I am 57 years old and have been flying RC incl large jets for many years. I have now bought a 3D printer and I am so pleased to see a Young man doing this sort of thing and blending old skills with modern tech. Very well done I am sure you will go far in life
Disclaimer, I did not build this in its entirety. However, I did use your settings in conjunction with the ini files provided by 3DPrintLab to start building their aircraft, and you solved so many issues with some of your settings, Thank you so much for the asistance and I love your channel, keep up the good work. I will build this AC (aircraft) in the future when I get the trainer I am building complete. Thanks again for the assist!
Hi Tom; First, thanks for this amazing plane design! It took me about 2 weeks to get the parts to 3D print on my PRUSA MK3S printer. I have to admit the free PrusaSlicer software is an amazing slicer. 1. On the Fuselage front I needed to turn on “Detect thin walls” on “Print Setting” and “Layers and perimeters”. I also printed it 150% on the Z axis to make the nose longer for better center of gravity or CG. 2. I change the “Perimeters” to 2 and the “Solid Layers” both top and bottom to 0. This setting is also located in “Print Setting” and “Layers and perimeters”. The perimeter increase made the parts much stronger and only added about 100 grams to the weight of the plane. The 0 top and bottom allowed the male and females ends to go together. I added a 5 mm “Brim width” located at on “Print Setting” and “Skirt and brim”. I ended up printing each wing piece separately and each was rotated so that the female end of the wing segment was on the print bed. I also used a bit of glue from a glue stick to help keep the wing parts on the print bed. 3. To make the canopy fit the new longer nose, I ended up printing canopy X axis at 145mm or about 130%. 4. To assembly everything, I used a deburr tool, hobby knife and pointed cutters. I also used latex gloves when gluing the parts together. I recommend you taking you time when gluing the parts together and let sections dry before continuing. 5. The winglet prints with a small post at the front and 2 half inch wedge pieces about midway down the winglet. These get pushed through the material printed on male end of the outer wing section. You can use a hobby knife to cut away material to help the wedges to fit. A few design changes that would be nice. 1. The inner wing pieces on the male side of the wing have both the front and back sections tapered to allow for easy fit into female side of the middle wing section. I recommend the same be done to the middle wing sections. I ended up having to cut these to get the pieces to fit the outer wing sections. 2. The rib support on the female side of the inner wing and outer wing need to be cut back about 1/8 of inch. To get the pieces to fix I had to manual cut away material to get a good fix. Again Tom, thanks for a great design! Richard Boyhan
Great job man! I've designed RC airplanes before, have a glider in some files around yet to build. But you man, have embraced the present and steered towards the future. Outstanding job.
What the heck 76 people who disliked the video. Jeezus so unappreciative. Cool video bro, I really like the plane and the simplicity of the design. Do you have an engineering background by chance?
This video helps a ton. I've been working on a design for very long flight times but I was holding back on aerodynamics to keep construction simple, and was not sold on 3D printing it, I was going to cnc some foam. I might do a hybrid.
Just bought a new Anycubic high speed printer. I have downloaded the files and will do a couple of test prints to see if the higher speed compromises strength. I am a few years older than the message below but totally support his views on your enthusiasm. Well done I will let you know how my test prints go.
I have printed this thing over a half year ago, today I managed to get it in the air ;) It flys really great, but I made some mistakes at glueing it together, so it broke in half after a hard turn ;) Sadly, I have no video footage from the first flight. I used a 2200mAh battery, whith this the CG is good enough and I even don't had to trimm the plane much. It was flying out of the printer :) I used the Motor, which Tom suggested with a 20A Turnigy ESC and a 5045 prop, cheap 5g servos (will be changed to better ones) and organgeRX receiver.
haha - had the same issue - mine also broke apart midair, due to not fully dried CA. I wonder if Epoxy is better. It would also be nice to have a Shaft where you can put in a carbonfibre tube or something to stiffen the plane.
