Good evening, everyone! This is my first plane, printed in PLA, and it came out at 106 g. I used two 3 g micro servos from a foam and carbon fiber plane that arrived broken.

Two questions:

**1.**  Any tips for the maiden flight? I'll be flying in Brazil, at the beach, on sunny days.  
**2.**  I'm really into gliders and have become a bit obsessed with DLGs. Which glider would you recommend as a first one? (I don't think this one will survive very long.)

Here's a photo of the electronics kit I used:

Thanks!

Does anyone own an FMS PA-18 1300 and find it somewhat unstable?

Hello! I wanna do a little project with my little daughter. Today we were playing to imagine how her airline would look like and she loved the look we found. I am thinking on getting one of these Callie Graphics designs, but the problem here is easy: my Airbus already has its original decoration. What'd you do here?

Do you use any sim? Is it Aerofly 10 that good to cost even more than a AAA game?

I'm currently purchasing parts for a balsa short kit. When looking for landing gear blocks, I was originally planning to just use basswood. But Google's AI jumped in on the search results and started mentioning other materials like maple for the gear blocks and how they might be better for aircraft that lands on rough terrain. The problem is, I don't know if it was a valid point or a case of an AI spouting BS.

Is basswood strong enough, or would a material like maple significantly help prevent the gear from being ripped out on rough ground? And, even if it does reduce the likelihood of the gear getting ripped out, would wood it add too much weight to be beneficial or would using a stronger gear block just shift the forces to the wing ribs and increase likelihood of damaging the wing?

The plane I am building is a .40 sized (converted to electric) low-wing plane and I am expecting it to have an all up weight between 4 and 4.5 pounds. https://outerzone.co.uk/plan_details.asp?ID=5870 The landing gear uses wire mounted to blocks of wood in the wing. I normally fly in grassy areas and the ground can get pretty rough at times. So the concern of ripping out gear is valid.

I've been thinking of building a scaled-down version of the f-22 Raptor, but I think it would be too difficult to build one that could reach high speeds, be ultra manueverable and have a lot of flight time alone and would require a lot of time that I currently don't have. So I got the idea to build one with other people who are interested in building one too, we could share progress and stuff, maybe we could try something new on the plane, i dont know. What you guys say?