6.6m Antares build thread

[Linou]

Hi Len,

Do you have any information regarding CG, ailerons, flaps, elevator upper and lower limits?

Thank you.

[Len]

Linou,
Here is a link to the Antares info on the site under CG and Control throw Database, http://www.rcaerotowing.com/5834-baudis-models.html
It has all the information listed there.

When you get a chance, spend some time looking around the main Website, www.rcAerotowing.com
You will find all sorts of good information there.

Hope this helps

LEN

[Alessandro]

Hi everybody, this is my Antares i flown in the GPS Eurotour contest last year. Grat machine. !!! I've some good advise for getting best performance . Just let me know.
Best regards
Alessandro Milano

[Alessandro]

..other pictures from GPS contest...

[Len]

Alessandro. I would welcome any recommendations you have on stet-up and performance. How did you do in the GPS competition?
The main problem I continue to see is hooking up the elevator servo every time you put it together. What fitting did you use there?

len

[Alessandro]

Hi Len, in the GPS I did very good even if it was my first year with that kind of competition. Anyway I got 2nd, 3thd and at the World Cup in Spain I got 5th place on the Open Class ( we compete with 1/2.5 scale glider) and I got 7th on 1/3 scale. I did also a personal record with 13 laps at he average speed of 84 km/h !! On the speed round ( one lap at maximum speed ) I got 118 km/h average speed.
Back to the glider setting. Following some suggestion more on flying side.
-during towing I mixed little flaps down with tow release, why ?...Flaps down ( 3°-5° ) because in this way the tow rope is all the time under tension and the glider stay all the time higher than the tow plane. Mixer flaps and tow release: when you release automatically the flaps came back to neutral position. You never forget flaps down.
- flying: I just used flaps and all ailerons little down for thermalling. Thermal phase.
- I mixed flaps with elevator. : elevator up flaps little down. This setting is helping a lot in thermalling. Try it to believe !!
-landing setting: full flaps down ( 80 ° ), ailerons up ( not too much- 8°-10° ) compensation with elevator down to put the nose down..Whit this setting you will e able to land in a very short runway and a very low speed. The important is to have the nose down during all the descent.
-unfortunatly I cann't say you where the CG was placed..... I destroyed the Antares last september during the last GPS competition in Ozzano ( italy). I lost it when I was at 700 mt high and I found it in a field 1km far away completely destroyed !!. With the data logger I saw the crash speed on the field : 260 km/h !! As you can imagine I didn't save anything . Anyway this is the risk during competition. Now I'm waiting for 1/3 Arcus from H Model.
For the elevator I used a clips with security......clips on the rudder arm and uniball with security on the servo horn. Hope I can be clear enough and sorry for my english...
Anyway you will enjoy a lot the Antares. It's a faboulous glider with the top performance you can find on the market at the moment . Only Arcus ( H Model ) is a little bit forward in term of performance but at the end a lot is depending from " fingers " !!!.
Feel free to ask me others infos about Antares.
Ciao
Ale
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[Linou]

Perfect ! Thanks a lot ;-)

[Linou]

Linou,
Here is a link to the Antares info on the site under CG and Control throw Database, http://www.rcaerotowing.com/5834-baudis-models.html
It has all the information listed there.

When you get a chance, spend some time looking around the main Website, www.rcAerotowing.com
You will find all sorts of good information there.

Hope this helps

LEN

Perfect LEN, thanks so much.

[Henryk]

Hi Guys,

Just trying to get My antares sorted for this weekend.

Did anyone find the standard throws for ailerons, flaps and elevator?

I have looked at the information and unless I am missing something, everything else is there except the throws.

Cheers
Henryk