Saturday, December 11, 2010

RC Airplanes I'm building

A couple more planes that I'm working on right now.

Setting up wing for Zippty Do Da

Here I creasing the foam so I can shape it into an airfoil, the foam is about 5mm thick, (1/4") or so.

This is my first try at a Ducted fan airplane ant this is the front end of the Zippty Do Da, wasn't enough to fly so set it aside for now.

I rubbed on some blue paint with a cloth, looks kind of poopy I guess.

My smallest airplane so far and I had some tiny motors, I didn't think 2 would fly it so I put on 4.  Well even 4 little motors didn't do the job so sidelined this one.


Midge Quad from front on.

This is a boat that I bought at a thrift shop and I have mounted a Ducted Fan on it .
The fan wasn't enough to power the boat, need a bigger one, sidelined.

I built the biggest boat this past year and it's a 1/4 scale Cracker Box Racer and 48" long, the other one I bought at a thrift shop and I have mounted a Ducted Fan on it and it's 40" long, I haven't run either of them yet.
Tried the Cracker Box in the swimming pool but couldn't get it to go straight so I gave up on it.


This is the transom of my 48" Cracker Box Racer, I built a home made rudder and don't know if it will work or not.

Beginnings of my 48" Cracker Box Racer.

New Planes I'm building

These are three airplanes that I'm building right now, two are built using Blue Foam that I got at Lowes a few years ago so I thought I would see if I could build something out of it.  Here are some pictures of it part way done and the blue one hanging up is one that I have had for several years and is regular construction.  Finished this but never tried to fly it as of 2016.

Trying to figure out how to mount a canopy.

Regular construction Something Extra, it has been crashed and rebuilt a few times.

Doing some repair work on the blue SE wing.

Starting on wing construction.

Putting in some dowels to hold the front of the wing in place.

I was just getting started with the wing here.