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Back in the late 70's all the rage was the das ugly stick desighn .A company came out with a das canard stick and a friend of mine built one with a 40 nitro motor ,it had a 60 inch wing span and flew great . It was very hard to stall and when it did the nose would just drop till it pick up speed again or it would just mush along and not drop at all. It also had a very fast roll rate and went where you pointed it. With the elev in the front it took getting use to flying it because its not like looking at a normal plane flying around. It took me about 7 years to find a print but then i had no way to make it a little smaller for a e- conversion so i hit the view button on my computer till i got it to a 30inch somthing size wing and i measured it right on my computer screen till i got a rough sketch and the airfoil also. Here is where iam at so far ,the wing measured out to be 38 inches and the elev was 14 inches . I shoud have made the rear of the fuse a little longer to clear my ail but it has worked out fairly well by making my ail wider but shorter in length so my prop don't eat them.lol Iam running reg props but going to reverse the way the motor swings one and turn the prop backwards. This is a test plane and i plan on building a bigger one if this one flys well. Here is what the 60 inch wing span one looks like and my foam one iam still working on.
BTW i used dollar tree foam for most of it but did not trust it for the elev or the rudders so i used 3/16 balsa . Yes i could have used some carbon fiber in a foam elev but it needed a little extra weight up front so i could get my battery where i wanted it to end up for the cg and hatch . More comming soon. joe