This looks amazing and so fun to fly! Looks like it just wants to fly too. Very good for new to novices flyers. When the captain rolled it, I was like, ok, I'm building this! I too have been missing your videos, but you did respond to my email fast. You make these videos and builds look TO EASY! I don't think most realize what it takes to make and edit a video like this. Capturing the printing, the build, and then flying, with voice over, OMG, all I can say is thank you! Then I just looked and you have sourced out and linked all the parts too!!!! Your family is so lucky to have a man of your caliber helping take care of them. Sorry for the long post..... Thank you sir!
Want to say thank you for your videos. I started this hobby 3 years ago. Your the one that inspired me to give 3D models a try. I went though the comments and thought I would let you know. Keep up the great work.
This combines everything I love; warbirds, RC, and 3d printing. And the parachute mechanism is a nice touch. I love seeing every new project you put out. I can't wait for you to do a classic bomber next!
We've been curious about your whereabouts, but it's understandable given your busy time expanding your team. Congratulations on the new addition to your family and the impressive new aircraft!
Love your background music !!!! And loved this build so much infact that I subscribed !!! Well done and Thank you for being out there doing it . I'm very happy to have found your channel. GOD bless you and your loved one's 👍
If you wrap glued in servos with a layer of black electrical tape, it makes them easier to salvage. All you have to do is cut the tape and peal the tape, then the servo can be reused.
Yeah, that is a great hack to point out. I do use painters tape on the bottom of the servos for that very reason, I like it to be very tidy and minimal for the video haha.
I have 2 C-17 foam models that used 4-40 MM EDF units. I am currently replacing the fans/engines because the ones it came with are junk. I had one fan detonate on takeoff and 3 engines weren't enough to keep the plane flying. Since my C-17s are about the same size as yours I might try twin 50 MM edf units in it with empty outboard nacelles. I noticed that on your models, the landing gear sponsons are the same length (which makes sense aerodynamically) yet on my aircraft, the right sponson is longer than the left one. The reason the right sponson is longer is because the designers realized at the last minute that they hadn't placed the APU in the aircraft yet so the lengthened the right sponson while leaving the left one at the original design length. My C-17s are plug & play and a bit on the heavy side. Your aircraft look and fly amazing! Great job!
Ya maybe try duel 50mm in your and try to shed some weight off. Nice catch on the sponson. Yes I decided to adjust this from scale so that they would work more as skies to takeoff and land on. It does fly great the main reason is just due to how light the plane is. Good luck with your C-17s. Cheers
Wowowow! You've outdone yourself this time Troy :-D Just picked up a bambu x1c myself so I might have to print this one out! Huge congrats on the new addition to your family as well! ^_^
Troy Great job on this one, both the video and the plane. The video shows so much more personality than some other previous videos. Keep up the good work! Congrats on the addition!
Thank you for this comment it definitely does show more personality. I figured there was enough channels out there that show hands building random things so I figured I would show a human building something. Thank you for the congrats! Cheers
I like when you said "3D printing is not my hobby" ... I feel exactly the same way ... they are tools, I want them to work. I use Prusa and Formlabs printers. Every time someone says I "overpaid" I remind them that I NEVER have failed prints ... and my time is not free.
The stuff you build is crazy! Glad to see that more people are getting into 3d printed planes, thanks to people like you. Personally, I love this 3d printed beauty the most and then the 3d printed A350 and A330 i saw on cults3d. Great job Troy, keep building more awesome planes!!
@@TroyMcMillan I have purchased all your designs and will be purchasing this as well. I like to see how other designers go about their designs of 3D printed airplanes. I have not built any as of yet, but I like looking at the designs.
Awesome design and build work young man. The last plane of Douglas, originally the YF-15 competing with Boeing's YC-14. I inspected the 1st two wire harness in development on the C-17 early in 1989, LOX.
I do CAD design work for my model railroad. That plane HAD to have been a massive design effort. Congratulations! It's awesome. Edit: tried the "all parts" link and got the "something went wrong" response.
Yes it was a massive deign effort for sure. Thank you. I will get the all parts link working thank you for letting me know. Required parts. 1 roll of LW-PLA Medium CA Glue 2 50mm EDFs 2 40amp ESC 5 9g servos Servo wire extensions 1 Battery
Troy, you are so inspiring. After watching a some of your videos a while back, I spent the whole last year printing a building planes. Such an incredibly fun hobby. This C-17 is incredible. Great work!
Wow, that thing just floats!! Looks like a really easy flier. Even though I've really been wanting to, I've been intimidated to fly any airliner-style planes for fear that they would fly to fast for me (I get nervous flying RC jets), but this thing looks so friendly to fly. Super cool.
