Bonzo Moon

I spotted this glider in a post on a Facebook RC group, liked the look of it and bought one. £16 delivered. It's a slightly easier conversion than a Lidl foamie build, as main wing is split and there's already a hollow in the fusi. A bit bigger and nice looking plane. Here's my unboxing and build blog. No maiden yet, but I know it'll fly well!

Interesting, the claim to making history was rather tongue in cheek! I'm not surprised someone has done it before. I saw a video on YT since making this by Peter Stripol. Crazy inventor and creator and pilot. He built a foamboard lightweight plane with a couple of dozen wings! Even managed to get it flying! As far as flying that little foamie, it's not obvious in the video but the plane is tethered on a bit of light line to my tripod in the middle of the space, so it's flying around that. There was no intention to pretend I was flying it RC, it just has a timer for 15s. If you had seen the original biplane video you'd know that it's tethered. Light was better in that video below. Here's Peter Stripol's crazy plane!

I built the World's first and cheapest QUADPLANE and test flew it INDOORS. When I get a chance it'll have a proper outdoor maiden, so watch this space! Happy New Year.

That is pretty cool! But did you see this? 😉

And I was thinking that too. Small, powered, better designed balsa glider could go well. Great potential for experimenters. That's why, as I said above, I've now got two more at home now!

No dihedral really and it's a kind of rubberised , very durable foam but doesn't bend and stay bent. I haven't tried a blade cut and glue though. Do it, let us know how you get on? I've got two more at home now. Worth it for the brushed motor, prop and small lipo inside. Great fun though as you say and funny enough, I had wondered about control line flying! 😄 Did you see the round the pole flights?

After some rather 'interesting' indoor round a pole tests, my £2.59 cheapo powered plane finally got an OUTDOOR maiden. And it flies and was great fun! I've bought two more, but not quite sure yet what I'm going to do with them?

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Thanks Simon, I'm still laughing about now myself!

Posted a video the other day of my latest 'build', the cheapest plane you can buy. Don't let the gales and rain stop you giving a small plane a maiden! There is a way. 😟 Build video is on my channel too. £2.59, ideal Xmas gift for your kids. No children or small animals were injured in the making of the following video. Happy Xmas.

Compared to my last 3 part video series, getting back to balsa after 12 years, this was easy! 😂 Worth buying just for the brushed motor and prop. Good for pulling apart and experimenting with the motor too? No maiden, needs a calm day and that doesn't look likely for a while. Happy Holidays!

Our posts crossed. And yes, that's what I just decided too in my edited post!

I just realised that and was just coming back to my post to correct that! You beat me to it! In fact I can afford to move the lipo a couple of mm further aft! My 77 year old brain was getting a bit confused. 🙄 I misunderstood the conservative bit I think. Of course what you meant was it'd be nose heavy, not great, (but better than tail heavy). For better flight characteristics CG further back, ie less nose weight, would be better right? I just worked out, the difference to make it 33% is 3 mm and on that covering it's not actually that easy to figure the actual CG that accurately! I'll maiden it like it is and see how it flies, making adjustments if necessary 😉

I think they were different plans , this is an old model and apparently, I have since found has been around in a few different guises. I' d already measured the main wing and it's 115mm. CG recommended is 32mm and that calculates as 28% (if my maths is OK) And I thought conservative. I'd prefer the usual 30% - 33% It'll need a bit more lead to achieve that. 😏 All the same, how anyone is supposed to achieve that with this kit, the recommended motor and lipo without lead is hard to see! Thanks to all for comments. As I say, last few years I've been building foamboard and foamie conversions and this was a different ball game. And I've had good success with those.

Think that's a different plane?