today in the channel i'll show you the shaka glider which is this beautiful
wing look at the interesting design and i chose this combination of colors to cover it
and it's from the ukraine i'll leave the link in the description below
and i'll show you the build process from the kit and then we'll fly it i haven't flown it yet
so it's going to be very interesting so the shacka comes in this triangular box which is very weird
if you check the website you'll see the price and everything all the details so i'll
leave the link in the description below this is everything included in the box which is the plan
and also all the wood parts and the carbon fiber tubing the plans are in color which is the first
time that i see a plan in color and these are all the laser cut pieces which are very well
cut and they're very precise so i'm going to start the whole process building this model is
very simple although i took about two weeks in my spare time but compared to building the riser 100
for example which video you can see there in the corner it took very little time and effort
i would say that the most complicated part of this model was this kind of fuselage which has
a lot of parts and then you have to cut it down and sand it to round the edges
but if you follow the instructions or pictures in the website it will be a lot easier to finish it
here is that little fuselage that i was talking about and is totally sanded
so it's more rounded and looks better
and here you can see the final shape of the model but i still need to cover it with some film
which i'm going to do next i'm really impressed with the alignment of the wings
and because of the perfection of the laser cut all the pieces will fit together perfectly
and for the covering i selected white on the top then on the bottom of the wings i'll
choose two different colors in transparent and the fishless will be red so it will be
very interesting and these films are from different brands but it will work just fine
and after a little bit of magic i finished the wing and everything is connected and ready to go
so the wing is finished and as you saw in the beginning of the video this is the
the final result i'm planning to use some magnets to hold the canopy in place and i had to put more
weight on the nose to to have the right center of gravity that is marked here the electronics are
very simple inside i'm just using a very tiny 2s lipo battery then i'm using a block converter to
step down the voltage to 5 volts and then i'm using a micro receiver and then i'm
connecting the servos from the wings and the wings are detachable so you can
unscrew this and take apart the wings and the fuselage and that way is even more portable
but i don't think i need to do that because this is a very small
wingspan and now is the time to go out and fly it the first place i went out for the maintenance
flight was the beach and there is a very minimal tiny slope where i can maybe gather some
updraft and fly this glider the wind is perfect is in the right direction and has enough speed
and there it goes it flies but it's very sensitive to the controls so i need to fix that
i set a very high exponential curve and also limited the range of the servo
but the other problem is that this tiny slope is not going to help
to maintain the flight of the plane
i walked down the beach and found another place where the slope was a little bit larger
so i could get more lift but i still needed to trim the plane and also had a problem with
the only battery that i took with me that day so i'm going to fly it again in another place
this is the place the slope is a lot taller
and the wind that they wasn't that fast but it's going to be enough
with a wind speed of around 9 kilometers per hour there was
plenty of leaves available on this slope it was the perfect time to trim the glider
i ended up using one single cell batteries which are a lot easier to plug and play
i was using the trim tabs on my radio to trim the glider but it wasn't enough
so i had to land around six different times to change the settings in my radio
using the sub trimming and changing the exponential until i got it right
also i added a little bit more weight and after
the sixth time that i tried that it was flying very well even this light less movement in the
elephants will make the difference and will make it turn go up or down is very sensitive
my
so this plane is very fast and easy to build but is not made for beginners you
need a lot of practice flying other planes because this little wing requires a little
bit of precision when flying it other than that is very fun to fly it and is not very expensive
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you in the next project i'll let you watch a little bit more of this wing flying bye for now
you