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Scale Free Flight Forum => No-Cal => Topic started by: 9600baud on Apr 24, 2026, 09:15 AM

Title: Cessna Cardinal
Post by: 9600baud on Apr 24, 2026, 09:15 AM
Hi all,

here comes another No-Cal, this time scaled down to 75%.
It's very fragile. At the maiden flight I realised one wing was warped and I had to fix that. After that and a bit more of down thrust it flies nicely and I'm happy :)

Wingspan: 305 mm / 12"
Weight: 2.3 g without rubber
Rubber: loop of 27 cm of 1 mm2

Here is a short video:

Cheers
Alex
Title: Re: Cessna Cardinal
Post by: dputt7 on Apr 24, 2026, 05:31 PM
Nice build, what did you do between the 2 flights. it slowed down and flew better, less rubber?
Title: Re: Cessna Cardinal
Post by: 9600baud on Apr 25, 2026, 09:20 AM
Thanks!
The motor was the same. It was 900 turns for the first flight and 1000 turns for the second.
To me it the speed looks quite even but you might have a better eye for this :)
Title: Re: Cessna Cardinal
Post by: Konrad on Apr 25, 2026, 04:20 PM
Great job.

Love all that use of heavy iron to build this ultra light small model!

Many folks don't understand how important having well defined datums are to a nice finished project.