I was chatting with FlyingMonkey a bit ago and he was pitching some contest ideas. One of those was "build an airplane from a single sheet of foam board." I already had a set up plans from my very first scratch build that I actually could scale up to meet this requirement. My very first scratch build was intended to be a micro flier of my favorite civilian airplane, the Globe Temco Swift.
This plane was produced from 1946 into 1951. The wings and tail feathers have the lines of a P-40. One of the designers of the production model was one of those who designed the P-40. It is simply a beautiful aircraft.
This version won't do it justice, but being intended to be built from a single sheet of dollar store foam I can't expect too much. I'll build a nice, scale version one of these days. Here is what I have so far:
I'm playing around with the idea of making my own retracts for this using the landing gear from my 800mm Spitfire. It would be fairly easy to do, but I don't know how well it would hold up. Might be worth a shot, though. The canopy and cowling will be formed from 2 liter soda bottles. I gave up on the single sheet idea. I could have done it if I used a KF airfoil, but can't bring myself to use that on a Swift.
I'm going to power it with a Emax CF2812 with a 7x4e prop. Should be quite fast.
This plane was produced from 1946 into 1951. The wings and tail feathers have the lines of a P-40. One of the designers of the production model was one of those who designed the P-40. It is simply a beautiful aircraft.
This version won't do it justice, but being intended to be built from a single sheet of dollar store foam I can't expect too much. I'll build a nice, scale version one of these days. Here is what I have so far:
I'm playing around with the idea of making my own retracts for this using the landing gear from my 800mm Spitfire. It would be fairly easy to do, but I don't know how well it would hold up. Might be worth a shot, though. The canopy and cowling will be formed from 2 liter soda bottles. I gave up on the single sheet idea. I could have done it if I used a KF airfoil, but can't bring myself to use that on a Swift.
I'm going to power it with a Emax CF2812 with a 7x4e prop. Should be quite fast.