Vimana89
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Hello, I have been trying for a while now to design and build my first rc plane, and I have some electronics from failed builds using corrugated plastic. To be completely honest, I have limited building skills, patience, and dexterity/coordination. I have a strong imagination and creative drive, and I would probably be a much better designer than builder, but I have nobody to do the building and trouble shooting for me. I see products on the market, other people's home made builds, and full scale aircraft and the ideas just start coming. If I could design and build the things I can envision, I have no doubt they would be interesting and some would be very successful and perform very well, but I'm just not a very good builder-I'm not mathematically inclined, my coordination and dexterity are mediocre, and I have a low tolerance for frustration. As the main drive to get into this is seeing my own designs come out of my head and into life, I really don't want to spend time and money on a kit build and just copy a finished design piece for piece to learn, so I'm looking for help and suggestions when it comes to materials, tools, techniques, and things like weight distribution when placing the electronics-and things like the flaps(which have been a large problem). My first build is intended be a simple build using a single propeller, 2-3 servo motors, a 6ch transmitter and a 4ch receiver. There's a few different potential ideas I have for that, one of which I have a rough overhead view 2d sketch for. I can post pics of my designs(to my best ability to sketch them up) and I can list the exact parts I have at my disposal. My current electronics system is pre-soldered, as soldering is not a skill I have, although I do know a couple of people who could help or teach me if necessary. Hopefully with enough input, I can get one of my designs to work, but just as a heads up, I'd be just as happy to pay somebody a reasonable fee to build one or more of my designs for me-so if there is anybody here who could not only help me streamline my designs but could actually build them into a finished product with the kinks worked out for a reasonable price, that would be very helpful. I really don't have any friends with inclinations to this sort of hobby, and there's no meetup groups to teach me in a hands on manner around where I live-and although I would really like to learn to do this myself, it has been a lonely, daunting, unforgiving, and frustrating path-and if it takes paying somebody else with better skills, knowledge, tools and patience to see my designs come to life, so be it.
I'm looking forward to any help and responses. If some people are willing to help in one way or another I will post a basic sketch of what I want to do for my first build and list my exact electronics. Just to briefly describe it though, it is loosely based on the geobat and other round wing designs, but stretched into an elongated teardrop delta shape. My plan has a solid wing with no "cutout" areas, has the thee flaps along the rounded rear section of the wing(s) and two stabilizers like the geobat, It has a single motor and prop at the front nose, but I could change the build to a pusher if it would work better. For simplicities sake my plan has a simple mount for the propeller and no enclosed fuselage, basically a flying wing with the electronics exposed and simply mounted on top of the wing in the right positions for weight. Again, this is something I can tweak by making an enclosed fuselage that goes either partly or fully down the wing. If I'm building it myself this will be more challenging, but will probably lead to a better product. If this plan is unfeasible I have quite a few other single motor designs in mind, most of which use 2 flap servos rather than the 3 this build requires. Thanks in advance for any help!
I'm looking forward to any help and responses. If some people are willing to help in one way or another I will post a basic sketch of what I want to do for my first build and list my exact electronics. Just to briefly describe it though, it is loosely based on the geobat and other round wing designs, but stretched into an elongated teardrop delta shape. My plan has a solid wing with no "cutout" areas, has the thee flaps along the rounded rear section of the wing(s) and two stabilizers like the geobat, It has a single motor and prop at the front nose, but I could change the build to a pusher if it would work better. For simplicities sake my plan has a simple mount for the propeller and no enclosed fuselage, basically a flying wing with the electronics exposed and simply mounted on top of the wing in the right positions for weight. Again, this is something I can tweak by making an enclosed fuselage that goes either partly or fully down the wing. If I'm building it myself this will be more challenging, but will probably lead to a better product. If this plan is unfeasible I have quite a few other single motor designs in mind, most of which use 2 flap servos rather than the 3 this build requires. Thanks in advance for any help!