Last night we had a great meetup. We made and flew Squirrels and two Daytons.

People made the Squirrels from memory. Enough people know how to make them so that’s a good sign.

The Dayton went together very well (and fast). Here is my assessment.

• The wing had better rigidity than I expected!
• I flies well with flaps down. I think I will split the aileron into flaps and aileron so people can learn to experiment with that. I’ve done some test since the meetup and it is a great slow flyer.
• We flew it without trimming. It had a phugoid but I will do some more experiments next time.
• The paper proves to be light enough.
• Wheels add a lot of charisma.
• A few of the laser cuts were the wrong dimensions. Still worked well but I will tweak that stuff for the next run.
• The assembly and flight are working well enough. After some tweeking to the laser files and the printout, I will attempt a double sided print and do a larger batch for the next revision. In the next build I will make five at once so we can study the flight characteristics further.