Sukhoi SU-26

Picked up my new toy on Saturday morning its a 68" Sukhoi SU-26 from Overlander, can also be purchaced from Globle RC

He`s a short vid of one in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTr2Cg77R08

Specs are

Wing Span: 68in(1730mm)
Length:65in (1660mm)
Wing Area: 961sq in(62sq dm)
Weight: 8.6-101bs(3900-4500g)

Engine: . 90-.120(2C).120(4C)20-30cc gas
Radio:4CH/6S








Current set-up will be ELECTRIC,

Using a Thumper 6374 and a Tornado 110amp opto ESC and a 10cell lipo pack of 5000mah swinging a Xoar 20x8 prop

I will proberbly change it to petrol after the show season to use it as a mini imac practice plane

More to follow

M

love that colour scheme

If im honest in mot overly fussed on the scheme to Traditional for me i think, it dose however look a damm site better in the flesh, my kit also came without the sticker set so you sticker machine may come in handy

M

thats not all it came without

TUT!,

Its "in the post"

M

Right will have the missing leg tomorrow hopfully so maiden Friday/Saturday

My foray into 10s madness and 2 hr charges what fun

M

you need a bigger charger mate!

How are you arranging the cells Mark ?
2 packs of 5 or a single 10s 1p 5000mAH pack ?

2 x 5s 5000mah

A bigger system could be
Schulze 8-936, can give 9 Amp into 10 cell Lipo. It has no integral balancer.
When hooked up to LipoProBal14, up to 14 cells can be balanced when working with 8-936 in handshake mode
Charge completed in <1 hour

Paul,

Thanks for the reply but the 2hr charge time was abit toung in cheek ive got the capablity of charging the packs in several ways and im fully aware of the "dont use the car battery"

M

Well actually my junsi 1010B+ charger is 10 cell 10 Amp and has a 300 watt capability and cost less than $100 US

Looks good Barnes!

The thing i found with the big electrics (last year in fact) is that they are great! Until you come to charge them at the field. The joy of lugging a maaahoosive leisure battery around, soon wears off, and the idea of a generator seems a bit over the top really.

That's part of the reason I got rid of the Edge (well, apart from it being a bit lardy). Great to fly, but a pain in the botty to charge. Oh, and it wasn't so much the chargers fault, as the power supply for the chargers fault.

I still have (wet?!) dreams about a hulking great electric tug style aircraft. 2.5m of electron fuelled beefyness....... Mmmmmmmm.

Ahem. Sorry. let me know when the maiden is, I PROMISE to remember the movingFilm camera.....

Andy

As you may have seen in Feild tales my Suk finaly took to the air last night,

I had 2 flights on a 19x8 prop using 8s and a 9s pack, in trouth the 8s wanted a much bigger prop on it and everything was stone cold and flight performance was sedate, 9s was better but again i think it would benafit from a bigger prop 20x10 i would recon.

However ive the option of 11s so i will try that this weekend at weston with a cobination of props and wil slap the watt meter on to see exactly what were getting.

Flying wise i was very impresed, the plane was nose heavy and you could tell but it still flew very straight and true, both flights were in lowrate mode and i seemed to have guessed the movement about right, rolls were very axal and elevater control was crips and acurate, rudder was just about right to,

The only issuse (aprat from the cog) was my f3a style undercart, this was an after thought by me as i thought it would look better than the standard and in torooth it dose but coupled with the nose heavy balance the bugger nosed over twice on landing (but to be fair the secound was a tad short)

Must also thank Leigh for his help with the build and set up and for plugging in the scary conectors

Both Dave S and Andy were clicking away so we should see some shots soon

M

A few pics from Tuesdays test flight.











and Andy had a hover!





DaveS

Are the green things on the heli the Lipo's being cooled down ?

PaulQ

Nice one Mark, glad to hear the test flights went ok. Looking forward to seeing it fly at Weston Park at the week end.

Great pics Dave thanks, and thanks Mel hopfully it gose better than the last Sukhoi i flew at weston

PDQ wrote:Are the green things on the heli the Lipo's being cooled down ?

PaulQ

Yes

It's taken me all afternoon to get that one Barnes! The last sukhoi you flew there was the mid-air one right?!

On my Helicopter (A TRex 500 without it's dress on), the huge green chunk is the lipo pack, yes. The reason it is flying without its lid on, is that the big green packs don't fit under the canopy! They are rather a lot too big. On the plus side, I get around 15-20 minutes of hovering practice out of a pack, and they stay nice and cool.

When I eventually get to grips with lazy circuits, I'll invest in some new packs that fit under the canofbees......

Cheers!
Andy

PS. vid editing has been delayed, mainly due to apathy.....

correct the midair in the video posted in Up comming Events

It still makes me chuckle, that video is class!

Yeah Dave did a pukka job on that one

M