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Looking for a plane model
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Looking for a plane model

Hey pilots!

I am struggling to find a decent plane design resembling the trusty SkyWalker 1680 - boom tail, high flat wing, single pusher motor. My main constraints are:

- 4S1P 21700 battery must be enough to hit the CG. In the worst case 4S2P

- wingspan 1.2-1.6m

If anyone knows such a model please let me know.

The main purpose is to fly near mountains with high winds and gusts at 60-70kmh cruise speed.

The closest candidates I found are Titan (micro) Trooper and Flightory Lark. But they are designed for huge battery packs.

Thanks!

u/YMonZon — 3 days ago
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Mini Plane

Hello to all I was wondering is there is a way that I could make a tiny model airplane that is like 1 foot in length that I could fly around in my yard? I have a controller and a RC recover it is the FS-i6 and the FS-iA6B this is what I have. I need motors and ESC's, I would like suggestions for this. Also I want it to be 3D printed if you could give me some suggestions on files that would be great! thank you!

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u/henrok0428 — 4 days ago
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Hotliner retracts

So I added retracts to my hotliner design as well as flaps. She still runs over 150mph but now I can take off from the runway and land near the runway. You might notice the belly bulge, but I think it looks unique and doesn't seem to have affected top speed. Plane flies great at speed, but kind of a hand full under 60('ish) mph. A work in progress. Excuse me if this doesn't really qualify as a hotliner, but it must be getting close now!

u/WhoReallyKnows222 — 8 days ago
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Updating my 3D printed micro wing after the first test flights

Prototype 1 of this little twin-motor wing flew pretty badly.

Not “minor tuning issue” badly — more like “okay, this is doing too many things at once” badly.

It did show a few promising moments, especially around low-speed behaviour and yaw response, but the overall handling was too sensitive and too coupled, even in stabilized modes.

I think the concept still has something in it, but the first version was trying to combine too many experimental ideas at once.

So Prototype 2 is about finding a cleaner baseline first: calmer geometry, better yaw stability, simpler control behaviour, and a platform that is actually tunable.

Once that flies properly, I can start testing the interesting details one at a time: control surface size, placement, twist distribution, and differential thrust authority.

I'm looking forwards to building this one up and getting it flying asap!

For more information check out my build page here.

u/Swww — 9 days ago
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Aerofold?

I’m looking to build a loitering fpv drone that will glide hover in the work area and provide general ATAK mesh support. Ideally it would ultimately be autonomous enough to land, wirelessly charge, and take off again, but that would be in the future.

Has anyone here ever built the aerofold by Tim obrian? https://makerworld.com/en/models/1810710-aerofold-v2-folding-vtol-1-6m-plane#profileId-1931753

I’m trying to get an idea of how difficult it is to set up with the documentation, and realistically how much payload weight I will have access too.

Speed is my enemy here. I really am looking for an efficient platform that can fly for extremely long periods using minimal energy. I’m thinking the radius of active use would be about 500 meters at about 100-200ft above the deck.

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u/All_The_Diamonds — 7 days ago
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Resources for 3D Printed Aircraft Design

I’ve been eyeing up the project to design my own modular 3D printed aircraft for a while now and feel like I could be much more confident with my approach if I had more resources to go off of. I’ve made 3D printed gliders and am modding an FT Simple Cub to get used to everything.

I currently have a textbook pdf from the late 90s about RC Plane design a lot of it reiterates things I’ve found on YouTube, learned from making 3D printed gliders, or learned in my schooling as a 3rd year ME. What particular channels, textbooks (preferably free), or other resources have you all used in order to learn more about this hobby.

Things I’m currently most intimidated by are:
-Efficiently Modeling the aircraft around the components
-Component selection
-Overall design philosophy
-3D printing resources
-Aircooling methodology
-RC Plane sim software

I’m on a relatively tight budget with the task of making my own 3D-Printed Aircraft already being a relatively expensive task.

Please reach out with any potentially helpful advice given your experiences. Any and all help is greatly appreciated

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u/Just-Focus-1243 — 9 days ago
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Will a 1.8 meter wingspan glider work?

I've been working on a 1.8 meter wingspan RC glider, I've focused on aerodynamics and have developed a long wing design. I originally was going to CNC machine it out of foam but that would be ten times more difficult then just 3D printing the thing, it will have a folding prop in the tip. Now would it be too heavy? BTW this would be my first self made RC plane.

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u/Spiritual_Aerie9496 — 9 days ago
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NACABUILDER V4

Bonjour ,

Je travaille sur une appli html qui est conçu pour imprimer des profils . Elle fera parti de nasscad ( mon application nodale) , tapez nasscad dans google .

u/NassLab — 9 days ago