3696 Yak-3

Rabbit Leader · Post by **Rabbit Leader** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:35 am

heres the 3696 Yak-3 that I built in the last few days..I'll post pics now, details later, as its 200 am here and I'm beat..

Cash

Lee Liddle · Post by **Lee Liddle** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 10:28 am

It looks great Cash. I`m glad that you didn`t make a Mustang out of it, you Hacker. LOL

Rabbit Leader · Post by **Rabbit Leader** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:10 pm

Lee, I still have your Mustang. The Yak is built from balsa, blue foam and 2mm coro doublers, kinda like Cottontail on a smaller scale. The wings are old 2105 Mustang white foam cores cut down to the correct shape, then sheeted, taped and covered. I'm running an Electrifly 950Kv 35mm outrunner, a 25 amp esc, and a Dualsky 1700 mah 3s lipo. It's kinda weird, I'm pulling just a shade over 12 amps with an MA 9-6, and she's only taching about 8300-8400 static, but it doesn't seem to give up much, if any in the air. It climbs well, goes along at about an SSC like pace, and turns fairly tight (that might be due to the e203 airfoil, and the 24.5 oz weight) JP and I are thinking that since the hotter motors you and Ed are using are essentially "dialed back" to 9000 rpm static by using the ATV, and the motor in the Yak is not, then it's unloading quite a bit more in the air and at least approaching the 9000 limit. Anyhoo, she flies real sweet..I got more planes in my head, though...hehehehe....

Rabbit Leader · Post by **Rabbit Leader** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 2:12 pm

BTW, I guess due to the different materials used in the building of this plane, you could call it "scrounge-built" as opposed to scratch-built...

Hackers forever!![:p]

Cash

slam · Post by **slam** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:07 am

as always.....looks great.

slam

drewjet · Post by **drewjet** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:51 am

Looks sweet. But if you are going to be a "Hacker" then maybe you should be running a Hacker.

Rabbit Leader · Post by **Rabbit Leader** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:56 pm

Thanks for the compliments guys!!

jpmorere · Post by **jpmorere** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 2:07 am

OK, so I am a little late on this thread... I did get a couple of minutes on the sticks. This little bird flies quite nicely. Lots of aileron - the way Cash likes it, but still quite managable. The elevator got dialed down to about the right rate over the first couple of flights. It had WAY too much the first time up. Good thing Cash had a lower rate set up. I have flown a plane with WAY too much elevator and it ain't fun!.

Now I gotta build one for myself. I'm working on it. Should only take a few more months now... [:)]

J.P.

Rabbit Leader · Post by **Rabbit Leader** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:52 am

You'd better hurry up!! BTW, you and I gotta talk about a couple of 3696 "projects"..got some more ideas..

jpmorere · Post by **jpmorere** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:13 am

Oh Crap!!! Everybody put on your hardhats and duck... Cash has even MORE ideas!! [:)]

J.P.

Which_way_is_up · Post by **Which_way_is_up** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:55 am

Here's a couple of photos I took of Cash's Yak at the North Dallas combat event.

Serg · Post by **Serg** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:37 am

Sorry, I have missed the beginning. What is specification for 3696 ?

Serg http://amocs.com

Ed Kettler · Post by **Ed Kettler** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:08 pm

Serg,

Please check out http://www.rccombat.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12260