Digger-RCU

Greetings all,

I am interested where everyone is on their designs.

As it looks.

Wild fred-- F104 Starfighter Done
Digger -- F9F Panther Done
Dickeybird -- Gyro 93%
Matchlessaero -- Caudron 89%
Lone Ranger -- LBBBA 95%
flyinrog -- working hard on an idea!
Bmatthews -- Plans done
Bipeflyer -- ultimate bipe plans done, 15% Done
Goldguy -- Gyro ?%
soarrich -- Cabin biplane 40%?
Fastlash -- Reno Racer me 109 Not sure
if he will compete
Prole -- Taylorcraft 20%
Phuffstatler -- it's a secret
Dave Campbell -- ??
AV8RSODT -- Angler, Plans done 10% Construction done
MyNameis AARON -- ??
RyanRink -- ??
Jtech & Son -- "No name" 20%done


Please update with progress. We dont know what 1/2 of y'all are building. If you havent decided yet. Get to work! I will update this list as folks post.

Thanks all!

Randy (Digger) Birt

BMatthews

Plans are almost done and some cutting is going to happen this week. I hope I can get it in under the wire. Too many truck and house projects....... not to mention the time I spend HERE keeping you guys out of trouble...

prole

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I'm working on a Taylor Craft, 38" span 245 squares, I printed out the first version of the plans yesterday and went to work on the few little changes that I could see might make it look a little better.

I got all of the wood but my LHS is out of 1/32 x 4 sheets so I have to wait for those. I have the foam cores for the wings, the flight pack and just ordered the throttle sleeves for the engine.


I'm still not sure about the engine, I know that it is going to be a Cox Reed, I am thinking about a Golden Bee...

I still have to get that.


I would say I'm at about 20%


t-theprole-

ps, what is the formula for determining the wing loading

DICKEYBIRD

Divide your wing area (in square inches) by 144 to get the area in sq. ft., then divide the total weight (in oz.) by the number of square ft. That gives you oz. per sq. ft.

LoneRanger

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change Fastlash's to "Where There's a Will There's a Way"



mine is an accurate %age though!



L.R.

soarrich

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Still haven't decided if it's the bipe or somethin' else, BTW I bought the engines for somethin' else last night.

I'm going to Chicago Wednesday for five days so when I get back I'll know what I'm going to enter.

I did the fuse formers for the bipe, but may go ahead and make the fuse out of sheet.

When I get building I crank them out pretty quickly, being a Bum I can devote 2~3 days to it without a break.

matchlessaero

Well, I don't think I am at 75%, but it definitely looks like an airplane. I took a little time tonite to make the landing gear mounts and to install them. Also bent the gear and test fitted the wheels.

Its sittin' on the Missuss's kitchen table right now under the light lookin at me and sayin' "are ya gonna finish me or what!"

jtech

Plans? % complete?? We have just started; been working a lot. I'll try to attach a pic.

Bipe Flyer

I wrote an online wing loading calculator. You can try it out at this link.

http://www.missionwings.com/loading.asp

flyinrog

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well digger, what a minute thats doesnt come out quite right does it? ok Digger, I am still on the fence as to what I am building Demoiselle, Air Bike, Gee Bee Z, flying turd, screamin Lizard, ,,wonder if I could make a beanie hat with an 049 for a squirrel..hey if nothing else,, squirrel chalupa's for dinner right?just not sure, good news is I found another LHS right by my folks house, its an art supply store and the guy is going hobby and is a great planes dist......not my favorite group but its a start.......Rog

jtech

I'll try again to attach pics after reducing pic sizes.

Norvel powered 267 sq*in weight lifter; need to carry about 8 Oz of fuel!

jtech

How do I attach multiple pics?

jtech

?

LoneRanger

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you dont attach multiple pictures with one post- they have to be posted 1 pic per post, that's why you see everyone doing one pic per post and not a load of them in one shot-


L.R.

av8rsodt

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Design name:
"Angler" - given the triangular fuselage and angles.

