Vimana89
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If you've got the itch to custom design, then go for it by all means. Fair warning, it is a bit more involved than making a design from a kit or plans where everything like the CG and wing loading and dimensions of the various components of your air frame and control surfaces are all thought out for you. At least you know how to fly a trainer...that's more knowledge than I had when I first started the hobby, already wanting to do custom stuff.Do I need plans or should I just take hints from other planes and youribe clips and make my own plan?
Make sure the things you are taking from different planes as inspiration fit and flow together, and you are not just "Frankensteining" blindly, for example, to make a tailed delta, I couldn't simply short couple a tail plane to a delta wing and bam it works. The air flow was causing bad stalls, and I had to make sure there was some length in between the main wing and tail plane on the next version, and added winglets and twin tails to reduce air flow turbulence at key points. This ended up solving the problem. Share your ideas and build processes here so we can help along the way!