Mighty Mini Warbirds Winter 2015-16

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

Sure thing! Here are the un-tiled plans:

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

For these of you who would like to build this as a swappable (as opposed to a Mighty Mini):

Only difference is that the width of the ridges and cutouts is sized to use the same thickness of foam while the rest of the aircraft is scaled up.

 

[xMeox]

awesome! have you figured out what thrust angle one should use with this plane? if you want to get a lot of people to use your designs, this might be quite important.

 

[localfiend]

Cool. You have one completed? How's it fly?

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

Cool! I can't wait for the P40!
I would like un-tiled plans as well.
Flying Tiger graphics waiting in the wings! (Oh look, a pun.)
After I have them sized to the plan,s PM me if you want a PDF of them. I don't want to clog up the forum.
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Thanks, Rasterize!

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

awesome! have you figured out what thrust angle one should use with this plane? if you want to get a lot of people to use your designs, this might be quite important.

I did. Check my first post.

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

Cool. You have one completed? How's it fly?

I've actually done most of them. They fly pretty well, maybe a bit faster than the FT mini warbirds.

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

Some people might be surprised at the lack of spars for the wing. This is intentional. These designs will utilize BBQ skewers in the wings for strength. The two score cuts in the center of the wing will be opened up and will have a bit of foam melted away by a hot glue gun. That will make space for the skewers. Sounds complex, but the build log will explain it in detail.

It's soooper strong. The wings on the DC-3, for example, supported a weight of 56lbs before collapsing!

 

[xMeox]

I did. Check my first post.

yeah, but which one? as far as I can remember the scout, the tiny trainer and the mini mustang have different angles on their pods.

 

[dgrigor02]

I'm still a bit confused. So spar is a bbq scewer so your saying the top wing folds completely flat onto the bottom wing or is there at least a 1 foam thickness spar to get wing shape ? Also, is there plans for the poster board and canopy as well ?

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

yeah, but which one? as far as I can remember the scout, the tiny trainer and the mini mustang have different angles on their pods.

All of these should have right-thrust built in, except for the DC-3/C-47.

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

I'm still a bit confused. So spar is a bbq scewer so your saying the top wing folds completely flat onto the bottom wing or is there at least a 1 foam thickness spar to get wing shape ? Also, is there plans for the poster board and canopy as well ?

Yes, the spar is a BBQ skewer. The top of the wing does not fold completely over the bottom. There is an airfoil, as is the case with most of the FT designs. The thickness of the wing is determined by a template that will be on the final version of the plans.

Unfortunately, there are no poster board/canopy plans at the moment. I'm still working on those. I have a commitment on December 31st and I'll be busy until then. Starting in early January, the complete plans and build articles will be released.

 

[xMeox]

ok, Im really sorry, but I still dont get it..
lets take your trojan for example: do you designed it to fly it with the tiny trainer pod (little bit of right angle thrust), scout pot (massive right angle thrust) or the mini mustang (right and down angle thrust)?

the reason why I ask this is because the flying experience can be quite different if your angles arnt right. I flew my tiny trainer without right angle thrust at first. It flew ok, but I had to right-trim my rudder to counteract the missing thrust angle quite a lot. with my mini mustang on the other hand I have a little bit too less down angle for my setup. I only notice the problem when doing full throttle low passes, but still it affects my flying experience and I will try different angles to get rid of it. And while I like to experiment with different setups, other people might not. And with all the effort you put into those planes it would be a shame if people build the wrong pod and there for get bad flight characteristics. Better add "Use power pod of xxx" onto your plans to prevent those things happen.

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

ok, Im really sorry, but I still dont get it..
lets take your trojan for example: do you designed it to fly it with the tiny trainer pod (little bit of right angle thrust), scout pot (massive right angle thrust) or the mini mustang (right and down angle thrust)?

the reason why I ask this is because the flying experience can be quite different if your angles arnt right. I flew my tiny trainer without right angle thrust at first. It flew ok, but I had to right-trim my rudder to counteract the missing thrust angle quite a lot. with my mini mustang on the other hand I have a little bit too less down angle for my setup. I only notice the problem when doing full throttle low passes, but still it affects my flying experience and I will try different angles to get rid of it. And while I like to experiment with different setups, other people might not. And with all the effort you put into those planes it would be a shame if people build the wrong pod and there for get bad flight characteristics. Better add "Use power pod of xxx" onto your plans to prevent those things happen.

That's alright.
I didn't know that the Mighty Minis used several different thrust angles. I thought that there were only two: using the front of the pod gives right thrust, while using the back gives straight thrust. In this case, I'm talking about the power pod used on the Mini Scout and Mini Speedster.

Thanks for the advice!

 

[dgrigor02]

I attempted to print the non-tiled but it's a jpg. When I upsize to 500%+ to get the lines becomes so thick its not really useful. I'll just wait until you have the final plans ready. I'd like to build one upsized to 800mm ( 130% of mini ) ish to go with the rest of my collection.

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

I'll probably just post the power pod plans as well as the pod mount plans directly on the drawings without making references.

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

I attempted to print the non-tiled but it's a jpg. When I upsize to 500%+ to get the lines becomes so thick its not really useful. I'll just wait until you have the final plans ready. I'd like to build one upsized to 800mm ( 130% of mini ) ish to go with the rest of my collection.

When I upload the final version, I'll try to make it another type of file. What program are you using to tile the plans? I'm using Poster Print.

 

[The-One-Who-Never-Crashes]

When I upsize to 500%+ to get the lines becomes so thick its not really useful.

Wait a second... why are you upsizing to 500%?!

 

[dgrigor02]

It's a jpg file. 100% is only 1/4 of 1 sheet of paper.


I use adobe acrobat print as a poster as well when its a pdf.

 

[kamikazepy]

Did I missed something?

What happened with all those plans ?