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Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

10-01-2007, 08:21 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

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Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Here's the Cosair so far. 47 1/4" WS. 490 gr empty airframe, 850 gr with electronics all onboard. Converting this from a full size, I didn't take into accout how big and heavy the engine was in the...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

10-01-2007, 03:38 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Very nice set of plans. Might be a good one to attempt this winter, for me.

Found a sheet of what appears to be Depron, laminated on each side with hard clear plastic, in the dumpster.
Built a...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

09-24-2007, 02:38 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Wow been a long time since this thread started up. And a long time since my first Nasty build.

Anyhow decided it was time again for another Nasty. And this one is different. First off instead of...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

09-06-2006, 03:43 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

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Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Ummm Mark I was present when you landed a certain someones SS.
Inverted if I remember correctly. So why do you need wheels???????:)

Landing was a thing of beauty though. Never saw a SS do a...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-21-2006, 10:38 AM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Five string,
Bummer on the loss. One thing with FF, it's a quick cheap resurection.

I have a calc program at home that you plug in the numbers on your wing and horizontal stabilizer, if...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-20-2006, 08:37 AM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

five string,
It's called Murphy's Law. No matter how well you fly, you will always manage to hit the lone(tree,pole,car, piece of pavement,etc) that exists in a 5 mile radius. LOL

My best...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-20-2006, 05:27 AM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

five string,
Sweet looking paint job!!!!!!:D

Nother tip on hinging. If you use tape, and want it to really stick. Tape off the area that the tape will stick to on both the wing and...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-18-2006, 06:38 AM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Nicely done coolbean, kinda looks like a Stryker.

Tip on CA hinges I picked up, works well. Draw a line on your hinge point, with a crayon, on both sides of the hinge. The wax slows down the CA...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-17-2006, 06:55 AM

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Fun with Flat Foam

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Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

five-string,
Do you have any more info on the lights you bought?
Are they LED's?
I have a Slo-V, code name "SPOOKY" that runs somewhere around 67 LED's on it.
37 single colors, red, blue,...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-14-2006, 09:01 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Yeah I ran into the same problem. I used 2 1320 packs parallel wired to help with the CG, until I used the 3100 pack. I really doubt adding nose weight is going to affect the performance that much....

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-14-2006, 07:10 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Ok some notes. The servos are just hot glued into place, the Rx is stuck in place with a little velcro( remove the tissue coating from the fanfold) so you get a better stick. Esc is hot glued in...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-14-2006, 06:36 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

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Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Ok time to cut the LE's into the wing. I simply drew a line 1/4" in from the LE on the top and bottom halfs. Then used an exacto knife to cut from the line to the center of the LE tip, on both sides....

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-14-2006, 06:23 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Well that's the wing, really hard wasn't it. LOL
Time to build the Coffin. Starting at the "head" of the coffin, it's 3" wide, and spreads out to 8" wide, approx 5 1/4" down from the top. Then...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-14-2006, 05:57 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Da Flying Coffin build.
Basicly you will need 2 sheets of fan fold to build this puppy. I pretty much winged it on this build so I'll take measurements as I go, if you have any questions or if...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-14-2006, 12:10 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

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Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

I'll try and get the photos and info up tonight. Yes the wing is airfoil shaped.
No folding necessary. ;)
Running a Rimfire brushless outrunner, spinning a 10x8 prop, on 3s lipo.

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-14-2006, 05:12 AM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Twins, now you are talking my language!

Here's the "Flying Coffin"
If anyone is interested I did save the build photos. The "Lid" opens up to access all the electronics and the pack.
Can be...

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-13-2006, 03:15 PM

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Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

AJ,
I'll post a shot when I get home. It flies sweet. Kinda like a Mugi, blue fan fold construction.

Forum: Foamies! - RC Electric Foam Aircraft

04-13-2006, 01:37 PM

Replies: 3,404

Fun with Flat Foam

Views: 357,585

Posted By Glacier Girl

RE: Fun with Flat Foam

Dang Beav,
Heck of a forum you have going here. I didn't even know you had it going.
You going to show em how to bend foam next? Like on the F16?
Look in the backround you'll see a Nasty and...

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