neat idea, and i could see you building the millennium falcon in 3 par sects using the FT techniques for $tree foam board. besides with the new star wars movie coming out, and one of the tease vids showed the old girl in all her gloring flying through the sky.. you know there is gonna be many young boys dreaming of flying the falcon to help defeat the evil imperialist bad guys... heh iv seen others get the shape/leds etc down.. but it was just to heavy, i think by using foam board you could get away with it.. it be much lighter than plastic that others have used and how i would look at a build with this.. scale plane.. heh, team nano here.. slow and sure.. and walk of shame is A. O.K.. with the saved weight you could record the falcon engine sounds off the VHS, and turn that into the MP3 for the sound module"D
ok, im starting let my creative brain cells over rule common logic..
but what this foam board would allow you to do is build a cool UFO.. most UFO i see just seem way to heavy.. and its because they are using pink foam, and fiberglass? or plastic, etc.. with foam board, as the FT have proven its plenty strong. and if you fly like team nana should be ok for lots of flights. thinking about the possible UFO air frames one could build.. that one episode of the Brady Bunch comes to mind when the kids faked a UFO via sheet, close line and a flash light.. ( we use to be so simple minded back in the day, sigh ).. man i think i just admitted i watched the Brady Bunch as a kid.. oh peter what have you done. cindy is crying.
( its amazing how you can find a single memory from our youth with a click of a mouse.
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by the way was it you who built the helicoptor that had wings, i thought that was such a great idea.. if it was not man i wish i could find that link for inspiration.. i think being able to have wings that open up, you could increase your flight time via by just gliding some on MR by quite a bit, at least enough to save you from a puff battery maybe
plus i like controlled crash landings epic stuff.
i think a air frame using foam wings to extract with a toggle could be done pretty easy id use say the Apache for a air frame.. the stick i guess would be having the wings be able to fan out as you could get more wing surface that way.. but heck it still be neat if all we could o were F16 style delta wings to open and close.. you could hide part of the wing under the heli landing pads, and since it be a tri-coptor the wings would take up the shape of the tail and look cool i think.. well i can see it in my mind. maybe one day ill have the skill to make it happen.
look forward to your future posts on this project. i have 2 cases of dollar tree foam in the corner.. as when i first got into this hobby a few months back via FT videos, i thought i wold be into building planes as i love to build things, and i did find a lot of enjoyment out of the process of building the mini speedster.. iv only built one mini speedster, and 3 chick gliders for my nephews to throw around so far.. i was there fav uncle that sunday.. cheap toys sure ( but heavy on the wow cool factor, as they were bigger than there other toys.. )
chris.
