Taildragger
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It's physics, math, and engineering... and a lot of them!
Time for motivation pills!
I have spent the last week laying in bed at night, it's designing new parts, designing new suspension, designing new wings...
Basically I have been listening to podcasts and videos and it's really incredible to see Mike Patey's process when he came up with scrappy, and I want to kind of recreate his awesome plane, scrappy.
I'm going to most likely go to high sierra fly in this year (2022), and so I want to bring some epic planes (obviously). They need to be outrageous, like a highly detailed 1/4 scale cub, or a very functional Scrappy.
What makes Scrappy unique from other cubs in my opinion are 4 things: 1. The tubby, tall fuselage 2. the ability to adjust ride height on the fly 3. solar power for accessories and 4. The revolutionary new wing system witch utilizes P-STOL flaps in conjunction with a retractable double-slatted leading edge.
These are essentially the goals for this project.
How I plan to do these on the RC model
1. Modify a CAD model of a cub fuselage to better resemble Scrappy
2. Idk yet
3. This one is the fun one! I plan on putting real solar panels and lithium ion batteries in the wings, turning them into solar-powered power banks. After doing the math, I found that the amount of power the panels will make without battery assistance is enough to power up to four USB devices simultaneously.
4. Kinda just copying Mike's design. 3D printing likely to be involved.
Current CAD Model (Pic updated often):
Time for motivation pills!
I have spent the last week laying in bed at night, it's designing new parts, designing new suspension, designing new wings...
Basically I have been listening to podcasts and videos and it's really incredible to see Mike Patey's process when he came up with scrappy, and I want to kind of recreate his awesome plane, scrappy.
I'm going to most likely go to high sierra fly in this year (2022), and so I want to bring some epic planes (obviously). They need to be outrageous, like a highly detailed 1/4 scale cub, or a very functional Scrappy.
What makes Scrappy unique from other cubs in my opinion are 4 things: 1. The tubby, tall fuselage 2. the ability to adjust ride height on the fly 3. solar power for accessories and 4. The revolutionary new wing system witch utilizes P-STOL flaps in conjunction with a retractable double-slatted leading edge.
These are essentially the goals for this project.
How I plan to do these on the RC model
1. Modify a CAD model of a cub fuselage to better resemble Scrappy
2. Idk yet
3. This one is the fun one! I plan on putting real solar panels and lithium ion batteries in the wings, turning them into solar-powered power banks. After doing the math, I found that the amount of power the panels will make without battery assistance is enough to power up to four USB devices simultaneously.
4. Kinda just copying Mike's design. 3D printing likely to be involved.
Current CAD Model (Pic updated often):
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