Candy 30 DLG (oz16549)

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Candy 30 DLG. Hand launch glider model. Wingspan 30 in, wing area 120 sq in. Uses some foam construction.

Quote: "Here is my CANDy 30 design (stands for Cheap And Nasty Dlg). The idea was to build something really simple and cheap for a bit of fun flying. I reckon the whole lot cost about £23.

It's built from 6mm depron covered in coloured parcel tape with a pound shop glassfibre fishing pole section boom. The wing is a flat depron sheet with a vertical carbon strip spar (0.5x5mm), the trailing edge is lightly sanded to thin it a bit and the leading edge is radiused. The tail surfaces are balsa.

Wing span is 30 inch, and all up weight ended up at 78 grams, including 10 grams of noseweight. The servos are 2.5g Emax ES9051 digital, which work very nicely with Kevlar thread and pull spring control surfaces.

The battery is an 8 gram Turnigy Nanotech 1S 300mAh and the receiver is a 3g Orange R410X.

The model took an afternoon to design and about two days to build. It flies quite nicely, not in the same league as an Elf obviously, but plenty of fun for the minimal investment. You might get half the performance but it comes at 1/6th the price!

The thin, flat wing section makes for good penetration, in fact it can cover a surprising amount of sky, but the glide slope suffers in 'thermal mode'. Being light, I think it will manage with decent lift about, and being fast it should be fun on a slope in light winds..."

See RCGroups build thread at: https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2603135-CANDy-30-DLG

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