This is a complete departure from the stuff I usually build. Most of it is made of wood/fiberglass/foam and very scale. This is my first airplane from foam board and it is not a bad material for construction.
So far my wife is not very fond of my new plane. She calls it the derp plane and doesn't think it will fly. What do you think?
I stumbled onto the flite test videos and liked the Guinea pig. I bought the Guinea Pig kit and used it as a template. I wanted to make some changes to better represent one of my favorite aircraft, a C-82a Packet, the precursor of the well known C119 flying boxcar. It's a relatively unknown aircraft of which only a few exist today, none are flyable. I used 2 types of foam board, initially I bought it a Hobby Lobby. I built the first Fuselage and it was entirely too heavy. I found a Dollar Tree and went that route for foam. The Hobby Lobby stuff, I used for the struts and wing spars for strength the rest is dollar tree. I shortened the nose, clipped the back of the fuse, lowered the wings into the fuse, rounded the wings, extended the booms and changed the tail. I stil have a lot to do. I will have to open up the rear to haul cargo. The C-82 had duel clamshell doors which were removable so drops with be very easy without a door getting in the way. They often flew without doors and the back of the fuselage wide open. The C-82 had the landing gear in the wings so I used a 1/2 hardwood spar in my wings and some 1/16 ply reinforcements where the gear will mount. I still need to make the gear. I used white gorilla glue throughout and plan to cover the plane in monokote. More to come later as the plane nears completion.
So far my wife is not very fond of my new plane. She calls it the derp plane and doesn't think it will fly. What do you think?
I stumbled onto the flite test videos and liked the Guinea pig. I bought the Guinea Pig kit and used it as a template. I wanted to make some changes to better represent one of my favorite aircraft, a C-82a Packet, the precursor of the well known C119 flying boxcar. It's a relatively unknown aircraft of which only a few exist today, none are flyable. I used 2 types of foam board, initially I bought it a Hobby Lobby. I built the first Fuselage and it was entirely too heavy. I found a Dollar Tree and went that route for foam. The Hobby Lobby stuff, I used for the struts and wing spars for strength the rest is dollar tree. I shortened the nose, clipped the back of the fuse, lowered the wings into the fuse, rounded the wings, extended the booms and changed the tail. I stil have a lot to do. I will have to open up the rear to haul cargo. The C-82 had duel clamshell doors which were removable so drops with be very easy without a door getting in the way. They often flew without doors and the back of the fuselage wide open. The C-82 had the landing gear in the wings so I used a 1/2 hardwood spar in my wings and some 1/16 ply reinforcements where the gear will mount. I still need to make the gear. I used white gorilla glue throughout and plan to cover the plane in monokote. More to come later as the plane nears completion.
