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fly boy2 -> Foam combat plane (4/6/2008 4:46:00 AM)
I am trying to finish building a plane and I would like to build a cheap foam combat plane to help pass the time. Something that can be build in a day or two, and cheap to build . If anyone know of some plans or a link to a site.

yankee samurai -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/6/2008 5:37:58 PM)
www.jkaerotech.com

Montague -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/6/2008 6:41:17 PM)
Also, take a look at TufFlight, they make a number of planes that are designed to really take a beating, and fly quite well. http://www.tufflight.com/

batchelc -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/6/2008 10:39:01 PM)
You can do a search for the FUNK on the forums. Made form 3/4" pink insulation foam. If you want something with a real airfoil I've built a plane with foam core wings and a coro fuse. Cheap and light. I haven't maidened it yet, but I plan to next weekend (travelling a lot lately). I'm planning on offering kits with CNC cut foam core wings for $45 bucks. Let me know if your intersted. Look a few posts back in RC Combat for twin tail SSC design. Chris

fly boy2 -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/7/2008 4:07:23 AM)
If it does fly which it looks like it will, is there anyway you could shrink the 60'' span to a 30'' or smaller and do you think it could be ran with a brushless motor? Good Luck with maiden flight.

batchelc -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/15/2008 2:23:11 AM)
Fly boy2, Well the maiden went great! I could shrink it to a 30" span. Shrinking the span won''t cut weight that much but it will increase the wing loading (stall faster). For a 30" wing it would probably make sense to cut it as 1 piece. I can do up to 48" on a single piece. What size brushless are you looking at? Chris

fly boy2 -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/19/2008 12:48:56 AM)
Well first can I ask you is this? How well does it handle, like a noob or a novice can fly it, cause I'm still a bit in the beginner stage. and I really don't know what size of brushless motor or any kind of motor , I guess a motor that it pretty cheap. lol I might have a few R/C cars I can take it out of. lol [:)]

batchelc -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/19/2008 12:41:15 PM)
Flyboy, I wouldn't really know too much about converting a car electric motor to airplane R/C. I'm sure it can be done, but you would have to delvelop everything. The plane that I have designed uses a cheap 0.15 glow motor (60 bucks new, 30 buck os ebay). Electrics are going to cost many times more than that for a moror, batteries and speed control. I flew the airplane again last night. I added some differential to the ailerons (one goes up more than the other goes down) and some additional vertical fin (rudder) area and I am much happier with the way it flies. It's very stable and could easily be flown by a noob. I'm not sure that scaling it down would have the same flying qualities. Smaller airplanes tend to be twitchie. Chris

fly boy2 -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/20/2008 12:48:18 AM)
Its a 4 channel right. Can it go in inverted and do a snap roll? Do you have a video of the flight, if so can you sent it to me?

batchelc -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/20/2008 4:41:41 AM)
Videos and pics at: http://www.wichitapilot.com/page.php?pageid=26 It's a 3 channel (ailerons, elevator, throttle) so no snap rolls. But it's easy to fly and lands slow. It can fly inverted and requires some elevator to stay inverted.

Montague -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/21/2008 3:18:42 PM)
You don't need a rudder to snaproll, you just need enough elevator. A rearward CG helps as well. My SSC class planes will snaproll if I use ailerons and elevator, and yes, it's a real snaproll, not a barrel roll. But if you're looking for nice acrobatics, you do need that rudder. Of course in combat we generally try to avoid snaprolls

fly boy2 -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/23/2008 1:16:37 AM)
how much do you think you will sell it for? and it it assembled except for engine and radio when you sell them

batchelc -> RE: Foam combat plane (4/23/2008 3:23:37 AM)
Flyboy I sent you a PM. Chris

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