Ya I agree I was a bit nervous the first time I flew a swept wing RC jet also. If you are looking at making the jump this is definitely a good one it is so light and the wing on the C-17 is so large in comparison to the rest of the plane there is a lot of wing area making it a great slow flyer you can fly this plane around on one battery at 50 percent throttle or less just fine.
First this plane looked and flew amazingly! You are miles ahead of the companies out there that have 3d printed planes. Second, I have a request. No company has made a P-40 that flies well. I was hoping in one of your future projects, you can make one please and thank you!
Wow thank you for the nice comment. That is why I started doing my own designs I just had some cool planes I wanted to build and some ideas for some better features to try out. The P-40 would be a cool airplane to build. What size wing would you like to see for that build.
@@TroyMcMillan That is up you. If smaller is easier, than smaller. If larger is easier, than larger lol. I will print whatever you make and fly it till it dies.
I've been waiting for you for a long time. I often looked at the channel to see if there was a new video. I'm glad that everything is fine. I have notifications turned off, but today I accidentally went to the channel and was delighted by the new video.
Thank you for being so interested in my channel that is very nice feedback to here. I would really like to start posting much more consistent. So hopefully you will start seeing more videos. Cheers
Looks fanntastic...next on my list, love your step by step videos and yay youve gone to bambu labs..so much more straightforward .congrats on the addition...
Thank you, I love this plane I have only been able to enjoy looking at the C-17 from a distance it is such an amazing looking airplane. The paratroopers are my favorite part also.
Amazing model 👍 Do you think there is huge difference between X1C and P1S ? Next model suggestion : an iconic fighter like F14 or something older like F9F or F4 😉
Ya definitely I would love to build an F14 with retractable wing system. As far as print quality there is no difference between the X1 and the P1 the X1 just had more belles and whistles but the print quality will be the same.
Good to see you back Troy it's been a minute. Have you upgraded to Capt. yet? What are you flying now? Does Capt. Paul fly for UA looks familiar. Great build Troy this is in my wheelhouse. I was a Loadmaster for 20 yrs on the C-17 & 141. I'm definitely going to build this to add to my collection. Hope you do a C-5 someday.
Thanks man, I haven't upgraded yet my schedule is way too good in the right seat. I am flying the 320. Paul doesn't fly for UA. Ya a C-5 would be an awesome project.
I use 3D LabPrint PolyLight LW-PLA (Light Gray) for this build. I have not tested this with 4 EDF's it would be so over powered the power to weight ratio with two EDFs is already twice the power needed so with 4 EDFs it would basically be a rocket at that point you could do vertical takeoffs. :) If you try it sent me a video I would love to see it.
Absolutely amazing design and plane! Really good video. Don't listen to those morons. I like the music! Got to get flitetest to fly this and advertise your design!!! So good!!
@@TroyMcMillancontact The David at Flite Test ask them what kind of deal and kickback they get from Eclipson videos. Make a deal and I bet you they'll print it. Surely it's all about money. You'll get more sales too.
very nice design and build. Great that you give the bambu labs settings. I have never been able to get a good light weight PLA print. The layers seem to just separate at the slightest knock. Maybe I just need to try a different brand.
I can only get eSun epla-lw locally. There is a 3-part Reddit article discussing settings. My issues came right when I limited the max volumetric speed to 5 mm2/s. Strangely, I get much better results with the white, but the black is a lot weaker. I lightly sand it and then coat with epoxy resin.
@@290Alenka No I like the Active Foaming material from 3d lab or colorfabb. It saves around 45% from standard PLA. The Pre-foamed material only saves around 20% from standard PLA
Love this build and plane so much! I think i will go ahead and try this as my first 3d printed plane. For the EDFs, do you think it matters if the motors spin in the same direction or should they be opposite of each other? I have a C160 and the two props are counter-rotating from each other so im curious if it would help on this plane with the EDFs
Yess definitely a great first plane to 3D print. Designed in vase mode so super easy to print. The EDF don't need to spin counter clockwise and they cant because the blades would have to be reversed witch is not a thing for propellers you can buy CW and CCW props and make one of the motor spin the other direction. But with EDFs you don't have the same P-factor turning tendency as props have. Have fun with the build!
@TroyMcMillan Thanks for the reply! I should have clarified that I didn't mean to reverse the direction of the motor, rather use a CW and CCW EDF, but good to know it does matter! Would you know what kind of flight time do you get out of the plane on 3s?
@@22lambo Ya true you could use a CCW EDF but it does not have much effect on EDF setup. So I would say if you want to and it is easy to get then yes but if not you definitely done need them to be counter rotating. As far as flight time on my 3s 2200mah I flew it for 4min you could put duel packs side by side and if you flew it on 50% or less power you could get at least 8min if not more.
My dude, you took all the X out of your X1C, without those two setting you have my P1S lol. I'm attempting a similar type of build, a P3C Orion. Not too many renders out there. A question for you Sir - have you attempted using ASA Aero from Bambu? I've seen tests where it performs worse than PLA LW/Aero, but want to ask the master himself haha
Ya I did take the X out but for these vase mode printed planes it works the best with those setting off. Good question on the ASA Aero they just sent some of it to me so I will have it out for my next plane.
@@TroyMcMillan The videos I've seen so far comparing the two have had interesting results. Whereas the ASA had higher heat tolerance, the PLA Aero seemed to outperform ASA Aero in layer adhesion and tensile strength - not what I expected. Very much looking forward to your results, Troy! And thanks for getting back to me!
@@GhostRyderFPV Ya that does sound about right actually. I have notices bad layer adhesion when trying to print single wall construction with PETG or ABS when compared to regular PLA.
This was a great video to watch, I enjoyed watching it. Can you make a video showing your computer monitor and setup? How long did it take you to learn fusion 360?
Yes I get asked a lot about the CAD drawing stuff. I will release a video on it eventually. It does take some time to learn CAD. My best advice would to not start with airplanes to learn CAD, start with something simple to draw to learn the software first.
@@TroyMcMillan yes I agree with you about the learning cad thing. I wanna teach my son about cad and model airplane building. Great, great video loved . Thank you for what you do. We need more people like you. God bless you brother. Keep the vids coming.
There is a spar it is designed into the wing there is a thick section of printed. material that you need to add a heathy about of glue to when joining the wing sections.
Amazing job! Have you given any thought in designing Control line airplanes? I’ve looked the internet over and haven’t found anyone designing 3d printed electric cl planes. Again great Job! 👏
Yes I have given it a some thought. I am interested in trying it out but I have no experience in control line rc planes so I will have to do a bit of homework before I get to work on this. What control line plane do you think I should look at for some inspiration?
Awesome and congratulations on the baby girl. Love all US military aircrafts. I fly large scale RC helicopter (UH-60, AH-64, UH-1Y) and would love to have a CH53-E model, so please create one. Thank you sharing the videos.
You want to use a 3D Printer as a coffee maker. It just works. I know a lot out there hate that idea but yes, there are some that simply want their coffee. :) (No, I am not a Bambufan, but yes, am a QIDIFan. :) )
What size build plate is required? I have an MK4S. Will that work? excellent work, dude, keep up the good job. Man, I wish I can do that. I can barely run my printer. much less design anything that takes talent and you have it in Spades.
Thank you, I originally started to build it to fit on 200x200x200 but unfortunately the large center fuselage parts are 205mm wide so I am saying it requires a 210x210x210 build plate.
I have NOT tried this with lightweight PLA, but I imagine it would be the same as "regular" PLA . Instead of using CA, as I have found it be brittle on PLA, I use the same stuff the styrene plastic model folks use. Tamaya has 3 viscosities. I just use the thick and super thin. It chemically welds the joints so the 2 parts become one. In my limited testing, I found the print breaks before the joint.
Can you make son adapter like you did the dummy outboard blades, but for a propeller no Edf to made the aircraft more efficient for long flight, specially FPV with Inav installed. Will be a great option for FPV pilots.
This is actually a good idea and I was thinking of turning this into and FPV plane. SO just to clarify you are saying to make a motor mount that would hold a brushless motor and a propeller rather than using an EDF to fly it. The prop blade would probably be something like an 8in prop so it would stick out and be larger than the cowling.
Well anything is possible. I just preferred not to just to save weight and to trade the convenience of retracts for better flight characteristics. I figured someone would buy it and add landing gear to it if they really wanted to but I am going to keep it the way it is. It just flies so nice how light it is without gear.
Ya but the bracket would then need to be glued to the wing so at some point it would need to be connected with glue some where. It is plenty strong enough at this size. I agree if it was larger it would need some more support but for just a small 50mm edf on a plane this light it is not needed.
Right now I mainly sell just the STL files. I have tried to sell some of my actual airplanes but they are to large to ship so shipping is always $500 to $1000 let alone the cost of the plane. So you can by a 3d printer and build it yourself for cheaper then it cost to ship the plane.
Yes it can be and was designed as an option because I thought there would be few people out there that would want to try it. The problem is you are increasing weight and not increasing the wing area so you are just increasing weight per area on the wing so you will need to fly it faster witch you will have more powers so not a problem but more power means more battery needed so it is all a trade off just depends what you would like.
Thanks for this new video. Because of you I just ordered a Bambu Lab P1S with AMS and I will probably order one of your planes. Do you have a bambu studio profile to share for the LW-PLA please ? Many thanks and greating from France !
I love 99.9% about this design. Do you think that the filament control hinge could get brittle and crack over time? My PLA filament that sits out in the open gets so dang brittle.
