Julius Perdana F-35

[Burkeomatic]

If you haven't heard of this dude, he is a great modeler. 

I have wanted an F35 so here we go. 


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If you look at the plans, they are awesome, but they are a hundred tiny pieces glued together. They don't have DTFB where he is from, so as I go I am converting the plans to be more fold and mold type of stuff. So hopefully it will simplify it and I can finally get you all off your butts and fly jets with me. 

It is just going to be a 70mm edf on 4s, but looks promising. Hopefully I can get it flying like the mig. He has an option for landing gear too. 

I will make stls for the plywood parts too, so you can be lazy and print them like me. 

[Burkeomatic]

[droneflyer200]

Wow that's going together quick! ITs kind of interesting to me now as well since the Airforce up here in Canada are buying F35s to replace the older F18 super hornets.

[Burkeomatic]

Jan 15, 2023 5:02:20 GMT droneflyer200 said:

Wow that's going together quick! ITs kind of interesting to me now as well since the Airforce up here in Canada are buying F35s to replace the older F18 super hornets.

Are they going to be the CF35?

I love the way we wont sell the raptor to anyone but we will hand out the F35 like candy.

Which only means we have something better coming up.

Progress.

[droneflyer200]

Yup they will be CF35s like that makes any difference. There is always something startling coming done the pipe.

[Burkeomatic]

EDF installed and hatch made. All i need is canopy, nose, servos, and vstabs.

[ratcheeroo]

Nice job!! He has several jets that I would like to take a stab at. I gutted the F-22 for its parts and have a start on a new project. I have a lot of things on the go just haven't had any time to spend here and post it and catch up with everything here. New stuff coming shortly. Can't wait to see this one finished up though, should be sweet!!

[Burkeomatic]

Jan 17, 2023 21:57:38 GMT ratcheeroo said:

Nice job!! He has several jets that I would like to take a stab at. I gutted the F-22 for its parts and have a start on a new project. I have a lot of things on the go just haven't had any time to spend here and post it and catch up with everything here. New stuff coming shortly. Can't wait to see this one finished up though, should be sweet!!

Thanks, Julius has some nice designs, they aren't your typical DTFB fold em up designs, but part of where I get my inspiration and ideas is trying other builders and techniques. 

Don't know if I mentioned it, but I went ahead and ordered a couple of 6s batteries for this.... so it should be powerful. 

I am also looking at making a jet that can run the ducted fan I designed. Is your 3d printer back online, because I have a couple of things you need to print.... the sabre is excellent, and you can make ducted fans out of 7 dollar aliexpress motors now. 

[ratcheeroo]

yep I finally got it back up and running last week, I watched your test run of that ducted fan , very impressive!!

[Burkeomatic]

I haven't decided whether I want to fire out a canopy in fusion or just make a dtfb one

[droneflyer200]

Looking good!

[Burkeomatic]

This thing looks sweet.

[Burkeomatic]

This thing is such a nice flier.

I thought jets were supposed to be hard to fly.

10/10.

Took 70% throttle and a medium toss and it was off.

The thing will just float at 70% throttle or rip.

I stalled it a little landing and it basically just stopped forward motion and didn't think about dropping the nose until all forward motion was lost.

Great plane, I highly encourage yall to build one.

[droneflyer200]

ok if it flies that well I may make it my first stab at edf jet models I have been itching to try them for the shear cool factor. I also want to scratch build a cine-whoop ! and take a stab at FPV!

[ratcheeroo]

Nice job!!