I've been designing my own scale, flyable paper airplane models for many years, for my own amusement. Mostly gliders, but a few electric free flight as well. In September of last year I started a quest to upgrade my odd little hobby to radio control. What followed was a rather long (16 page) thread which documented the design and building of a 1/24 scale Se5a. You can still find this thread under Radio Control/ Need Advice About RC options......
This gripping account told more than anybody needs to know about the process of going from a hare brained concept to an actual working prototype and indoor short hop testing & first crash. It is chock full of photos that are frankly awful - taken with a low res photo cam as things were a-building. Tiny and/or blurry.
This new thread is devoted to showing off my model with high resolution photos taken during the rebuild of the Se5a, in anticipation of an outdoor test flight whenever it actually stops raining in south east Ohio, USA.
The pix focus on how the electronics fit into the airframe. Nothing about how the wings and tail surfaces are built up from flat patterns, which is quite interesting to me, but probably much less so to anybody else. Maybe later.
Here is my beauty, in pre-production white. Color printing is expensive, so my prototypes are traditionally "white wings." Hope this grabs your attention, the electronically painted color version is much prettier!
My thanks to fellow Zealot Poster, quadcopter guru and 3d printer Schorhr, who gave the technical help to get started and the encouragement to keep going.:thumb:
This gripping account told more than anybody needs to know about the process of going from a hare brained concept to an actual working prototype and indoor short hop testing & first crash. It is chock full of photos that are frankly awful - taken with a low res photo cam as things were a-building. Tiny and/or blurry.
This new thread is devoted to showing off my model with high resolution photos taken during the rebuild of the Se5a, in anticipation of an outdoor test flight whenever it actually stops raining in south east Ohio, USA.
The pix focus on how the electronics fit into the airframe. Nothing about how the wings and tail surfaces are built up from flat patterns, which is quite interesting to me, but probably much less so to anybody else. Maybe later.
Here is my beauty, in pre-production white. Color printing is expensive, so my prototypes are traditionally "white wings." Hope this grabs your attention, the electronically painted color version is much prettier!
My thanks to fellow Zealot Poster, quadcopter guru and 3d printer Schorhr, who gave the technical help to get started and the encouragement to keep going.:thumb: