SSgt Duramax
Junior Member
Ok folks, it is time the process of another design. I am going to be putting together a Mig 29, and hopefully everyone will be able to benefit from it.
Why the Mig 29? Well, it was my second plastic model I had ever put together, the plane is pretty simplistic, and looks really cool! Plus, there isn't a whole lot of quasi masters series jets, and no mig 29s I can find (I found some foam build on youtube from someone from S.E. asia somewhere, but there were not plans). I know there is a profile foamie pusher jet out there, but come on, look who you are talking to here.... Jets gotta have jets. Although, I believe this design would lend itself pretty decent to a pusher, or even tractor set up if that is your thing.
The goals of this are to have a simple, 3CH elevon jet that has a wide speed envelope and is easy to fly and easy to build. In fact, I am pretty sure this is going to work, because I completed the alpha build and flew it already. It was docile except for the CG being too far forward. I still haven't figured out CG, and there were some intrinsic issues using papercraft plans I used to make the alpha. I pretty much just scaled the plans up to fit my EDFs, printed them out and glued them to foam, applied building techniques I knew and came up with a jet. It worked, and it flew. Here is what it looked like.
Weighing in at 1lb 14oz without battery, it was pretty light for a twin engine EDF jet that was 47" long and had a 39 inch wingspan. It was light enough and slippery enough that the twin 50mms powered it just fine. I probably achieved a speed of somewhere near 50mph on maiden, I didn't push it, because frankly, it was my first jet flight that lasted longer than 15 seconds too.
This is where I got the papercraft plans from:
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/Jets/MIG-29.html
Now I don't feel comfortable posting the papercraft plans here as they are for sale, and no matter how dead that site seems and may be, and the plans were drawn up in 1992 seemingly, I wouldn't want someone posting my stuff like that. So if you want to do exactly what I did, you can do that and scale it 500% like I did. So even though I was 7 when those plans were drawn, and the person who drew them may be dead, I am still not posting them.
The plans I am making, while they are loosely based on the idea of the papercraft model, are going to be pretty different than the papercraft model (as in I have a few hours in on these plans, making measurements, scaling, changing things...etc) that I don't feel like I am hurting anything. You couldn't make an attractive papercraft model using the plans I am posting and I am not transferring the livery over, so I think we are good. (Although I do want to make a ghost of Kyiv livery/rasterize skin).
So with all of that out of the way, I am about 70-80% done with the plans so far, and I will be beefing up areas that failed in the crash, but I believe we will have an easy 4-5 sheet easier to fly jet for the intermediate pilot that will make a good first get once the CG issue gets worked out. I flew it just fine and never stalled it... so I would say it is a good first jet.
Why the Mig 29? Well, it was my second plastic model I had ever put together, the plane is pretty simplistic, and looks really cool! Plus, there isn't a whole lot of quasi masters series jets, and no mig 29s I can find (I found some foam build on youtube from someone from S.E. asia somewhere, but there were not plans). I know there is a profile foamie pusher jet out there, but come on, look who you are talking to here.... Jets gotta have jets. Although, I believe this design would lend itself pretty decent to a pusher, or even tractor set up if that is your thing.
The goals of this are to have a simple, 3CH elevon jet that has a wide speed envelope and is easy to fly and easy to build. In fact, I am pretty sure this is going to work, because I completed the alpha build and flew it already. It was docile except for the CG being too far forward. I still haven't figured out CG, and there were some intrinsic issues using papercraft plans I used to make the alpha. I pretty much just scaled the plans up to fit my EDFs, printed them out and glued them to foam, applied building techniques I knew and came up with a jet. It worked, and it flew. Here is what it looked like.

Weighing in at 1lb 14oz without battery, it was pretty light for a twin engine EDF jet that was 47" long and had a 39 inch wingspan. It was light enough and slippery enough that the twin 50mms powered it just fine. I probably achieved a speed of somewhere near 50mph on maiden, I didn't push it, because frankly, it was my first jet flight that lasted longer than 15 seconds too.
This is where I got the papercraft plans from:
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/Jets/MIG-29.html
Now I don't feel comfortable posting the papercraft plans here as they are for sale, and no matter how dead that site seems and may be, and the plans were drawn up in 1992 seemingly, I wouldn't want someone posting my stuff like that. So if you want to do exactly what I did, you can do that and scale it 500% like I did. So even though I was 7 when those plans were drawn, and the person who drew them may be dead, I am still not posting them.
The plans I am making, while they are loosely based on the idea of the papercraft model, are going to be pretty different than the papercraft model (as in I have a few hours in on these plans, making measurements, scaling, changing things...etc) that I don't feel like I am hurting anything. You couldn't make an attractive papercraft model using the plans I am posting and I am not transferring the livery over, so I think we are good. (Although I do want to make a ghost of Kyiv livery/rasterize skin).
So with all of that out of the way, I am about 70-80% done with the plans so far, and I will be beefing up areas that failed in the crash, but I believe we will have an easy 4-5 sheet easier to fly jet for the intermediate pilot that will make a good first get once the CG issue gets worked out. I flew it just fine and never stalled it... so I would say it is a good first jet.