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Space Shuttle
Specifications:


Wing span:
Total wing Area:
Airfoil:
Overall fuselage length:
Engine:
Weight:
R/C:
 37.5"
500 sq .in.
6% flat bottom

44"
40-46 2 strokes
5 lb 12 oz
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)

 

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