Here is the maiden flight of my new dollartree foamboard scratchbuilt plane. This design used the foamboard + packing tape method pioneered by Ed @experimentalairlines. The only building materials are foamboard, colored packing tape, hot glue, and great stuff expanding foam.
The maiden went great. I apologize for the bad video. I forgot my normal camera at home and my DVR was dead to record the onboard video. I'll follow up with a more detailed tour of the plane and better flight vids soon. The plane glides forever and has tons of lift. I had to put it in a steep dive to set up for final. Power is great. No problems doing very steep climb outs. I was cruising at 35mph at around 7amps of power draw.
Here are some details:
- 56" wingspan. 4 sheets of foamboard for the wing and 1 for the fuselage. The wing pieces are joined at the leading edge then folded to create a cambered airfoil.
- 15" root chord, 7" tip chord. 1.75 inch control surfaces
- RCtimer BC3536 1450 kv motor with a 9x6 prop. 60A Hobbywing esc
- maiden flown with 2 x 2200mah lipos
- PZ-0420 camera mounted on a custom foamboard pan/tilt
- Rangelink UHF LRS with Ibcrazy turnstile antenna embedded in wing
- 800mw 1.2 ghz video transmitter with Ibcrazy cloverleaf on the wing
- Nova OSD
-AUW is about 61oz with 2x 2200mah batteries
stay tuned for more.