Ya the first time I tried this I thought the same thing but I actually have planes now that are 2 years old with this style hinge with no problems. If you are worried thought you can just use carbon fiber rod rather that pla.
impressive..... needs some socket holes on the sides to plug in mounts for JATO ROCKETS !!!!! we gotta see this thing with 2 of those mini estes motors per side use the A8-0 (boost only no ejection charge)... this thing would leap off the ground !!! if you can get the ignitors to all fire at the same time
this is without a doubt the coolest 3d printed rc plane ever built!
Thank You!!
This looks amazing and so fun to fly! Looks like it just wants to fly too. Very good for new to novices flyers.
When the captain rolled it, I was like, ok, I'm building this!
I too have been missing your videos, but you did respond to my email fast. You make these videos and builds look TO EASY! I don't think most realize what it takes to make and edit a video like this. Capturing the printing, the build, and then flying, with voice over, OMG, all I can say is thank you!
Then I just looked and you have sourced out and linked all the parts too!!!!
Your family is so lucky to have a man of your caliber helping take care of them.
Sorry for the long post.....
Thank you sir!
Thank you for the very nice comment. It does take a lot of work so I am happy to see that you appreciate all the work and time it takes.
Want to say thank you for your videos. I started this hobby 3 years ago. Your the one that inspired me to give 3D models a try. I went though the comments and thought I would let you know. Keep up the great work.
Thanks man that is awesome that I inspired you to give it a try. Hopefully you give this plane a try it is a really nice plane. Cheers!
This combines everything I love; warbirds, RC, and 3d printing. And the parachute mechanism is a nice touch. I love seeing every new project you put out. I can't wait for you to do a classic bomber next!
Thank you. A classic bomber would be awesome. Witch one and what size do you think I should make?
I've always loved the B17 flying fortress
We've been curious about your whereabouts, but it's understandable given your busy time expanding your team. Congratulations on the new addition to your family and the impressive new aircraft!
Yes exactly that is why it was a must to show her on the video she explains the time between the builds. Thank you for the nice comment. Cheers
Love your background music !!!! And loved this build so much infact that I subscribed !!! Well done and Thank you for being out there doing it . I'm very happy to have found your channel. GOD bless you and your loved one's 👍
Wow thank you so much for the nice comment and for subscribing I really appreciate it so much. GOD bless
If you wrap glued in servos with a layer of black electrical tape, it makes them easier to salvage. All you have to do is cut the tape and peal the tape, then the servo can be reused.
He had tape on bottom of servos
Yeah, that is a great hack to point out. I do use painters tape on the bottom of the servos for that very reason, I like it to be very tidy and minimal for the video haha.
I have 2 C-17 foam models that used 4-40 MM EDF units. I am currently replacing the fans/engines because the ones it came with are junk. I had one fan detonate on takeoff and 3 engines weren't enough to keep the plane flying. Since my C-17s are about the same size as yours I might try twin 50 MM edf units in it with empty outboard nacelles. I noticed that on your models, the landing gear sponsons are the same length (which makes sense aerodynamically) yet on my aircraft, the right sponson is longer than the left one. The reason the right sponson is longer is because the designers realized at the last minute that they hadn't placed the APU in the aircraft yet so the lengthened the right sponson while leaving the left one at the original design length. My C-17s are plug & play and a bit on the heavy side. Your aircraft look and fly amazing! Great job!
Ya maybe try duel 50mm in your and try to shed some weight off. Nice catch on the sponson. Yes I decided to adjust this from scale so that they would work more as skies to takeoff and land on. It does fly great the main reason is just due to how light the plane is. Good luck with your C-17s. Cheers
Wowowow! You've outdone yourself this time Troy :-D Just picked up a bambu x1c myself so I might have to print this one out! Huge congrats on the new addition to your family as well! ^_^
Thank you. Yes definitely give this one a try it is so easy to print.
A-MA-ZING. Really nice looking plane, glad to see you back, and welcome to your new crew member!
Thank you!
Troy Great job on this one, both the video and the plane. The video shows so much more personality than some other previous videos. Keep up the good work! Congrats on the addition!
Thank you for this comment it definitely does show more personality. I figured there was enough channels out there that show hands building random things so I figured I would show a human building something. Thank you for the congrats! Cheers
I like when you said "3D printing is not my hobby" ... I feel exactly the same way ... they are tools, I want them to work. I use Prusa and Formlabs printers. Every time someone says I "overpaid" I remind them that I NEVER have failed prints ... and my time is not free.
The stuff you build is crazy! Glad to see that more people are getting into 3d printed planes, thanks to people like you. Personally, I love this 3d printed beauty the most and then the 3d printed A350 and A330 i saw on cults3d. Great job Troy, keep building more awesome planes!!
Thank you!