Tom, finally got an ender 3 and I'm printing out the fuselage right now! This has been on my list of projects when I was finally able to get my printer. I modified mine to be direct drive, combined your recommendations and my modified profile and estimated 14hrs for the largest body part. Thinking I will do my canopy in TPU, run the same motor, and possibly an S6R, if I can't get an XM+ to work with an old FC. Maybe going to tinker with the .STL to allow for FPV - that should allow me to use the 1300mah battery without adding nose weight and fpv capability! Will post it all once I can get it up
i used 5% infill on the wings to strengthen it up a bit but have to chop out some infill so it all fits together properly. The nose cone I printed tip first for better strength and quality, only needs a little bit of sanding to make it nice looking surface wise, the canopy is a bit annoying no matter how you print it, it always comes out with squiggles so i printed it with supports touching build plate only and printed with support interface using lines as the support pattern looks tops.
awesome got my printer warning up right now to print this. awesome using quad copter parts I got lots of unused motors and ESC. Look forward to seeing an FPV version. thanks allot
I started printing version seven of this. It will take me some time to save up for the RC electronics as I don't have any. I wanted to do RC planes as a kid but was so expensive 35 years ago. I got to briefly fly this motorized plane that was attached with strings to a handle and promptly crashed it. Couldn't get my parents to let me try again :( Now I can 3d print a plane and the electronics aren't too bad.
really cool. I'm just wondering why would you print this in PLA instead of ABS. ABS is much more impact-resistant, it's lighter (PLA density is 1.25 g/cm^3 while ABS is 1.04 g/cm^3, so kinda significant difference) and generally cheaper too. Won't melt in direct sun in the summer either ;)
Hans Olo ABS is much softer/flexible, harder to print, prone to warping (especially with 1 wall thickness) and UV sensitive so yeah ABS could be good if used properly but PLA is just easier and simpler for most people.
Hi Tom, wonderful project and wonderful results. This is the best 3d printed wing I've seen to date. I can't wait to see an FPV version and will be keeping an eye on this channel. Good work!! Cheers, dave
Awesome! Well done and thanks for sharing! Seven thumbs down? = people who thought it was full sized and could climb aboard and fly themselves to Bermuda.
Wich battery is used because i want to make this rc plane and the link of the battery in the discription doesn’t work anymore and wich transmitter and receiver do you used
Cool video! Love the whole idea of 3D printing planes. AWESOME! the sky is literally the limit! And thank you for putting in the technical info as well.
So I know that you obviously did this a long time ago, but I am just now coming across it, and it looks fun. I started printing it a few months ago, but then I ran out of PLA and had to wait until I got more. But I just got my next reel of PLA in today and so I'm gonna finish this off and hopefully have it in the air in the next day or so. I'll let you know how it goes.
Just started on my journey of building this plane this is my 2nd plane I’ve made it’s grey PlA + spray painted place the plane is fun but I recommend that you fill the plane with light weight expanding foam this helps when you crash you absorb the Impack other than that great model plane 👍🏻👍🏿👍🏾👍🏼👍🏽
This plane looks very good I will print this out ASAP!!!! thank you for the files, i am an freshman in college studying Aero as well so i really want to try my own 3d printed plane soon. In the mean time I need to practice. Great Channel Stanton!!!
Excellent work. I would like to see another version with slots on the trailing edge of the main wing as well as on the front of the ailerons in order to fit in printed hinges. I think this would achieve more of a complete look versus using packaging tape - just MHO.
This is my 2nd print on my ender 3 pro first was a benchy I am already experienced in flying airplanes the fuselage is printing right now can't wait for it to finish
Very impressive! Thanks for the tips on PLA as I tried 3d printing a glider recently and found it started cracking after a few crashes - will try higher temperatures as suggested, and also have bought some ABS to try.
Thank you soo much! I was wanting plans since I saw the last video showing it was a proven design but didnt want to ask. Looks like you got all the details - You should name this, and get credit for the long run of this new method of plane building. Keep up the good work StantonFPV!
Hey ! - great project !! made my day, was just about to get a foam version, when i saw this and was like heeelll yeessss - ps, i am an experienced prototypist and am passionate about modding and building anything i can get my hands on....however my rc experience is not quite the same case, but i fell in-love with this design.... so i am keen to get in touch and and happy to help work out FPV mods, redesigns and so on. - once again, big up to you man, really great wing and i look forward to following the progression
Cool, good job. I look at that and the first thing that pops into my head: "fragile". I know it's a 3D printing exercise but have thought about adding a really thin layer, or two, of fibreglass? Toughen it up considerably without a massive weight penalty. Could be too heavy I suppose, so ,double the size, give it two motors and the sky is yours!
