Hobby King Mini-Stick 580mm "Electric to Cox" Conversion

Excellent news Travis.
I stumbled on a site yesterday that advocates using a Peewee
Tank on the back of them I bookmarked it on work PC so I'll
Dig it out tomorrow.
When I get round to sticking a TD on the Bacaruda I'm going
To try out with Rusty's balloon cigar tube option.

//////i picked up one of those arf stick kits last year but never even started on it yet. I was going to go with 3 of the 5g servos from HK and their 2.4G rx/tx and anywhere from peewee020/TD020 or the TD049 I have on my littlest stick once my littlest stick is no longer flyable but it keeps on going up so I havn`t swapped it out for this 1 yet but its looking like a very nice option for that cox flight contest coming up seing as how I will have a tough time keeping airframes flyable through a contest

I was thinking more of a regular tank, any thoughts on what size/type?

I just went the other way, built a Littlest Stick for electric..

(appx. 150g w/ 450mah battery)


http://my.pclink.com/~dfritzke/lastick.pdf

looks good mark! good luck with maiden flight

thanks i'll need some luck, my kid thinks he's a better flyer (and probably is) and will have to fight with him on who flies it first! That and trying to convince him that a little expo is our friend, I've got a ton of throw dialed in.

Just go easy on the controls, dont over correct! good luck with which one flies the plane first

...jeez, reading your reply, it dawned on me...this summer will be thirty years since i got my first radio and AMA card!

Times does fly when your havin' fun!!!!!

And time's fun when you're having fly haha

lol, isnt that true Mark

Mark Boesen wrote:...jeez, reading your reply, it dawned on me...this summer will be thirty years since i got my first radio and AMA card!

Times does fly when your havin' fun!!!!!

That reminds me... I forgot to renew mine in December....

...you probably know, but your kids can get AMA for free?

Ya I know

lol, i had signed up jr. and had forgotten about that, got his same # he had when he as a little kid.

...so ran out to flyin' field tonight after work, had about 1/2 hour of light left, no wind and almost 35f, not bad. Plane flew great, a little sensitive, but with practice do-able.

While trying to fly it inverted it started to lose altitude, stalled it about 30' up, it snapped and it went straight in...only to bounce a little off the snow, broke prop thats it!

It sure will be nice when there's no more snow in our pictures. Glad you didn't bust anything serious. Is that a wing that just doesn't like to fly inverted very well?

If I read the plans right the mini-stick has twisted wing tips and lots of dihedral. It also has a flat bottom wing. Inverted would be difficult especially without ailerons.

I am pretty impressed you tried it. Nice thing about small models is they are comparatively stronger than their larger counterparts.

Phil

glad the maiden flight went well

thanks everybody! Yep, i think it will a fun li'l plane to take to the R/C field (or high school) alone or with others.

Rudder with a lot of dihedral is tuff, it can be fun, challenging but fun, with a lot of throw it was barrel rolling pretty tight. i'm actually thinking i might build another wing, take out most of the dihedral and go symmetrical with ailerons.

If it weighed 300g, i'm sure i'd be picking up a lot of pieces.

Nice job, yeah the dihedral makes inverted more tricky than a wing with no dihedral.
Meanwhile,in the spirit of "well someone had to say it" I`ll throw it out there, wasn`t this suposed to be a cox powered plane?
How disapointing to hear the maiden was e power instead of COX powered
I`m just crackin on you,nice job.
I`ll make mine cox powered

...i still have the old carcass (fuselage) oil soaked and heavy, complete with a Cox sticker still proudly intact!

sounds like mine

I received two of the Hobby King Mini-Stick planes today. I got the ARF versions because the USA warehouse didn't carry the kit versions. But, at $29 per kit, it wasn't too much of an inconvenience. They are pretty nice, other than the fin/rudder and the stab saddle that I had to do a lot of sanding on to get it come out parallel to the wing. I also got seven of the 5 gram servos for the two kits, just in case one of the servos was DOA. The one I'm putting together first will have a TD.020 on it. After I see how that flies, I might put a Sure Start with a balloon tank on the other. Sorry, no build pics as I got excited when they got here and just started gluing. I'll post pics when I'm done with the first.