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Post by Burkeomatic on Aug 18, 2022 17:18:34 GMT
I'm diggin' the C123 - that crazy swoop up in the back would be a fun challenge to 'normal' (for me anyways) designs I haven't felt much like building with foam either, don't know why, that is why it has taken forever for me on your plane. I am honestly to where I feel like I could get it flyable in a few hours. I just need the canopy and upper wing skins on that. I do plan on doing a large scale C-123 too, and I dig that hump on the back, I want to do it large and have functional cargo capacity to drop stuff from. I just haven't been in much of a big plane mood. If I lived in a place where I had land I would have a few huge ones. But I live in suburbia hell where a selling point for houses is a 60 foot wide lot instead of a 50 foot wide one. I have the 50. It is currently leaning more toward a mix of the first 2 instead of the C123, although that little swoop up on the tail of the c123 would be hard to accomplish with DTFB.
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Post by peanut on Oct 9, 2022 1:06:59 GMT
We’ve got a few sitting around in brown paper bags all cut out and waiting. For what I don’t know. There is David’s Viggen (OK this one I do know, it’s the EDF), Nerdnic’s 800 Spitfire, the Super Bee, the Mini Guinea, and the Mini Corsair. In the queue but uncut are Ratcheeroo’s Kadet, Miniac’s Mini B-25, and something big because I was given an Eflite 4540. It’s HUGE compared to everything I’ve ever flown. Any ideas?
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Post by Burkeomatic on Oct 9, 2022 3:49:57 GMT
We’ve got a few sitting around in brown paper bags all cut out and waiting. For what I don’t know. There is David’s Viggen (OK this one I do know, it’s the EDF), Nerdnic’s 800 Spitfire, the Super Bee, the Mini Guinea, and the Mini Corsair. In the queue but uncut are Ratcheeroo’s Kadet, Miniac’s Mini B-25, and something big because I was given an Eflite 4540. It’s HUGE compared to everything I’ve ever flown. Any ideas? I have a 3548 I want to put on a larger, slippery master series type build. You might want to look at a larger kit to buy, unless you just want to do DTFB. Do you want a big lumbering beast or something that hauls nuggets, what KV is it. I love nerdnics planes. I wish he would come back.
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Post by ratcheeroo on Oct 9, 2022 15:09:47 GMT
We’ve got a few sitting around in brown paper bags all cut out and waiting. For what I don’t know. There is David’s Viggen (OK this one I do know, it’s the EDF), Nerdnic’s 800 Spitfire, the Super Bee, the Mini Guinea, and the Mini Corsair. In the queue but uncut are Ratcheeroo’s Kadet, Miniac’s Mini B-25, and something big because I was given an Eflite 4540. It’s HUGE compared to everything I’ve ever flown. Any ideas? I have built the Spitfire so if you have any questions or problems just give me a shout as there is no full build video to reference for that, its a very solid plane. As far as a big plane goes, my Kadet is a 45 inch wingspan. If you guys were really ambitious there is always the MS P-38 , it looks more challenging than it is and you and the boys would get some good practice on shaping foamboard. When I first started doing this hobby, that plane was my 5th or 6th build. It is also apparently an easy flier. I don't have the confidence in my hand launching skills to find out so it hangs from the ceiling in the hangar LOL!
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Post by peanut on Oct 9, 2022 15:44:32 GMT
Thanks for the offer of help I may likely take you up on that since there was something that stopped me up originally. I was actually thinking of the Kadet when I was last pondering that monster. The motor weighs 300 grams! more than some of my planes AUW. Not sure if I would need to enlarge the plans to make that work. I’ve been pondering master series planes for a while and there is something about a twin tail boom that calls to me so it sound like that could be a good fit for us. I appreciate the input!
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Post by peanut on Oct 9, 2022 15:58:33 GMT
So I’m thinking of leaning toward the slower side mostly because of my piloting skills at this point. The KV is 540 but I’m not sure how that translates for a motor that is this big. I’m thinking a high wing might be my best bet for getting it back on the ground in one piece. Waht happened to Nerdnic? He had such a good thing going!