Must print this when my Prusa arrives of ebay. This would be a good early project for me, I love r/c stuff and 3d printers are perfect for all kinda r/c models. Power pack should be cheap too, you can get a motor + esc of ebay for around £10 nowaday's, I already got a few 9g servo's so, it's like an r/c plane for £25. I bet they fly just as good as anything you can buy of shelf in model shop or online.
Glider folks who usually have to glue their servos in like to wrap them with masking tape before gluing them, that way they can still be removed. Also, you might want to make a couple vents to cool your ESC.
Just started printing this unfortunately had to cut some models in half or more to fit it on the build plate but gonna use some dowels to keep it together will let you know how it goes such a cool design
Great work! I will definitely be printing this sometime late spring when I start flying again. Have you thought about releasing the CAD files as well and starting something like an Open Source Wing Project? I'm not asking you to do so, it just come to my mind, because I love the 3D printing community and I'm sure people (haha maybe me too) would come up with some amazing little upgrades here and there. Thanks again for the great work and stl files :)
You can set the light momentary Switch on your Radio to "Throttle Override 0%". Then it's easy to keep the switch pushed with your right middle finger with throttle in the desired position. Just let the switch go, and the motor will spin up. No mouth involved anymore :-)
good to see you got your left hand, mouth throttle launch technique down. unfortunately I don't have a printer. could I ask you for a recommendation on a fpv camera and tx for fixed wing and where to get it from. I have some fatshark attitude V3 with the standard reciever. thanks
Hey weird suggestion idea. maybe you could instead of printing the wings only print the inside pattern inside and a place for the servos. then instead pull some thin light plastic really tightly around the wings and glue it? or something but I thought that'd save it a lot of weight. the insides of the wing will shape it very well as far as I can guess. tho I'm sure those food plastic bags are way too fragile and thin for this. but something similar could work :)
Nice! Like. The design. Could you add winglets that go up and down on the wingtip? Would give you a bit more slip stability. And with enough power you could do a vertical start. Also: what do you think about a carbon rod in each wing?
Since it's so easy to crank out wings, you should experiment with different surface textures! Dimples, raised, hexagons, icosahedral. You could also mess around with vortex generators.
Very Nice Project ! Super excited and just started printing. Only got 1 weird thing... the "holes" in the bottom of the Fuselage are actually hole in 4 versions of the Cura Slicer and in the original stl fire they Aren't Which slicer are you running ?
Great project, thanks for sharing! I would love to use the printvolume of my printers wich is 300x300x400mm. Would it be possible to customize the stl files? I think it would be even stiffer. Pretty nice plane tough!
Well I printed one, and having no knowledge of RC planes or 3d printers it went well looked good flew 20feet and took a dirt nap. hahahahahaha am printing another one. I love the idea of it.
Hey Tom - great work. Where the 200mm build volume needed, I was all sad as my printer only manages around 170x170 on the x/y but looking at silc3r it just seemed to fit in (presumably the inner wings are the biggest parts) You could do a very quick and dirty FPV with one of the "tiny Whoop" style camera/vtx's like the Eachine TX03 connected into the 5v reg
When printing the fuselage back section with the motor mount to the bed, it's 198.5mm high on the Z axis. Yes I will either modify the canopy for micro FPV gear or modify the nose section for a HS1177 camera! Thanks mate
This is sweet! Love how you managed to get the strength in your wings using regular PLA. @FliteTest should take a look at this! ps - The sound of the jumbo overhead amuses me at the end :)
Have you thought about making an RC rocket boost glider? I think your design would be ideal to get the center of gravity far enough ahead of the center of pressure that it would work. I may try to model it on Rocksim and if it looks good I'll start printing. If I get it past tests I'll let you know. Very Nice job!
Very nifty! Have you tried any sort of post processing on the prints? I doubt it would be beneficial in any way besides aesthetics, but it would be interesting to compare.
Looks to be quite a nice starter plane. I don't have any experience with making one but I do want to make an RC plane this year. Eh, why you using your mouth on the controller for speed? Do you have to rev it up or can't you just go to full? Seems like you could 3d print something to hold it full then remove once plane is in the air.
