Ptarmigan

Does anyone here design their own airplane for RC flying, besides basing it on an actual airplane? After I am flying solo, I plan to design my own airplanes, rather then do scale.

Hossfly

Hey Man, you been talking about getting soloed for a long time. I believe you are active at Scobee fld. While I also belong tom the Scobee BCF Club, my main club is way over Northeast at Jetero.
We have a great grass runway with good facilities, maybe not as nice as the public-funded but we OWN ours. In addition, training doesn't have to be under the gun of every tom,dick and harry.

Anyway, you and I need a couple afternoons together and you will be designing your own machines or whatever and flying them all by yourself.

Problem is I soon migrate up north, so if you are seriously interested in getting SOLO, You can be a guest for 3 days at Jetero. That should be plenty, but it has to happen within the next month or so. AMA is a MUST!
I have trainer stuff for Airtronics, JR, and the Futaba/Hitec. Name your posion.

Designing models is a no brainer. Make some measurements, eyeball some basic parameters and here is a 4 day 65" w/s Fun-Flier, now near 3 years old.

Ptarmigan

Hey there. Yes I am actually close to getting solo, by another instructor at Scobee Field. Do you go there a lot?

cabanestrut2002

i do it all the time, most fly well, some dont
its very good fun though
heres my o/d 3d model, os 20fp. very successful

cabanestrut2002

o/d speed model, yet to fly.
os45fsr and pipe

cabanestrut2002

1/2 a model, cox 0.049

cabanestrut2002

hand launch glider, very successful

phuffstatler

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to the 1/2 A forum, we've got a contest finishing up there...

Here's my design.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/showthread...39&forumid=161]

Dewey12

Congrats for choosing to be different. The trend towards square cheese boxes and BARF's has made me sick to say the least. Try to put some aerodynamic shapes into your design and make the other guys jealous. Good luck and have fun with your next project. Duane

pinball-RCU

Spad builders (www.spadtothebone.com) do a lot of their own design, mostly starting with an existing design and modifying it. The nice thing is the planes build so fast and cheap that you can afford to try a lot of stuff and make a lot of mistakes!

Tattoo

I do it all the time...several hundred times (I lost count a long time ago)...and the best ones are on the web site that Pinball mentioned. Thanks Pinball!!!!

AQ500

Designing your own plane is half the fun. Every other palne I build is of my own design. The one in my Avatar was my latest. It had a gravity related incident and version two is just getting off the drawing board.

redrocker

Yeah- been doing my own designs for a few decades. Quite rewarding! Some of my early efforts were questionable, but I have settled in to building 91 4 stroke size aerobatic planes. I always stick with a good wing rib pattern that I know works, but beyond that I just follow some basic parameters and hang a big engine on it and off you go. I build very light, never add weight to balance- just move the battery pack around. This is a really INEXPENSIVE way to enjoy the hobby. The radios and engines and hardware I just move from plane to plane, so the biggest investment I have in any single plane is the monocote.

phuffstatler

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It's good to see some folks not falling into the BARF (Basically Almost Ready to Fly) and NARF (Not Almost Ready to Fly) hole... It's extremely rewarding to create your own aircraft from sticks and pieces, and send it into the heavens... Nothing else quite like it...

What's really funny, is to read some of the ARF forum comments. Most folks complain and complain about this and that, and they wonder why some Asian making .11 cents an hour 14 hours a day can't make every airplane just the way he/she would want it. I wonder what they really expected from a box in a box on a boat from far away...


Sorry, didn't mean to make it a BARF bashing message...
phil in austin

redrocker

Some of my scratch builds have flown quite good, and I have had other club members ask if I would build them a copy of what I was flying. I have thought about that question, but I always decline, for a couple reasons: no two of my scratch builds have ever looked alike, and when I add up the number of hours I put into one of my projects, there is no way I am going to build one for someone else.

Guys have offered to pay me well for a plane, but that looks like a good way to ruin the hobby.

Dago Red

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This my design , MFD-1
floes great with the only bad habit of tip stall. does good roles, long but good, almost flat spin, and what not, only flown 4 times.