Aero Drifter Build, Flying as a Capacitor Plane

This video shows how I modified Bob DeShields Aero-Drifter Free Flight HLG to use a small motor powered by a Super Capacitor.

The plane uses a Spruce fuselage with Foam Plate Vertical and Horizontal Stabilizers and a Sand Paper Shaped 3mm Foam board for the main wing (paper removed). The stabilizers and main wing have trim tabs to allow setting a limit on the free flight circle to match the flying space where I fly this model.

I also used clear packing tape on the leading edge of the main wing as well as at the dihedral breaks and wing center to strengthen these areas.

By the way, while the Aero-Drifter crashed into the tall pine tree at the end of this video, fortunately it fell through the branches and landed on the grass. An earlier version was "treed" about two months ago but when I was finally able to knock it free from the 40 foot level using a long, telescoping pole, it actually flew free of the tree and landed nicely on the grass. There was no serious damage.

I should know better than to fly too high at this site if there is any wind at all.

I once modified one of the $8 kids capacitor planes (Banggood) with a 1/16th inch square balsa piece glued along the EPP fuselage to stiffen it up and using sandpaper to shape the wings into more of an airfoil shape only to have it fly up and over these same trees. I watched it make nice circles as it rose higher and higher in a 5-7 MPH wind until it was just a microdot about 1/2-mile away... still circling nicely. Bye bye!

Plans for DeShields original Balsa Wood Hand Launched Glider are at: https://www.aeromaniacs.com/Freeplans.htm

Видео Aero Drifter Build, Flying as a Capacitor Plane канала James Eagleson