Great video. Any chance you could make a short video showing how you designed the wing and which software you used? I've been trying to duplicate your results when it comes to splitting the wing into parts in order to have ribs inside the shell of the wing; however, I've had no success. I've been using 123d Design from Autodesk.
Stanton do you think this would work well with the wing filled with builders foam? I'm thinking for added strength of using spars and builders foam so I can 6 cell it. any thoughts? thank you very much for sharing your design :-)
I am 57 years old and have been flying RC incl large jets for many years. I have now bought a 3D printer and I am so pleased to see a Young man doing this sort of thing and blending old skills with modern tech. Very well done I am sure you will go far in life
This guy comes up with some pretty cool stuff but half way through his videos I always start thinkin', I'm gonna get Rick Rolled any minute.
monkfry
Great... Now I think I'm watching Rick Astley 3D printing a plane.
Yep, RiCk Rolled!!!
Lol wtf
Disclaimer, I did not build this in its entirety. However, I did use your settings in conjunction with the ini files provided by 3DPrintLab to start building their aircraft, and you solved so many issues with some of your settings, Thank you so much for the asistance and I love your channel, keep up the good work. I will build this AC (aircraft) in the future when I get the trainer I am building complete. Thanks again for the assist!
Hi Tom;
First, thanks for this amazing plane design!
It took me about 2 weeks to get the parts to 3D print on my PRUSA MK3S printer.
I have to admit the free PrusaSlicer software is an amazing slicer.
1. On the Fuselage front I needed to turn on “Detect thin walls” on “Print Setting” and “Layers and perimeters”. I also printed it 150% on the Z axis to make the nose longer for better center of gravity or CG.
2. I change the “Perimeters” to 2 and the “Solid Layers” both top and bottom to 0. This setting is also located in “Print Setting” and “Layers and perimeters”. The perimeter increase made the parts much stronger and only added about 100 grams to the weight of the plane. The 0 top and bottom allowed the male and females ends to go together. I added a 5 mm “Brim width” located at on “Print Setting” and “Skirt and brim”. I ended up printing each wing piece separately and each was rotated so that the female end of the wing segment was on the print bed. I also used a bit of glue from a glue stick to help keep the wing parts on the print bed.
3. To make the canopy fit the new longer nose, I ended up printing canopy X axis at 145mm or about 130%.
4. To assembly everything, I used a deburr tool, hobby knife and pointed cutters. I also used latex gloves when gluing the parts together. I recommend you taking you time when gluing the parts together and let sections dry before continuing.
5. The winglet prints with a small post at the front and 2 half inch wedge pieces about midway down the winglet. These get pushed through the material printed on male end of the outer wing section. You can use a hobby knife to cut away material to help the wedges to fit.
A few design changes that would be nice.
1. The inner wing pieces on the male side of the wing have both the front and back sections tapered to allow for easy fit into female side of the middle wing section. I recommend the same be done to the middle wing sections. I ended up having to cut these to get the pieces to fit the outer wing sections.
2. The rib support on the female side of the inner wing and outer wing need to be cut back about 1/8 of inch. To get the pieces to fix I had to manual cut away material to get a good fix.
Again Tom, thanks for a great design!
Richard Boyhan
Great job man! I've designed RC airplanes before, have a glider in some files around yet to build. But you man, have embraced the present and steered towards the future. Outstanding job.
mud stains = you actually fly it!
This design looks really refined after the "Will it fly?" version. Great work.
That's what I call REAL AND FRIENDLY SHARING OF KNOWLEDGES! Thanks a lot Tom! Very instructive explanations and nice details of howto.
What the heck 76 people who disliked the video. Jeezus so unappreciative. Cool video bro, I really like the plane and the simplicity of the design. Do you have an engineering background by chance?
This video helps a ton. I've been working on a design for very long flight times but I was holding back on aerodynamics to keep construction simple, and was not sold on 3D printing it, I was going to cnc some foam. I might do a hybrid.
Just bought a new Anycubic high speed printer. I have downloaded the files and will do a couple of test prints to see if the higher speed compromises strength. I am a few years older than the message below but totally support his views on your enthusiasm. Well done I will let you know how my test prints go.
