Running a little short on active planes after many crashes over the year and all work being queued behind the spaceship project, which is now on hold until I design the ducts in CAD. So decided to start another ‘improv’ plane. Step 1) Get a blueprint of a Bristol Beaufort, Step 2) Scale it to 5 inch props and see how its wingspan and fuselage look. Step 3) take a note on the wingspan then just make it up from there. 😁
Yesterday, I set up most of an 80mm wide wing with a nice thick airfoil, soldered some bullet connectors to a pair of motors and cut out some firewall pieces:
Today, I soldered connectors onto the ESCs and assembled the ‘engine cores’ that will be able to go into 9mm slots in the wing. ESCs will be going in the wing with some ‘radiator’ holes cut into the leading edge.
I plan to add a plywood spar to the wing to help hold the polyhedral form and serve as an anchor point for the engine cores. But first I need to set up some Y-links and bench test these motors.