Master Series Builds, Past Present and Future.

[danskis]

Ive used good old bamboo skewers with good success

 

[Jo's squadron]

That didn't take long...

I've had 5-6 flights successful flights in so far, and was just starting to get the feel for her when this happened.

It looked like the plane got hit by flak. After forgetting to bring my transmitter to the field, the club president let me borrow his...so all eyes were on it as it stuck the takeoff and took some nice high lazy circuits. After a minute or two, I brought her in slow over the field... when the port wing exploded! Could have been a SAM. Maybe an AAM? Maybe a cannon shell? The world will never know what brought down the F-18 V3.

She lingered for a long while. The bottom skin held on to the fuselage by the servo & lights wire, while the top skin lazily drifted down to the earth. Meanwhile, the F-18 minus the one wing, did the Top Gun flat spin into the mud from about 50' in the air, nice and slow like. I think Goose would have been able to successfully eject from this one.

Upon inspection, it looks like the spar snapped in the middle. That's two FT jets now (there's cool video of my FT Me-262 wings folding up in level flight here somewhere) that I've lost through single wooden spars busting in the middle. I don't really fly that aggressively, and I've been building for a while, so my two likely guesses why are:

1. Occasional Bad Gluing Technique- maybe there's not enough contact between wooden spar, foam spar, and wing skins. I've used both hot glue and foaming gorilla glue and it seems like the gorilla glue holds better. This time I used hot glue. Maybe the wingskin/spar contact was poor enough for it to lead to additional flexing of the wing that eventually breaks the plywood spar. Its sort of like the metal fatigue around the windows that doomed the Comet airliner back in the 1950's.
2. Weak Wing Spar- maybe one solo wooden spar isn't enough to handle the stresses of a high speed, twin 70mm EDF, adrenaline-pumping, 6s powered, foamboard F-18 Super Hornet tearing through the sky. I don't have any evidence for this, though: I got probably 20 flights in on my first F-18 before a tree ate it. #2 rudders failed on maiden. #3 wing spar failed after 5-6 flights. I just don't know. Its a big plane, after all - maybe adding an aluminum wing spar might help. Nerdnic uses aluminum reinforced spars in his planes, which are a little zippier than the average FT design and require a little more support.

Just a thought. It actually doesn't look too bad, considering. It would be a candidate for repair, except for the broken wing spar issue. Build, fly, crash, repeat.

Aw man! sorry to see it retire prematurely.

 

[Elyor]

Hello good afternoon can you help me I can't find the plans of the BF109 MASTER series

 

[AIRFORGE]

Hello good afternoon can you help me I can't find the plans of the BF109 MASTER series

Flite Test did not release plans for the MS BF-109.
13th Squadron has a kit available, but again, no plans.

 

[Mr NCT]

Hello good afternoon can you help me I can't find the plans of the BF109 MASTER series

BF109E Kit

13th Squadron

13thsquadron.com

 

[CrshNBrn]

Hello good afternoon can you help me I can't find the plans of the BF109 MASTER series

There are two good sets of 109 plans on this forum by Bwarz and Whit Armstrong. Both are awesome- check them out.

 

[Mr NCT]

There are two good sets of 109 plans on this forum by Bwarz and Whit Armstrong. Both are awesome- check them out.

Good catch! And there's a mini, too.

Plane - Mighty Mini Messerschmitt BF 109

Designed in Inkscape

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Plane - BF109-G2 Master Series style - 46" wingspan

A rather sturdy master series build with a 46" wingspan that has a nice glide path and flies quite prototypical on a 3S battery with a 2216 1120kV motor (I'd assume a Power Pack C would be perfect). I've attached a PDF build notes document to...

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Plane - Master Series Bf-109

Here is my better-late-than-never Bf-109! I wanted to wrap this up before I left for summer camp, so more additions will be coming later. Build thread: https://forum.flitetest.com/index.php?threads/master-series-bf-109-build.65732/page-7

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[Jonrob]

Would love to see this in the Mig-28 Paint Scheme! Awesome Build!

Hi, are there plans for this plane anywhere looks amazing would love to have a go at making one

 

[Mr Man]

Hi, are there plans for this plane anywhere looks amazing would love to have a go at making one

Sadly, plans were never released. but @Mid7night did design one that has free plans! 👍 F-5 Plans

 

[Proptastic]

Sadly, plans were never released. but @Mid7night did design one that has free plans! 👍 F-5 Plans

Been thinking about this one for a long time. I think I can tweak that a little bit make a T-38