Well this did not go as well as I hoped!!

Thanks for all of the honest disclosures on build and post crash damage. Very helpful

I have built a bunch if dancing wings planes and man they all fly beautiful and go together pretty easy each kit has some pieces that was tricky

Ohhhh I wish E-flite , X fly or FMS would model this. Well done Greg.

Sehr fein geflogen! Habe selbst gleichen "Storch" von "Dancing Wing Hobby".... gebaut. Fliege ihn schon seit 2 Jahren. Noch nicht gecrasht! Alles Gute in die USA! Ein Sachse

I think one of the biggest issues this plane has is that it calls for the smallest servos on the market, the control surfaces are large and it's easy for a plane this size to fly just fast enough o put the surfaces under compression so the tiny servos can't move them. I purchased an assembled DW Storch from the ceiling of the local Hobby Shop. first thing I noticed is that the wings will swivel back a bit so I'd advise the builders to install removable wing root bolts ahead of the wing spare. Mount your receiver high above the servo deck and run your antennas back into the rear of the fuselage, the servo deck is carbon fiber and that hinders reception for the receiver. Using long Y harnesses for the wing servos allows you to route the wires out of the way for installing the battery., speaking of which, the battery box is also the motor mount box, get it set into position and instead of using the screws and angle plates to hold it in place, epoxy it in place, that way it won't shift and the battery box will be clear of the two pieces of wood the screws anchored into. Now to the afore mentioned servos, install HS 85's for the tail control surfaces and HS 65's for the flaps & ailerons. HS 55's will work for the leading edge slats, but restrict the lift of the slats to 4mm, other wise they distort the air flow over the top of the wing leaving you with stall issues. You can flip the servo plates around on one wing so that they don't need separate channels, they can work off a Y harness no problem.

Good stuff. STOL is fun and different! Stick and rudder at its finest

Should be easy to fix, Hobby Lobby has a great selection of balsa and other modeling wood. You can cut and peel back the covering, do the repairs, pull the covering back. You can use a hairdryer to warm up the covering to loosen the glue. If you don't have any covering if you need it for the repairs, use blendem or scotch tape. Even paper tape will do and you can paint it, Jeff in LA USA

When ailron dont turn the plane put some roder then.. allso looks like you land with no flaps when u pick i up. Hope you can fix it because its a nice looking plane. Happy landings mr. And enjoy the plane. Nice video 😊

Which is why at 77 years of age and just under 2 years into the hobby I'm afraid to fly paper and stick RC planes. [As a kid in the fifties I used to build paper [we called it Japanese tissue paper] and stick [balsa] rubberband planes over the course of several weeks and totally destroy them in minutes.]

love the scale looks of that plane but it does seem fragile...have a good one...

From watching your , and other flier's DW and even larger Storch models, it looks like they are too heavily wing-loaded for scale-like STOL slow takeoffs and landings like the full scale planes. The high aspect ratio skinny wings probably need differential ailerons on separate channels giving up but little or no down motion to get better lateral (yaw) stability. Maybe angling ailerons slightly up would also help lateral stability. The full scale Storch top speed was 110mph and they could land and take off like a butterfly in very small spaces.

Just noticed your video (KZfaq recommendations), and you seem to have had the same, less than desirable performance from this plane. I wanted her to do so much better, but she just didn't. Your crash landing was so close to mine, but my storch didn't have any damage inside...just my pride - LOL...but just wondering if you're taped wings helped... I left my wings "pinned" by the spar, but they still slipped back some and just made the plane fly weird. I want to try on a less aggressive pitched prop, but fear she'll just be too slow then to even fly. Too long of a build to just let her collect dust, and she is a looker, no doubt. Wonder if she's worth another 2-3 hours of salvage work. We spend something like 25 hours on ours...too long!

Even thou I built a # of balsa kits in the 90's I find these balsa and wood ARF's present some challenges and take much longer to built than I anticipated. But, I have lots of stuff in my stash now and balsa does fly better so it makes sense to start building wood ARF's and the Flite Test foam board planes. Due to similar wind conditions here in East Central Fl as in AVON Fl way too high to be thinking of a maiden. I will fly planes I am familiar with in this wind like my Efilte Valiant and my FT simple stick.

The name of the plane comes from the creators name Gerhard Fiesel and the name of the animal stork because of the high main gear.

Good luck on repair. When I saw this plane for the first time I love it, but it would be a pile of stick’s by now. A foam one about 1100mm would be nice scale to my WWII Warbirds. Maybe a bush plane about the same size for a gear mod👍🏻✌🏻🖖🏻Think about it😳

nice looking static model, not much in rc

Cool Bird, nice flying, sounds like maybe 5 or 6 mph wind?

My condolences

Excuse me fizller is how it is pronounced. My bad.

fizeler is how it is pronounced. just an fyi.

After my maiden I have to admit all my speculation about this plane it's not worth the trouble.

Do they make a in fly plot camera for the Habu ?? Your friend novice old fart

Obviously a plane to avoid ur only positive statement about the plane was it looked good.

These Dancin wings plane look good but sure don't seem to fly well for anyone. The savage Bobber by Dancing wings is a sharp looking plane but flys like absolute crap. Now this plane does not look like it has the best flight characteristics.

never been a fan of the Storch... this didnt help lol

Way too fragile for my type of flying. Haha

i never had good luck with DW planes, they're all seem fragile and flimsy.

I keep well away from these aircraft - regardless to what the so called Reviewers might have to say on youtube - - will you repair of scrap it ?