How to make FT style plans?

[L Edge]

People who have made their own designs before, How hard is it to design a plane? What do you need to have for the plane to fly? Do you just need a big enough wing, good power, and a good cg? Or is it more complicated than that?

My motto is "I design things that don't exist". Hence, I just use paper and cut and paste and work on the many problems that exist. It is complicated as you said. You must look at airflows, structural and forces that act, react on your design. I do a lot of "white paper" research and experiments.
For instance, very little is done with EDF's. Lot's of problems have to be solved and it is getting worse with the new upcoming NYGAD fighters. So you need to keep abreast of what is happening. 3D printers are now helping to solve some of the problems in design work. Some fly, others not. So it is more complicated than that.

 

[Mr NCT]

That’s what I used when I first started. 👍

Me too‼️

 

[Merv]

... How hard is it to design a plane? What do you need to have for the plane to fly? Do you just need a big enough wing, good power, and a good cg? Or is it more complicated than that?

Flying well is hard, there are 2-3 dozen factors that need to be right. Here is a starting place.

Easy Aircraft Design

Quick open ended step-by-step instructions on how to design a basic airplane with a large degree of artistic freedom

www.flitetest.com

Airfield Models - Designing Radio Control Model Aircraft

Here are some general rules of thumb that most successful planes will follow.

 

[Houndpup Rc]

That’s true, even some that I haven’t even built or released yet! (Namely a P-40)

And the radjet

 

[Mr Man]

And the radjet

True

 

[Quackerhonk]

I oughta make a YouTube tutorial on how I design….

yeah!

 

[Houndpup Rc]

True

I will leave a review on it for sure!

 

[Quackerhonk]

draco or air tractor? just pick one

 

[Mr Man]

Air tractor,

 

[Zoom Master]

People who have made their own designs before, How hard is it to design a plane? What do you need to have for the plane to fly? Do you just need a big enough wing, good power, and a good cg? Or is it more complicated than that?

All of those things are needed to make a rc airplane fly and yes it gets more complicated from there....but only if u want it to - otherwise it's quite simple and almost anything can fly if it has proper cg, power and a good wingspan.

I myself have designed a few rc planes before and it really isn't that hard at all and I recommend to u to start designing simple trainers first or just something simple dont try to design a F16. By designing the simple airplanes first it will help u learn the basics of designing a airplane !

 

[Zoom Master]

There are some good youtube tutorials though they are software specific. Here's one for Fusion360:

This video is the main reason I was able to get started designing a rc plane in fusion.

 

[Quackerhonk]

i’ve just completed my scratch built draco! (I’m going to build an air tractor soon) i actually just freehanded a design because i was lazy but it looks not half bad!
(I havent flown it yet)

 

[Zoom Master]

i’ve just completed my scratch built draco! (I’m going to build an air tractor soon) i actually just freehanded a design because i was lazy but it looks not half bad!
(I havent flown it yet)

Looks good !

 

[Quackerhonk]

Do you guys think it will fly?
Weight:328 grams
Wingspan:29in
Motor: power pack a

 

[Zoom Master]

Do you guys think it will fly?
Weight:328 grams
Wingspan:29in
Motor: power pack a

Yeah it will prolly fly

 

[Quackerhonk]

Uh oh it has an almost 9 wcl…

 

[Zoom Master]

Uh oh it has an almost 9 wcl…

wcl ??

 

[Zoom Master]

wcl ??

searched it on google and it means world cricket league so it seems like ur saying ur plane has a cricket league ? Impressive....

 

[Quackerhonk]

searched it on google and it means world cricket league so it seems like ur saying ur plane has a cricket league ? Impressive....

🤣 it means wing cube loading

 

[Quackerhonk]

Tail heavy productions has a prtty good video explaining it