Monday, January 23, 2012

Home-built RC plane

Well, I saw this guy build an RC plane from foam board and off the shelf parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC6-ljrSpgA

so i figured I shoudl probably give it a shot. it's all together, but I haven't had a good day to try to get it into the air yet. I have a couple different motor, battery, and prop combinations to test out as well...

http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m112/shinymax/?action=view¤t=cab40b43.mp4

UPDATE: well, it flies! And pretty well too. Some center-of-gravity tweaking still to do, but 5 flights, 3 crashes, and a lot of easy Popsicle-stick-and-hot-glue repairs later, I'm quite pleased with the performance. Have to get some in-flight video now.


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