Beautiful design and flight dynamics 👍🏻
thank you so much!
Wow, very nice designed C-17!
Thank you!
@@TroyMcMillan I have purchased all your designs and will be purchasing this as well. I like to see how other designers go about their designs of 3D printed airplanes. I have not built any as of yet, but I like looking at the designs.
@@TroyMcMillan Just purchased the files for the C-17
Awesome design and build work young man. The last plane of Douglas, originally the YF-15 competing with Boeing's YC-14. I inspected the 1st two wire harness in development on the C-17 early in 1989, LOX.
That is just so awesome, you were there at the start!
So glad you’re making videos again!!!!
Yes! and I'm hoping to be releasing my next video in the next or so!
Yep me too 😊, I guess you’ve been busy with the new baby, congratulations to you both ❤
I do CAD design work for my model railroad. That plane HAD to have been a massive design effort. Congratulations! It's awesome.
Edit: tried the "all parts" link and got the "something went wrong" response.
Yes it was a massive deign effort for sure. Thank you.
I will get the all parts link working thank you for letting me know.
Required parts.
1 roll of LW-PLA
Medium CA Glue
2 50mm EDFs
2 40amp ESC
5 9g servos
Servo wire extensions
1 Battery
Nothing short of awesome
thank you so much!
Theres folk out there they just have amazing talent.
Thank you!
Dude, awesome work! Great video too, keep it up 🤘
Thank you Trenton!!
Your channel is awesome
Troy, you are so inspiring. After watching a some of your videos a while back, I spent the whole last year printing a building planes. Such an incredibly fun hobby. This C-17 is incredible. Great work!
Wow, that thing just floats!! Looks like a really easy flier. Even though I've really been wanting to, I've been intimidated to fly any airliner-style planes for fear that they would fly to fast for me (I get nervous flying RC jets), but this thing looks so friendly to fly. Super cool.
Ya I agree I was a bit nervous the first time I flew a swept wing RC jet also. If you are looking at making the jump this is definitely a good one it is so light and the wing on the C-17 is so large in comparison to the rest of the plane there is a lot of wing area making it a great slow flyer you can fly this plane around on one battery at 50 percent throttle or less just fine.
First this plane looked and flew amazingly! You are miles ahead of the companies out there that have 3d printed planes. Second, I have a request. No company has made a P-40 that flies well. I was hoping in one of your future projects, you can make one please and thank you!
Wow thank you for the nice comment. That is why I started doing my own designs I just had some cool planes I wanted to build and some ideas for some better features to try out.
The P-40 would be a cool airplane to build. What size wing would you like to see for that build.
@@TroyMcMillan That is up you. If smaller is easier, than smaller. If larger is easier, than larger lol. I will print whatever you make and fly it till it dies.
I've been waiting for you for a long time. I often looked at the channel to see if there was a new video. I'm glad that everything is fine. I have notifications turned off, but today I accidentally went to the channel and was delighted by the new video.
Thank you for being so interested in my channel that is very nice feedback to here. I would really like to start posting much more consistent. So hopefully you will start seeing more videos. Cheers
WOW, this is a very incredible model. You are very talented! I just bought the files and I cant wait to build it.
Thank you for the purchase! Have fun with the build this plane is so cool.
Looks fanntastic...next on my list, love your step by step videos and yay youve gone to bambu labs..so much more straightforward .congrats on the addition...
Thank you. Yes the bambu lab printers are very nice
Awesome build and great plane!!!❤
Thank you so much!
Nice job. The Grumpy Modeller has also built a few Herc’s, but I like this design. Congrats on becoming a Dad BTW.
Thank you!
Absolutely amazing! I love it! Been up many times in the real thing but I have never landed in one lol love the paratroopers
Thank you, I love this plane I have only been able to enjoy looking at the C-17 from a distance it is such an amazing looking airplane.
The paratroopers are my favorite part also.
Your best video yet!! 👏👏
Thank you, the best camera lady ever!
Awesome plane !. Congratulations on your new family member .
Thank you!
Congratulations on your little girl, and very well done on this new model, it looks fantastic ❤
Thank you so much!
So good, always excited for more of your videos! Picked up a bambu p1s, built a plane and crashed it! Haven't had time to rebuild!
Awwww dang sorry to hear that. Defiantly need to get it rebuilt. What plane did you do?
@TroyMcMillan eclipson model c, not 100% sure what happened but I think my rutter servo got stuck in a turn.
Great design and build. Have you tried Colorfabb or Bambu Lab LW ASA instead of LW PLA?
I have tried Colorfabb but not Bambu Lab yet I just got some I will test it out and let you guys know about it.
Amazing model 👍 Do you think there is huge difference between X1C and P1S ?
