First off a little background information:
As you could already tell from from my name, my favorite aircraft of all time is the Beechcraft Baron G58 and I have been desperately tried to find any kind of easy to build (or to buy) foamie models of this beauty. Unfortunately, the only ones I could find were the absolutely stunning (but expensive) composite model from RC Aerodyne (scaleflying.com) and some sketchy foamies that you couldn´t even find any useful plans for
Then I also had to find out that there actually was a company that sold balsa plans (that you could kinda use for foamies) for the Baron 58P (which is virtually the exact same as all Baron 58s when it comes to it´s airframe). But that company, Marutaka, apparently went out of business a couple years ago
BUT I luckily found images of just that company's plans on this forum and thought: "... Yeah... that could work... maybe"
So here are some pictures of my Baron in it´s current state of building (I started three days ago and yesterday and today I wasn´t working on it at all since now it´s just about installing the electronics in order to be able to glue the "engine covers"/ motor mounts on and covering them like the nose with that thick paper. You can easily build this plane in one day, I´m guessing about 3 hours max. from having nothing to having a flying Baron ( I could be terribly wrong though since time just flies when building ). )
I actually have way more pictures but the majority of them was to large of a size I have posted the same thing on RCGroups.com and there you can see all images I made: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2455966
Yes, I now that I kinda messed up the nose by making it that short and wide instead of long and narrower as it should be (but that is absolutely easily avoidable)
If anyone wants more information about this build or even a build log just tell me and I will do it. Need (want) to build a new one anyways
Specs:
Wingspan: 75cm
Length: 52cm
Width (thickest point): ca. 8cm
Height (highest point): ca. 9cm
Weight (Airframe only, no electronics yet): 117g
Material: Fuselage+Horizontal Stabs+ Vertical Stab+"Engine"/Motor mounts/covers= 3mm Foamboard
Wing=5mm Foamboard
Windshield+Windows+Nose Cover= thick paper, white + blue
Estimated max. AUW: 260g
Motors: NTM Propdrive 1312 2600kv 42W
Servos: HobbyKing 3.6g, 0.12s, 0.45kg torque
ESCs: Turnigy Plush 12a, 2a BEC
Battery: 460mah 25C-40C nano-tech 3S
As you could already tell from from my name, my favorite aircraft of all time is the Beechcraft Baron G58 and I have been desperately tried to find any kind of easy to build (or to buy) foamie models of this beauty. Unfortunately, the only ones I could find were the absolutely stunning (but expensive) composite model from RC Aerodyne (scaleflying.com) and some sketchy foamies that you couldn´t even find any useful plans for
Then I also had to find out that there actually was a company that sold balsa plans (that you could kinda use for foamies) for the Baron 58P (which is virtually the exact same as all Baron 58s when it comes to it´s airframe). But that company, Marutaka, apparently went out of business a couple years ago
BUT I luckily found images of just that company's plans on this forum and thought: "... Yeah... that could work... maybe
"So here are some pictures of my Baron in it´s current state of building (I started three days ago and yesterday and today I wasn´t working on it at all since now it´s just about installing the electronics in order to be able to glue the "engine covers"/ motor mounts on and covering them like the nose with that thick paper. You can easily build this plane in one day, I´m guessing about 3 hours max. from having nothing to having a flying Baron ( I could be terribly wrong though since time just flies when building
). )I actually have way more pictures but the majority of them was to large of a size
I have posted the same thing on RCGroups.com and there you can see all images I made: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2455966Yes, I now that I kinda messed up the nose by making it that short and wide instead of long and narrower as it should be (but that is absolutely easily avoidable)
If anyone wants more information about this build or even a build log just tell me and I will do it
. Need (want) to build a new one anyways Specs:
Wingspan: 75cm
Length: 52cm
Width (thickest point): ca. 8cm
Height (highest point): ca. 9cm
Weight (Airframe only, no electronics yet): 117g
Material: Fuselage+Horizontal Stabs+ Vertical Stab+"Engine"/Motor mounts/covers= 3mm Foamboard
Wing=5mm Foamboard
Windshield+Windows+Nose Cover= thick paper, white + blue
Estimated max. AUW: 260g
Motors: NTM Propdrive 1312 2600kv 42W
Servos: HobbyKing 3.6g, 0.12s, 0.45kg torque
ESCs: Turnigy Plush 12a, 2a BEC
Battery: 460mah 25C-40C nano-tech 3S
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