Scratch built Star Wars A-Wing
 

Hey gang! I have been building a scratch built A-Wing fighter from the Star Wars series. I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan in the world, I just liked the ship and I thought that it would fly. I have been posting my progress on a different forum, and I thought I would connect the two together so I could get some more input. Here's a few pics and a link to the other post. Thanks and your help is great appriciated.

[link]http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=717172[/link]

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Looks good, definetly different. Don't know about it flying, got lots of lifting body area there, who knows. Any thoughts as to power system yet?

Andy

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It should fly. I build and glide tested a smaller paper version and it went well. I'll be using two EDF-55-300 ducted fans to push this along and with a final weight below 20oz. they should push it along just fine.

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COOL! :)

Why wouldn't it fly?

I've seen a lawn mower and a dog house and a witch on a broom fly... ;)

Nobody said it was gonna handle well. ;)

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that thing is prety cool. Next time they have the rose parade and the whole group of star wars freaks comes out, you can fly over them. Hope it works.

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It looks great. Nice job!

It would make a cool looking rocket too.

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Thanks guys. See now I know what to do to this thing if it doesn't work lmao. I posted some more pics on my other build thread, here's one of the photos.

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thats really cool i like it

i want someone to make a x-wing
that would be pretty tough tho.

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X-Wings have been done and i wanted to try something WAY different. Besides if I was to try another one it would be a B-Wing:D

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Here's an updated photo of my progress. I should be working on the ailerons and elevators tomorrow.

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Those slots in the side, are they going to be the air intakes? Are you going with elevons or seperate alieron/elevator controls? Oh, never mind, three servos, I guess that answers my question... unless you're figuring on rudders as well.....

Andy

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Yes the slots on the sides are intakes for the engines. This model will have separate ailerons, elevators, and a rudder system.

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As a matter of fact here's how the ailerons are gonna turn out.

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Tons of control surface...Wow!
It looks great! I hope it works.

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are you scratch building all this with no plans or is it based on an estes rocket A-wing fighter or something ?

It looks awesome. You have some nice tallent there for scratch building foamies.

If it flies, I'd like one too :) I'll pay ya to build it. I too love he A wing, and the B-wing would be badd***** !

Make 2 when you decide to do the B wing ;)

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DJ,
That is really cool, and I hope it flies. It looks great. You have a great imagination and a talent for building as well. Good luck with it.
Tommy

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Thanks for the kind words guys. I'm scratch building this project from a 3-view and other pictures. I feel that it should take to the sky but I'm not 100% sure. I'm building it with the right intentions I just hope it's not all in vain. I pretty much just started with a thought that was keeping me up at night, found a 3-view of the A-Wing, and took it to Office Max and had it enlarged to scale.

As for a B-Wing... I already have the plans[8D]

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Got some more work done today. Finished the cockpit and did some body filling.

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Decided to build the guns and get them on today.

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Got a little paint work done. Just waiting on some nice weather.

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did this thing fly ok??? it looks really cool, nice job on the build.