telnar1236
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I'm looking for ideas for 3D printed jets that people might be interested in building - I have way too many power systems and rolls of filament sitting around, so I need to do something with them, or get rid of them.
I think I'm going to make it my goal this winter to try and get as many of the power systems I have as possible into flyable airframes. As one of the few people who designs and builds his own planes at my local rc club, people tend to give me old power systems they no longer want, so I have quite the collection of outdated (and a couple modern) EDFs and even a couple motor/prop combinations. I also have too many rolls of filament from different projects where I bought the roll and then didn't use the whole thing and I need to get rid of them. It's also looking like I'll be able to design parts for the F-100 look-alike (thinking about calling it the Super Duper Sabre) faster than I'll be able to test them between TFRs and the weather, so while the experimental jet will remain my main project, I'll be able to work on some simpler designs in between.
A couple of ideas I'm thinking of are a 64mm 4s sport jet, a twin 50mm 4s blown wing design for bush flying (because I like making EDFs do dumb stuff), and some version of the boundary layer ingesting flying wing concept (the laminar flow wing and improved streamlining of the more conventional designs I'm working on combined with the inability to use flaps on a flying wing mean it isn't really a good fit for my experimental high performance EDF project anymore). However, none of these is set in stone.
But I also have a significant number more EDFs than this and a few prop systems as well, so I still need ideas. The goal will be to give any planes that fly well enough to be fairly manageable to younger/newer flyers at my club and to put anything that is more difficult to fly up for grabs for anyone at the club, since I really don't need more planes either - though I suspect I might keep a couple for myself if I like them enough. And then of course to post the STLs for any designs on here as resources if they fly well enough.
So please, give me ideas, preferably geared more towards the intermediate side than the very advanced in terms of flight characteristics. Also, I'm not going to be trying to make anything mechanically complicated or all that fast. These will all be fixed gear designs using plastic gear servos, since I don't have a ton of metal gear servos and don't want to need to buy new parts for any of these.
I think I'm going to make it my goal this winter to try and get as many of the power systems I have as possible into flyable airframes. As one of the few people who designs and builds his own planes at my local rc club, people tend to give me old power systems they no longer want, so I have quite the collection of outdated (and a couple modern) EDFs and even a couple motor/prop combinations. I also have too many rolls of filament from different projects where I bought the roll and then didn't use the whole thing and I need to get rid of them. It's also looking like I'll be able to design parts for the F-100 look-alike (thinking about calling it the Super Duper Sabre) faster than I'll be able to test them between TFRs and the weather, so while the experimental jet will remain my main project, I'll be able to work on some simpler designs in between.
A couple of ideas I'm thinking of are a 64mm 4s sport jet, a twin 50mm 4s blown wing design for bush flying (because I like making EDFs do dumb stuff), and some version of the boundary layer ingesting flying wing concept (the laminar flow wing and improved streamlining of the more conventional designs I'm working on combined with the inability to use flaps on a flying wing mean it isn't really a good fit for my experimental high performance EDF project anymore). However, none of these is set in stone.
But I also have a significant number more EDFs than this and a few prop systems as well, so I still need ideas. The goal will be to give any planes that fly well enough to be fairly manageable to younger/newer flyers at my club and to put anything that is more difficult to fly up for grabs for anyone at the club, since I really don't need more planes either - though I suspect I might keep a couple for myself if I like them enough. And then of course to post the STLs for any designs on here as resources if they fly well enough.
So please, give me ideas, preferably geared more towards the intermediate side than the very advanced in terms of flight characteristics. Also, I'm not going to be trying to make anything mechanically complicated or all that fast. These will all be fixed gear designs using plastic gear servos, since I don't have a ton of metal gear servos and don't want to need to buy new parts for any of these.
