View Full Version : Goofy looking sig kadet mii


sigkadetmii
01-08-2002, 09:08 AM
I new and purchased a sig kadet mii kit,im around the mid building point.Ive taken my time but everything on the plane seems sorta
slanted to one direction.If a plane isn't built totally straight,will
i have a hard time keeping it flying straight??:(

fourstar40
01-08-2002, 10:37 PM
I have built some planes that were off a little. Stuff like the fin was was not quite straight but things like that can be trimmed out. The thing is when you fly it the first time its going to do some crazy things that you might not be ready for.

If there is any way you can fix it go ahead and try. It will be well worth it.

Superfast
01-09-2002, 12:38 AM
I built four SiG Kadet Senioretas when I was learnign to fly, being self taught I went through quite a few trainers :) . The second one had one heck of a twist in the fuse. So I was kinda in the same boat. Just make sure you wing is straight with your tail section and it should fly pretty decent, or atleast decent enough to trim out in flight.

Scott

_jon_
01-09-2002, 10:23 AM
I've only been building RC airplanes for a couple of years now, and I've experienced what you are going through right now. I've had to break/cut parts apart and refit/re-glue them to make them straight. It's a pain, but it needs to be done.

Get the whole plane as straight as you can and pay some extra attention to the wing. A warped wing will give you real fits on the first flight. Been there, done that. Also, there's probably a bit of right thrust and maybe downthrust built into that model's design. If they whole planes leans or twists in the left direction, you might have a plane that'll wanna' turn left real bad on take off and in flight.

You can pull some of your twists out with your covering. I assume you're covering with a heat shrinkable covering. Just use your heat gun to take out noticeable twists. Have someone hold the twist out (the covering will get all wrinkled up) and then apply the hot air to the area and work out the twist. Heat shrinkable covering (monokote, ultracote) is extremely strong and it will hold the twists out. I've got flying buddies that take a heat gun to the field with them to correct problems on their own planes and other peoples' planes.

If you don't have one, you might wanna' get an incidence meter or 2 to put on the wing to check it's incidence and it straightness.
The meter can also be used to check and set the stabilizer's incidence and the motor thrust line.

After all is said and done and you have gotten the airplane airborne, you can do like fourstar40 said, take some of the problems out via trimming with your control linkages and your radio trims.

Hope this helps some.

Jon