telnar1236
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Here is the 50mm F-104. The gear was a bit weak, so you might want to design your own if you try to build it. Also, it should not be covered with aluminum foil. I ended up losing the plane due to signal loss. However, it is the most scale plane (of any type) I've ever designed, built or owned, and has things like fully internal controls and leading-edge flaps which you don't even see on most 80mm and 90mm jets.
3D Printed 50mm F-104 Starfighter
After a fair bit of time messing around with 80mm and 64mm EDF versions of the F-104 Starfighter, I have decided to revisit a light weight 50mm version that could be flown at a decently large park. Using a combination of 3D printing in LW PLA for the fuselage and vertical stabilizer and balsa...
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More recently, I designed a 70mm F-104 as well. I should be posting the STLs, GCode, and full build instructions in the next few days. It's a lot less scale, but it can be printed with ordinary PLA and is hugely simpler to build (2 weeks vs. a couple months). It is also modular and parts of it will be compatible with other jets I plan to release soon.
Modular F-104 70mm EDF Jet development and testing
I've been toying with the idea of a modular plane for a while. The two big advantages are that it would give a similar versatility to Flite Test Swappables for experimenting with different configurations, and, if a part was broken, you could just replace that part instead of rebuilding large...
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