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My work on the bloody wonder

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So my first experiences with this plane was great. It could glide, fly, roll, loop, it could even vertically take off. At around this time i was really into two things in flight. Vertical flight/quadcopters, and aerial filming. I worked on aerial filming first. The goal was clear: a stable, slow flying aircraft. So i worked on the wing first. The outcome was pretty awesome. Read up on the Flite Test article i wrote below. The display of the new wing, and tests. The bloody wonder is such a versitile plane, it has a great glide slope and its awesome with acrobatics. It can do everything. I wanted to just glide, and to improve on that. With my father pressuring me and saying "aerobatics wont get you anywhere", i started a very short journey. With the original build, flaps are not availible. I built a second wing for my plane that is interchangable with the first wing. The second has flaps, and also, it has a larger wing chord for more lift, also a MUCH larger airfoi

My introduction to flight

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I like flight. Things that fly in general. Things that make things that fly, maybe. It's just really interesting, and it challenges the human. You're working on a 4 dimension level while hovering, with an up, down, left, and a right to control, but if you want to fly with an airplane you suddenly have 5. You go forward too (going backwards is dangerous, never do that at home kids). You can move one and the other might fall apart. You fix that and the other might be out of balance. It fun to mess with. Programming is something i also like because it relates to flight. You can mess around with a code, change a variable and something might fall apart. Fix that and 20 things are in distress. In order to keep the balance, you have to keep at it, and keep getting results. I stumbled across a guy called RCPowers on youtube. He was just flying his radio controlled airplanes around. Whenever i watched his videos, i was amazed. Maybe because i was 10, or maybe it was because how he men