building a ZAGI 3C EPP wing for slope soaring

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I am building a ZAGI 3C EPP wing for slope soaring. This wing uses a three carbon spar system.

I plan to use standard size Hitec HS-311 servos as the instructions say the foam is cut for standard size seros. I will be using 4AA size NIMH batteries for the receiver pack. Probably 1500s+. I will follow the instructions for a rugged rather than a light wing which should come up around 19 ozs.

Will be installing a Hitec 3 channel receiver to be used with a Hitec single stick radio. It has built in mixing.

Any tips or recommendations for the build, finishing, etc? All comments are appreciated. This is my first wing.

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All the electronics are installed, the strapping reinforcement is done and the color tape is finshed. The elevons are next.

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Electronics layout under the tape

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We arrived at our first site at 6:30 AM. I had the ZAGI 3C that had been
sitting finished for way too long. You see the only slope sites I know on
Long Island need a north wind and you don't get a lot of north winds here in
the summer. So I waited. Oh, they came, but it was 6AM on a Wednesday and I
had to work, or it was solid north and solid rain! :( Or the Honey Do's
could not wait. Man I wanted to try slope and had the right plane now.

Finally this past weekend all the conditions lined up and I got to fly REAL
slope. Oh boy am I hooked!

My friend tossed the plane into the lift at 6:30 and trimmed it out, then
handed it to me. I landed briefly around 7:15, then a crash at 7:30. Right
back up each time. At 9:15 or so, I had to land because my radio battery was
getting so low I felt I should land. It was 9:15 and I had been in the air
almost 3 hours!

Unbelievable!

Swap batteries in the radio, give the plane's battery a little boost and 9:30
I am in the air again. Landed at 10 because the wind was shifting. Off to
the second site.

10:30 we launched. Air was as smooth as silk and there were thermals around
too. At 12:15 the lift was fading so I landed.

It was barely past noon and I had almost 5 hours of flight time. Fantastic!
But the lift was gone, so it was off to lunch, then thermal flying till 6 PM.

Man, I can't wait till the next north wind!

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That next north wind came and we were up again a couple of weeks ago. So much fun. And this ZAGI is as tough as can be.

The ZAGI 3C makes a great first flying wing slope glider.