Aussie Damo

does anyone have or know where to get 1/2A SPad plans, ive tried spadtothebone.com but all theirs are for bigger sizes any help would be great

BMatthews

Someone here or that dropped by a while back played with 1/2A spad designs and his general feeling was that they were too heavy to fly well as I recall. Now if you were to get the very thinnest (3 or 2 mm?) coro and design to suit the material I think it would work well. But so far no one I know of has come up with any really decent high performance designs. Certainly the usual chop-chop designs do not translate well to smaller sizes.

propbuster

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I agree on the weight factor. I've done some experimenting with coroplast, and the standard 4 mil stuff you can find from old signs just won't work. 2 mil stuff might work out better, but it's not generally available unless you order some from a supplier. Now, there's a type of foam board with a thin papered skin on it I've seen in the craft stores that I'm going to try out.

flyinrog

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http://spadworld.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4394

this is about as small as they get its for a norvel .074....Rog

flying poodle

Its not made of coro but Crazyherbs cheap delta is as close to the spad way of building that you can get. Find it at www.crazyherb.com. It flies great too.

Andrew

I took Herb's plans for his 36" Cheap Delta and scaled them back to a 30" span. The 30/36 scaling ratio works very well with the larger dimensions. I also used 1/2" blue foam instead of 3/4". With a little planning, you can cut 8 complete planes from a 4x8 sheet.

Like FP said, it flies pretty well (especially for a $3.00 plane).

Aussie Damo

thanks guys, if i find some 2mm coro ill give it a try thanks

mattkoskiman1

I have tryed the elmers foampaper stuff and all I have to do is put in the rc stuff, it feels extremly light!.

KidEpoxy

Can't remember who, but a guy made a lttle bipe from styro meat trays & some balsa, we figured it could be all meat tray but the firewall... I'll try to find the thread

[link=http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_3237386/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm]http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_3237386/mpage_1/key_/tm.htm[/link]

That may be more modeling than you want to do, but the construction medium & techniques could be used on a spad design... and oops, the DR1 is a triplane, not a bipe