Vicissitude
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Im thinking about building my first airplane. I have a pretty beat up firebird stratos and i was thinking about using some of the parts to make a wing. First question is my stepdad works for NASA a shop, and hes actually made fiberglass stuff for people before, i was wondering if fiberglass is decent for a plane frame, likely a wing. The other thing i was wondering about is thrust vectoring with a wing. I was thinking it would be possible to thrust vector it so that you didnt need elevons, you could use the vectoring for vertical motion and just have elevators. Or the other solution, which might be a little bit crazy is to have two vectored motors on each side of the wing and just have a solid wing with no moving parts. My only concern is that with thrust vectoring you need servos that are more powerful than average because more force is involved when moving a motor instead of an elevator/rudder/etc.
I was going to make a mini wing, probably around 1-1.5 foot wingspan. Any idea if any of these ideas would work for that?
I was going to make a mini wing, probably around 1-1.5 foot wingspan. Any idea if any of these ideas would work for that?