Space Shuttle
Specifications:
Wing span: 37.5"
Total wing Area: 500 sq .in.
Airfoil: 6% flat bottom
Overall fuselage length: 44"
Engine: 40-46 2 strokes
Weight: 5 lb 12 oz
R/C: 4 ch. Elevons, rudder, throttle
Material:
Balsa + Plywood
Design Feature:
* Sport scale delta wing with lifting body
* 2 self-adjusted fuselage side intake flaps
Performance:
- Capable to perform most basic maneuvers, such as loop, roll, inverted, etc.
- Hovers in strong wind
- The roll rate is quite high to perform, more than one roll per second
- Needs 200-300 ft. to take off on grass runway
- Low speed characteristics are simply amazing
- It does not tip stall and land slowly
Construction Article:
Featured in Feb. 92, RCM (Plan #1110)