Next model suggestion : an iconic fighter like F14 or something older like F9F or F4 😉
Ya definitely I would love to build an F14 with retractable wing system. As far as print quality there is no difference between the X1 and the P1 the X1 just had more belles and whistles but the print quality will be the same.
@@TroyMcMillan great Idea an F14 👍
Feels like RC Powers all over again 😍
Nice job, great to see you back and congrats on the new team member.
Thank you! She is great helper.
Good to see you back Troy it's been a minute. Have you upgraded to Capt. yet? What are you flying now? Does Capt. Paul fly for UA looks familiar. Great build Troy this is in my wheelhouse. I was a Loadmaster for 20 yrs on the C-17 & 141. I'm definitely going to build this to add to my collection. Hope you do a C-5 someday.
Thanks man, I haven't upgraded yet my schedule is way too good in the right seat. I am flying the 320. Paul doesn't fly for UA. Ya a C-5 would be an awesome project.
Hell yeah! They look amazing!
Damn so close to the C-130 Hercules
thank you so much!
Amazing build!
Thanks I really appreciate it!
Legend says that launch dolly is still rolling after your take off
LOL Yes its is
I've just started getting interested in 3D printing and RC planes. Amazing work!
Perfect timing this is a great project to start with the printing is so easy anyone could print this plane.
Amazing work!! Genius how you use filament for the control surface hinges. I have the Bambu Lab and love it. Which slicer do you use?
Thank you, the filament hinge just keeps the required parts list minimal. I use BambuStudio Slicer for this build.
Nice! I got to have it! Looks like next project after my C-47.
Yes! Nice the C-47 is a fun project. I hope you enjoy when you start on it!
Great designs- love the C17. Very nice features!
Thank you!
OH MY GOD HE'S BACK HOLY CRAP
Heck ya I am back LOL.
Cheers
cool to see your vid ! few days ago i asked myself if you have stoped ...
Thank you, yep still alive lol
Very nice!!! Looks great!
Thank you Brian!!
This is so bad ass! What brand of LW PLA are you using? Did you test one with 4 EDF's?
I use 3D LabPrint PolyLight LW-PLA (Light Gray) for this build.
I have not tested this with 4 EDF's it would be so over powered the power to weight ratio with two EDFs is already twice the power needed so with 4 EDFs it would basically be a rocket at that point you could do vertical takeoffs. :)
If you try it sent me a video I would love to see it.
Hell yeah lets go ! Can we scale up the files of the 727 you made to make a larger rc plane ?
You could try but it would take some work to make everything fit correctly. It won't fit together as well as I designed it to.
YOOOOO those UND tails my man that's sick! What filament did you use? I'm a current student and would love to print one
Thanks, It is printed out of silk PLA
Absolutely amazing design and plane! Really good video. Don't listen to those morons. I like the music! Got to get flitetest to fly this and advertise your design!!! So good!!
Thank I appreciate the comment for the music.
Ya that would be cool if flitetest would build this!
@@TroyMcMillancontact The David at Flite Test ask them what kind of deal and kickback they get from Eclipson videos. Make a deal and I bet you they'll print it. Surely it's all about money. You'll get more sales too.
I have to buy a model from you soon ! You are doing an amazing job sharing your knowledge with the community!
Thank you so much!
very nice design and build. Great that you give the bambu labs settings. I have never been able to get a good light weight PLA print. The layers seem to just separate at the slightest knock. Maybe I just need to try a different brand.
Here is the setting for this design of plane.
th-cam.com/users/shortshanTCyoud8U
I use 3D lab-print LW-PLA with 265c at 0.6 flow with the X1C printer
so you use the pre-foamed lw pla?
I can only get eSun epla-lw locally. There is a 3-part Reddit article discussing settings. My issues came right when I limited the max volumetric speed to 5 mm2/s. Strangely, I get much better results with the white, but the black is a lot weaker. I lightly sand it and then coat with epoxy resin.
@@290Alenka No I like the Active Foaming material from 3d lab or colorfabb. It saves around 45% from standard PLA. The Pre-foamed material only saves around 20% from standard PLA
@@TroyMcMillan okay will give it a try Downloading your design over the weekend
in the middle of making the last plane, now i want to build this one lol
Yes get this on the printer it is such an awesome build!!
@TroyMcMillan yes sir it's for sure a must
Awesome build. I would love to see the process of designing the whole airplane in fusion 360.
Yes I get this a lot I will make a video for this.
Love this build and plane so much! I think i will go ahead and try this as my first 3d printed plane.
For the EDFs, do you think it matters if the motors spin in the same direction or should they be opposite of each other? I have a C160 and the two props are counter-rotating from each other so im curious if it would help on this plane with the EDFs
Yess definitely a great first plane to 3D print. Designed in vase mode so super easy to print.
