The MadSagitta

MadSagitta from Phil Taylor on Vimeo.

This is a classic and important video. Back in 2008, Phil was the first to take on the challenge of trying to achieve Madflight filps in the style demonstrated by BPLR with the Madslide. He took his existing Sagitta and built a new all moving tail for it, documenting the entire experience in his Crazy AMT for Aerobatics thread on RCGroups. He suffered a lot of challenges along the way, but the thread attacted a lot of attention – including some timely assistance from BPLR himself – and in the end, his efforts paid dividends for all of us. Today we have a much better understanding of the design requirements for Madflight and it is entirely thanks to Phil’s efforts here.