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SplashJet

Just a concept I've been toying with for a while, Flight/crash report coming soon!

After shortening the fuz I thought it still needed more taken from it.

I think I went too far, as I then had to move the weight forward.

The test didn't go well, after moving the balance forward it still wasn't good

and went into a flat spin too easy, maybe more tail was needed?

Had a couple of flights of should I say frights with it

but decided it was back to the drawing board for the Splashjet 2

New version flew but was a real handful, the control surfaces were only on the elevons,

I'll link them to the ailerons for the next version!

And I will have to concede and use a Carbon rod instead of the Pine, I screwed a piece to the top of the wing but it interrupted the flow over the wing.

The pine was removed and a couple of stiff skewers were threaded into the flutes

but weren't really stiff enough for the job.

It was a vast improvement on the Mk 1 but still  has a way to go ;-)

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