Design Goal:
A fun little Cox .049 TD aerobatic plane w/ good performance (hopefully) that is easy to build.

Basic specs:
Wingspan: 35.5"
Fuselage: 30"

Status:
I have completed the CAD drawings, need to get them printed and have the wing ribs and other components laser cut (1st time in doing this - so crossing my fingers).

Hope to get started on building it this week... (I also have 2 little kids - so it has been interesting). Would love to get some of the new NIMH or Lithium batteries since they are lighter = better flight performance. Still investigating.

Av8rsodt (Brian)

DICKEYBIRD

My kinda guy....lookit all them sticks Matilda!

Put a leash on them 'lil punki-doodles and get busy!

flyinrog

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Ok, sent my money into Soarrich, so I am comitted ,not sure to what but, I'm thinking of designing/copying a parkflyer at this point, ,an .049 throttled balsa minimax....Rog

wild fred

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wow! jtec, is it 3-channel? it will turn well on rudder. I put a slimline 8 on a lazy bee w/ a 15, yours oughta fly over an hour on that w/ 061!

brian; it looks like a scaled down full size ultralight, or something. definately cool, and should fly awesome.

keep them coming, guys, this is the most interesting thing I have found on the internet!

Bipe Flyer

OK, here's my revised entry. I switched from the GeeBee to an Ultimate. I just couldn't resist the urge to build another biplane.

Span: 24.5"
Length: 26"
Weight: Under a pound (fingers crossed)
Channels: 4
Engine: Norvel BigMig .061
Construction: Foam wings/Balsa Fuse

Plans 100% done, building 0% done.

phuffstatler

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soarrich, could you PM me your home address, so that I may send a MO to you? I can't stand that paypal stuff, and haven't used it in years...


As to what I'm doing, it's a secret... I've done some drawings, but were done by hand, not on the computer, and I don't have a scanner anymore....


stay tuned...

phil in austin

av8rsodt

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Wild Fred -

Thanks - I am hoping it will fly good. Can't wait to get started, hopefully this weekend. My goal is to make it as light as possible along with being decent looking. Probably will cover it in opaque missile red & transparent blue monocote (I agree with the moneycote comment I read earlier).

Brian (Av8rsodt)

brian; it looks like a scaled down full size ultralight, or something. definately cool, and should fly awesome.

flyinrog

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Okay I'm seeing all you talented folk making good flying, nice looking designs and even finished planes already,,, so I gotta fess up and tell ya'll, I'm just hoping I can throw something together that will fly.......looking at coroplast that I found today along with the sandwich foam yee haw! in a craft shop,does ca work on coroplast ok? I doubt glow would mix well with the foam but I am a parkflyer too.....got an idea for the next plane but no way I could do it in time, anybody got any Gee Bee Z 1/2a plans ,not that I could actually fly it yet but ,like the way they look!........Rog

prole

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So I finially have a set of plans that I would be happy to show all of you.

Only problem is, I can't figure out how to do it.

BipeFlyer and Av8rsodt, I am using the TurboCAD program that DickeyBird hooked us up with. How are you guys saving those images in a format that will show on the posts?

I have tried importing it into Photoshop, cutting and pasting, even tried to add it on a Word document.

What is the secret?

Thanks...


the prole

av8rsodt

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Prole,

I just printed out my AutoCad drawing on paper and then scanned it as a JPEG.

From there I did the usual sizing of the JPEG to the number of pixels allowed by the RCU system.

Can't wait to see what you got!

Av8rsodt

wild fred

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rog; about gee bee; I got a set of plans for a 1/2a gee bee sportster on the way from rcm plans! plan pl-35, 6 bucks. attached pic from their site. pretty cool, huh? from 1968!
arrgh! just posted this, then realized I'm off subject of this thread! how do I move it?