash - The Bluntnose Versa Wing

3,644 views · Published 3 November 2014 · 7:30 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: CurryKitten · 2014 · Autos & Vehicles

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Here's my flights of the blunt nose versa wing.  I built this out of 3 pieces of A1 foamboard (From Hobbycraft in the UK) from the Flite test plans that we downloaded, which Neil kindly got printed for me in a single piece so I didn't have to join little bits of A4 together.

Sadly, I came to start to hate this plane before I flew it.  At first I built it meticulously, and then when I discovered that a normal 2200 wouldn't fit in the nose section, and even if they did it wouldn't balance, I started to get wound up.

Out came the knife and holes were cut for 2 lipos in the side of the wing.  I was using a KK2 to test stabalisation (which I never got to test) and that needed extra holes cutting to fit the wire in.

This eventually balanced out about right with a 1.3A 3s in the nose, so if you were putting on a GoPro instead it would be about right.

A combination of the turn into the downwind section - and my evident lack of skill when flying LOS killed this one.  But it was actually huge amounts of fun to actually fly, there's something about having low expectations that give even this short flight a lot of fun.

I felt it was very much a group effort with the rest of the Mad Dogs guys expressing an opinion about throw rates, elevon design, nose weights etc.

Big thanks to Neil/krikey as my thrower/lipo retriever

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