The EDF don't need to spin counter clockwise and they cant because the blades would have to be reversed witch is not a thing for propellers you can buy CW and CCW props and make one of the motor spin the other direction. But with EDFs you don't have the same P-factor turning tendency as props have.
Have fun with the build!
@TroyMcMillan Thanks for the reply!
I should have clarified that I didn't mean to reverse the direction of the motor, rather use a CW and CCW EDF, but good to know it does matter! Would you know what kind of flight time do you get out of the plane on 3s?
@@22lambo Ya true you could use a CCW EDF but it does not have much effect on EDF setup. So I would say if you want to and it is easy to get then yes but if not you definitely done need them to be counter rotating.
As far as flight time on my 3s 2200mah I flew it for 4min you could put duel packs side by side and if you flew it on 50% or less power you could get at least 8min if not more.
Another awesome project! Thank you!
Thank you!
Beautiful. Where can the stl. Be obtained and how many hours of. Print?
around 60 hours of print, you can purchase it at my website here's the link: www.troymcmillanrc.com/c17
My dude, you took all the X out of your X1C, without those two setting you have my P1S lol. I'm attempting a similar type of build, a P3C Orion. Not too many renders out there.
A question for you Sir - have you attempted using ASA Aero from Bambu? I've seen tests where it performs worse than PLA LW/Aero, but want to ask the master himself haha
Ya I did take the X out but for these vase mode printed planes it works the best with those setting off.
Good question on the ASA Aero they just sent some of it to me so I will have it out for my next plane.
@@TroyMcMillan The videos I've seen so far comparing the two have had interesting results. Whereas the ASA had higher heat tolerance, the PLA Aero seemed to outperform ASA Aero in layer adhesion and tensile strength - not what I expected. Very much looking forward to your results, Troy! And thanks for getting back to me!
@@GhostRyderFPV Ya that does sound about right actually. I have notices bad layer adhesion when trying to print single wall construction with PETG or ABS when compared to regular PLA.
This was a great video to watch, I enjoyed watching it. Can you make a video showing your computer monitor and setup? How long did it take you to learn fusion 360?
Yes I get asked a lot about the CAD drawing stuff. I will release a video on it eventually. It does take some time to learn CAD. My best advice would to not start with airplanes to learn CAD, start with something simple to draw to learn the software first.
@@TroyMcMillan yes I agree with you about the learning cad thing. I wanna teach my son about cad and model airplane building. Great, great video loved . Thank you for what you do. We need more people like you. God bless you brother. Keep the vids coming.
How long was the printing? Thanks, amazing job!
It takes 60hrs of printing @ 50mm/s
An AMAZING design.
Thank you!
Best looking one yet Excellent job
Thank you, This has definitely been a labor of love a lot of time when into this project.
Fantastic design and flight!!
thank you so much!
Wow Troy! An absolute masterpiece!!!!!!!
Thank you
I'm surprized at the lack of a continuous spar especially at the wing root! Apparently a small plastic overlap is sufficient?
There is a spar it is designed into the wing there is a thick section of printed. material that you need to add a heathy about of glue to when joining the wing sections.
Another amazing build
Thanks again!
I recommend silicone glue for the servo covers. Removable.
Ya that is a good idea.
Excellent...! Double that size should do it..!!!!!!!!!!!
Ya double the size would be cool.
Beautiful plane - bravo!
Thank you!!
That's a fantastic model. I'm looking to build your design. How much filament is needed to build one plane?
Yes definitely give this one a try it is my best design yet. It take less than one roll of LW-PLA.
Amazing job! Have you given any thought in designing Control line airplanes? I’ve looked the internet over and haven’t found anyone designing 3d printed electric cl planes. Again great Job! 👏
Yes I have given it a some thought. I am interested in trying it out but I have no experience in control line rc planes so I will have to do a bit of homework before I get to work on this. What control line plane do you think I should look at for some inspiration?
Awesome and congratulations on the baby girl. Love all US military aircrafts. I fly large scale RC helicopter (UH-60, AH-64, UH-1Y) and would love to have a CH53-E model, so please create one. Thank you sharing the videos.
Thank you! I will definitely add this to the list I have been thinking of making a helicopter at some point.
Excelente como sempre, Parabéns
thank you!!
飞机很漂亮，起落架很有意思！
You want to use a 3D Printer as a coffee maker. It just works. I know a lot out there hate that idea but yes, there are some that simply want their coffee. :) (No, I am not a Bambufan, but yes, am a QIDIFan. :) )
Well said I guess I just want my coffee I don't care to design the coffee machine :)
great job! How well does it lend itself to being scaled up to 80mm fans?
It would be challenging to scale it that large nothing would fit the way I was designed.
What size build plate is required? I have an MK4S. Will that work? excellent work, dude, keep up the good job. Man, I wish I can do that. I can barely run my printer. much less design anything that takes talent and you have it in Spades.