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Post by ratcheeroo on Oct 9, 2022 17:55:55 GMT
So I’m thinking of leaning toward the slower side mostly because of my piloting skills at this point. The KV is 540 but I’m not sure how that translates for a motor that is this big. I’m thinking a high wing might be my best bet for getting it back on the ground in one piece. Waht happened to Nerdnic? He had such a good thing going! Yep thats a biggun LOL! High wing is definitely the way to go IMO, and probably looking at something with a 60+ inch wingspan and probably a minimum 12 inch prop. And big motor=big battery so something else to consider as well when considering type of plane, I'm thinking something bush plane like would be a way to go, but that's just my opinion, a motor like that on my Black Bart would be insane LOL! It will be interesting to see what you decide on. Nic is still around but not sure what happened with the plane thing, hard to compete or survive I imagine with FT and make a living at it I would say.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Oct 9, 2022 18:40:32 GMT
So I’m thinking of leaning toward the slower side mostly because of my piloting skills at this point. The KV is 540 but I’m not sure how that translates for a motor that is this big. I’m thinking a high wing might be my best bet for getting it back on the ground in one piece. Waht happened to Nerdnic? He had such a good thing going! Ok, from what I can tease out, as I am having a tough job finding specs on this motor, it should be pretty similar to this, right. valuehobby.com/g46-560kv.htmlThis should have a 45x38 stator. Looks like you are going for a 15-17 inch prop on 4S. So, in theory I have a couple of ideas. Making a giant AN-2 Annie would be cool. I know FT has that master series one, but it wouldn't be too hard to design yourself, it is pretty much a square plane. I think the FT one is supposed to take a 2814, or 3536 measured like the above motor. Also, any big single from that time period comes to mind. Northrop Delta is a fine looking plane. The lockheed model 9 and breese model 1 come to mind as well. Now if you are feeling really adventurous, and are wanting to preserve the spirit of DTFB, but try something new, I have an idea for you. You could built a SPAD. It was DTFB before people built planes from foam, we used coroplast instead. I have only built one, but it flew nice. That being said, that motor is equal to a .40-.55 and there are a couple of neat planes here. www.spadtothebone.org/PDF/Coro%20Cub.pdfwww.spadtothebone.org/PDF/Debonair.pdfYou could find all of the construction techniques here. www.spadtothebone.org/index.htmlThese are a lot heavier than DTFB, but still fly well, and are pretty tough planes too. I don't know how many times I stuffed mine, but they are made from coroplast and metal.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Oct 9, 2022 23:50:41 GMT
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Post by peanut on Oct 12, 2022 15:51:02 GMT
Hey you guys, Things have been busy and I have had very little "fun time”. I did have a chance to look up the planes you recommended Burkeomatic, all great by the way, and I agree with you on the Fairey. It looks like the plane I had imagined doing and yet better! It looks like a mash up of the Tiny Trainer, a Storch, and a Spitfire. Plus it’s the only one I could see myself having the skills to design since I won’t have plans to work with. I am a noob when it comes to that sort of thing. Thanks for the thoughts, I’ll let you know how it unfolds.
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Post by agentc on Oct 16, 2022 20:26:08 GMT
I'm looking into a few things to start building while it's too windy to fly and before the snow sets in for some silly winter flying (or when it's cold and I'm lazy). On my build list: 1. FT MM F22: I hear this plane has a great flight envelope, so want to see how true that is, and it's a quick and easy plane to throw together. 2. @racheroo's Bush Hawk. I'm probably most excited about this one, but have to either dismantle my current Mini Scout for parts, or just wait until I invariably crash it beyond repair. 3. Resized FT P-47 to take a stab at the Master Series build styles, whilst attempting to make it fly on a A-pack.
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Post by Burkeomatic on Oct 17, 2022 1:44:04 GMT
I'm looking into a few things to start building while it's too windy to fly and before the snow sets in for some silly winter flying (or when it's cold and I'm lazy). On my build list: 1. FT MM F22: I hear this plane has a great flight envelope, so want to see how true that is, and it's a quick and easy plane to throw together. 2. @racheroo's Bush Hawk. I'm probably most excited about this one, but have to either dismantle my current Mini Scout for parts, or just wait until I invariably crash it beyond repair. 3. Resized FT P-47 to take a stab at the Master Series build styles, whilst attempting to make it fly on a A-pack. Let us know how the scaling down of the MS goes. Also, check into the 13th squadron designs, I have built a couple of those and I like em. I built the F6F and the Zero. I find scaling down to the bigger size to the smaller, around 50-60 percent works, but ymmv. Just remember when you scale it down, the foam thickness won't scale down, so you are going to need to cut the channels wider than it scales down to.
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Post by peanut on Oct 17, 2022 16:44:49 GMT
I'm looking into a few things to start building while it's too windy to fly and before the snow sets in for some silly winter flying (or when it's cold and I'm lazy). On my build list: 1. FT MM F22: I hear this plane has a great flight envelope, so want to see how true that is, and it's a quick and easy plane to throw together. 2. @racheroo's Bush Hawk. I'm probably most excited about this one, but have to either dismantle my current Mini Scout for parts, or just wait until I invariably crash it beyond repair. 3. Resized FT P-47 to take a stab at the Master Series build styles, whilst attempting to make it fly on a A-pack. You may want to check out MiniacRC he has a great mini P47 that is a master series build that calls for an F pack but having built it looks like it would fly on an A pack. www.flitetest.com/articles/miniacrc-mighty-mini-p47-thunderbolt
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Post by agentc on Oct 17, 2022 23:15:01 GMT
Definitely going to do the Miniac RC P-47 instead. Thanks, peanut! I'm looking into a few things to start building while it's too windy to fly and before the snow sets in for some silly winter flying (or when it's cold and I'm lazy). On my build list: 1. FT MM F22: I hear this plane has a great flight envelope, so want to see how true that is, and it's a quick and easy plane to throw together. 2. @racheroo's Bush Hawk. I'm probably most excited about this one, but have to either dismantle my current Mini Scout for parts, or just wait until I invariably crash it beyond repair. 3. Resized FT P-47 to take a stab at the Master Series build styles, whilst attempting to make it fly on a A-pack. You may want to check out MiniacRC he has a great mini P47 that is a master series build that calls for an F pack but having built it looks like it would fly on an A pack. www.flitetest.com/articles/miniacrc-mighty-mini-p47-thunderbolt
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