Gotta finish building it.Bailbonds said:
Foamy Glitter
Time to wake this site back up with a new design. Been learning to use Autodesk Inventor for work and in part of the learning process I grabbed some of my RC gear to learn to model them and went ahead and shrunk the Glitter down to a 32" flat plate foamie.
Vote on a name idea or if you have other ideas I will add them to the poll. Will let the poll run for a couple of weeks.
Specs
32" span
29-1/2" long
Use your electronics out of a value hobbies foamy setup
I'm going with four 5 gram servos so I can have ailerons on separate servos.
Building mine out of 9mm depron that I have on hand
Weight of my foam parts for one and the electronics out of my old crashed giles is right at 8 ounces so figuring around 8-1/2 ounces after glue and paint is added. Was hoping for under 8 but oh well.
sending the second one to jake for his opinion and if we are happy then I will post plans for it to be built out of 9mm depron or EPP as well as a second set based around dollar tree foam for those that want cheap.
Will add more pictures as the build progresses and hopefully jake will add some as well.
Let me know what you think.
Vote on a name idea or if you have other ideas I will add them to the poll. Will let the poll run for a couple of weeks.
Specs
32" span
29-1/2" long
Use your electronics out of a value hobbies foamy setup
I'm going with four 5 gram servos so I can have ailerons on separate servos.
Building mine out of 9mm depron that I have on hand
Weight of my foam parts for one and the electronics out of my old crashed giles is right at 8 ounces so figuring around 8-1/2 ounces after glue and paint is added. Was hoping for under 8 but oh well.
sending the second one to jake for his opinion and if we are happy then I will post plans for it to be built out of 9mm depron or EPP as well as a second set based around dollar tree foam for those that want cheap.
Will add more pictures as the build progresses and hopefully jake will add some as well.
Let me know what you think.
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It took along time and donating the plane to a buddy to finish and fly but this thing flys and it flys great. Ailerons are a bit anemic currently but its do to only having the stock short arms on the servos. We will be extending them to make it better. I have only gotten to fly it on an extremely windy day but I was impressed. Honestly had it been made of EPP it probably would not have flown as well in the heavy wing. Ultimately for long term durability I think EPP would be the better option though. So for those interested in building one themselves just shoot me a PM and I can send you the plans.
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