Thank you, I originally started to build it to fit on 200x200x200 but unfortunately the large center fuselage parts are 205mm wide so I am saying it requires a 210x210x210 build plate.
@TroyMcMillan Thank you very much for your response. That is really appreciated in today's day and age.
@@mrsmith324 Today's day and age exactly! could not agree more
I have NOT tried this with lightweight PLA, but I imagine it would be the same as "regular" PLA . Instead of using CA, as I have found it be brittle on PLA, I use the same stuff the styrene plastic model folks use. Tamaya has 3 viscosities. I just use the thick and super thin. It chemically welds the joints so the 2 parts become one. In my limited testing, I found the print breaks before the joint.
Can you make son adapter like you did the dummy outboard blades, but for a propeller no Edf to made the aircraft more efficient for long flight, specially FPV with Inav installed. Will be a great option for FPV pilots.
This is actually a good idea and I was thinking of turning this into and FPV plane.
SO just to clarify you are saying to make a motor mount that would hold a brushless motor and a propeller rather than using an EDF to fly it.
The prop blade would probably be something like an 8in prop so it would stick out and be larger than the cowling.
2:41 if you don't you use the lidar! Buy a p1s and save yourself 50% with no performance loss
Ya this is true the p1s is a good option to save some money but it is also nice to have those features if I want to use them.
Hey Troy, could you do a tutorial on how you design the interlocking fuselage segment joints? :)
Ya I get asked a lot about the design of my planes. I will probably do a Fusion 360 tutorial in the future to show how I design my planes.
@@TroyMcMillan this would be fantastic. Thank you so much for replying 😁
Awesome. Thanks for sharing
Thank you!
How hard (or easy) would it be to add retracts?
Well anything is possible. I just preferred not to just to save weight and to trade the convenience of retracts for better flight characteristics. I figured someone would buy it and add landing gear to it if they really wanted to but I am going to keep it the way it is. It just flies so nice how light it is without gear.
Awesome great work.😀
Thank you! Cheers!
Congrartulation!🔝
Thank you!
It would be cool if the engine mounted into a bracket on the wing so just glue wasn't all that hold it.
Ya but the bracket would then need to be glued to the wing so at some point it would need to be connected with glue some where. It is plenty strong enough at this size. I agree if it was larger it would need some more support but for just a small 50mm edf on a plane this light it is not needed.
awesome built!!
Sick. So do u offer a version that has a rudder?
No I don't offer a version with a rudder with no landing gear there is not much need for directional control on the ground.
WOW, amazing this makes me kind of want to get into this stuff. I am kind of but don't really have friends to share it with
Finally new video❤
Thank you!
Amazing....if only I had the space...
Amazing. Do you offer selling any of your work. I’m interested
Right now I mainly sell just the STL files. I have tried to sell some of my actual airplanes but they are to large to ship so shipping is always $500 to $1000 let alone the cost of the plane. So you can by a 3d printer and build it yourself for cheaper then it cost to ship the plane.
it flies on 2 motors.. that means the outer 2 are decorative..
that means this thing COULD potentially fly on 4 motors and be even more insane..
The question is whether the thrust is worth the weight
Exactly thank you
Yes it can be and was designed as an option because I thought there would be few people out there that would want to try it.
The problem is you are increasing weight and not increasing the wing area so you are just increasing weight per area on the wing so you will need to fly it faster witch you will have more powers so not a problem but more power means more battery needed so it is all a trade off just depends what you would like.
Saw that embry riddle verticle stabilizer did you go there?
No I did not.
@TroyMcMillan why did you make it any specific reason
Thanks for this new video.
Because of you I just ordered a Bambu Lab P1S with AMS and I will probably order one of your planes.
Do you have a bambu studio profile to share for the LW-PLA please ?
Many thanks and greating from France !
I love 99.9% about this design. Do you think that the filament control hinge could get brittle and crack over time? My PLA filament that sits out in the open gets so dang brittle.
Ya the first time I tried this I thought the same thing but I actually have planes now that are 2 years old with this style hinge with no problems. If you are worried thought you can just use carbon fiber rod rather that pla.
@TroyMcMillan thats a long time!! In the desert no less! Super cool 👏 great idea 👏
@@its_generik Yes exactly in the desert also.
Your airplane is very beautiful; I hope you will make a Tu-160 White Swan airplane as well.
Thank you, Ya that would be an awesome airplane to build.
impressive..... needs some socket holes on the sides to plug in mounts for JATO ROCKETS !!!!! we gotta see this thing with 2 of those mini estes motors per side use the A8-0 (boost only no ejection charge)... this thing would leap off the ground !!! if you can get the ignitors to all fire at the same time
Yesssss I agree that would be epic