The plane looked cute but I have no sub micro gear and I was into other projects anyhow. 

Well, I got one given to me and I had just finished a successful but boring test design so I had spare gear. I decided to give it a go for the heck of it. I used all GWS pico gear. edp-50xc, 3x2 prop, 5amp esc, 2 pico servo's and a pico receiver. I had two battery choices, a 2oz qualcom or a 1.4 oz nimh 8.4v "9 volt." Well, I hate charging nimh's now that I am spoiled by lions so I decided to run the QC's. AUW 4.8oz. The whole thing was destructed on one night. 

I reinforced the wing with a really tiny CF rod. I think it is sub 1mm. I took the poor thing out today despite the 10-20mph winds because I had run the edp-50xc in a mini wing in 30mph wind and this was a no-care test anyhow. I fired it up and threw it out. It shot away much faster than I was expecting and started climbing out. I wasn't ready so I tried to bring it back and ended up looping it at full speed in windy conditions. Unfortinately the cf rod was no match for the g-forces and the wings stood up like rabbit ears. It came down hard on the belly, but nothing got broke. 

I went back and put in a rod that was twice as large. Since then I have had it in the air twice with loops and dives and the rod has held. This thing is a screamer. I have to paint it because the white 24" plane on grey sky disappears in seconds. It also seems to like tipstalls. It recovers easy, but you have to be able to see which way is up and I can't tell with it so tiny and white. 

It feels *really* fast. If what people say about the edp-50xc is true, then it should have been going 30 easy and 45 on a down-wind dive. I wish I was better at telling. 

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tailshot.jpg

Better tail shot. I chickened out and used one rudder in the center. Both elv and rud are left full size and then I added foam from crossman target stock for the control surfaces. Egg carton would have worked just as well. 

Under the fuse you can see the little brown tape flap with velcro that I made to hold in the battery. 

This is how it looks after two *very* fast one point landings so it has proven to be more sturdy than I would have guessed. There are some dirt scrapings on the nose and somehow the back of one wing got a little ripped when the motor tried to eject forward.