Looks like the plane and the engine are working well.
Is that your own design plane?
Vr,
Target
Nope, not my design. I'm not sure if it was from a kit or just an unnamed original design. As the story goes, this plane originated from someone down in southern California in the mid 90's or so. It made its way up to Utah where it has changed hands a few times. I received the plane as a gift from Gordan to help improve my flying. It had been cut into several times for trim adjustments, so the fuselage needed painting and I had to redrill the mounts for the LA46. I simply fogged it with satin black rustolem+activator. The maple engine beams were quite oil soaked and after several flights the brass inserts+JB weld would just spin. The beams cracked during this repair, so I took the easy route and attacked it with my sharp japanese hand saw... so the plane now sports a very un-lovely, lopped off nose with a plastic RC engine mount mounted out in the breeze and some stunt-rated rubber bands holding the remaining cowl on the plane. Though it is now very utilitarian looking, the engine run quality improved quite significantly after this engine mount change.
It's certainly a unique, albeit unconventional looking design with the twin rudders and no rudder. It flies well enough for me at this stage, and has helped me improve greatly this year. As far as the design, it has a sheeted foam wing with a good, modern looking, forward high point airfoil and a nicely blunt leading edge. The rib areas are cut out and capstripped. The twin rudders and high aspect ratio tail
(6.2:1) probably are its saving graces, as the tail volume of 17.5%
(105 sq.in.) is really quite low for the wing area
(~600+ sq.in.), Tail Volume Coefficient ends up quite low at only around .33 TVC or less.
10.75" nose length, (rear of prop to wing leading edge)
Stab/Elevator - 3" tip, 5.25" root, 25.5 width. 50/50 split. 105 sq.
Wing: 12.375 root chord total,
(9.75" + 2.625" flap) 9.625 tip
(8" + 1.625" flap)~ approx. 19% flaps average
(17% tip flap, 21% root flap)55" span -- 5.04:1 aspect ratio -- 600 sq.
16" hingeline to hingeline
~21" tail moment arm
.33 TVC 'ish
I fly it with one of my hardpoint handle kits and a pretty narrow, 3" line spacing as the controls in the plane are quite fast.