telnar1236
Elite member
I decided to take a bit of break from building my F-104 today and throw together a little Mirage III out of foam board using some electronics I had sitting around. The plane runs on a 40mm AEORC fan which outputs 240g of thrust to give the plane a TWR of 1.25 with a 1000 mAh 2s battery. It's a simple park-flyer, so there is no rudder and the elevons are run on lightweight 7g servos. The pink color is a lightweight filler material that really smooths out the contours and makes the surface less rough (it's drying in the photos and needs some sanding). It's not too scale, but I'm happy with how it turned out and it's a relief to do an easy 3-hour build after working on a complex balsa design for two months. If it flies well, I'll probably post some plans since I don't see too many sub-250g EDFs with decent performance and I pretty much had to make plans to build it in the first place. The build is similar in style to Steve Shumate's park jets, and the entire airframe with electronics can be built for about $40.