I have printed this thing over a half year ago, today I managed to get it in the air ;) It flys really great, but I made some mistakes at glueing it together, so it broke in half after a hard turn ;)
Sadly, I have no video footage from the first flight. I used a 2200mAh battery, whith this the CG is good enough and I even don't had to trimm the plane much. It was flying out of the printer :)
I used the Motor, which Tom suggested with a 20A Turnigy ESC and a 5045 prop, cheap 5g servos (will be changed to better ones) and organgeRX receiver.
haha - had the same issue - mine also broke apart midair, due to not fully dried CA. I wonder if Epoxy is better. It would also be nice to have a Shaft where you can put in a carbonfibre tube or something to stiffen the plane.
Tom, finally got an ender 3 and I'm printing out the fuselage right now! This has been on my list of projects when I was finally able to get my printer. I modified mine to be direct drive, combined your recommendations and my modified profile and estimated 14hrs for the largest body part. Thinking I will do my canopy in TPU, run the same motor, and possibly an S6R, if I can't get an XM+ to work with an old FC. Maybe going to tinker with the .STL to allow for FPV - that should allow me to use the 1300mah battery without adding nose weight and fpv capability! Will post it all once I can get it up
How'd it go I got my ender 3 pro hooked up and my fuselage is almost done
i used 5% infill on the wings to strengthen it up a bit but have to chop out some infill so it all fits together properly. The nose cone I printed tip first for better strength and quality, only needs a little bit of sanding to make it nice looking surface wise, the canopy is a bit annoying no matter how you print it, it always comes out with squiggles so i printed it with supports touching build plate only and printed with support interface using lines as the support pattern looks tops.
Looks to fly really well Tom, good looking wing, well done. Look forward to seeing v2.
can you please update the electronic list, they dont work
I download the files in a bit and start printing as a project. Can’t wait m8 well done 👍🏻
Have you made it ?
Awesome wing. I enjoying seeing how you progress through your videos. Please keep up the good work. Can't wait to see what you come up with next.
So cool tom !! Well done
Thanks Dani!!
Hey Tom. Have your print files changed? He prints the wing parts completely closed, while they should be open to glue them.
awesome got my printer warning up right now to print this. awesome using quad copter parts I got lots of unused motors and ESC. Look forward to seeing an FPV version. thanks allot
FPV update?! :D plz! :D would love to see this as a FPV 3D printed wing :D
So the same plane with a camera lol?
replace the blue part that covers the battery and mod it to hold fpv
I started printing version seven of this. It will take me some time to save up for the RC electronics as I don't have any. I wanted to do RC planes as a kid but was so expensive 35 years ago. I got to briefly fly this motorized plane that was attached with strings to a handle and promptly crashed it. Couldn't get my parents to let me try again :( Now I can 3d print a plane and the electronics aren't too bad.
Hey that is fantastic, onto a winner there.
Thanks!
love the background sound effects.
really cool. I'm just wondering why would you print this in PLA instead of ABS. ABS is much more impact-resistant, it's lighter (PLA density is 1.25 g/cm^3 while ABS is 1.04 g/cm^3, so kinda significant difference) and generally cheaper too. Won't melt in direct sun in the summer either ;)
It's probably what most people have laying around ;)
Hans Olo ABS is much softer/flexible, harder to print, prone to warping (especially with 1 wall thickness) and UV sensitive so yeah ABS could be good if used properly but PLA is just easier and simpler for most people.
because is toxic and hard to print. I think PETG is the best solution for this project
Hi Tom, wonderful project and wonderful results. This is the best 3d printed wing I've seen to date. I can't wait to see an FPV version and will be keeping an eye on this channel. Good work!!
Cheers, dave
Great job. If I had a 3d printer, I'd be happy to try this out :).
You should totally make a version which has fpv capabilities!
Awesome! Well done and thanks for sharing! Seven thumbs down? = people who thought it was full sized and could climb aboard and fly themselves to Bermuda.
Wich battery is used because i want to make this rc plane and the link of the battery in the discription doesn’t work anymore and wich transmitter and receiver do you used
Cool video! Love the whole idea of 3D printing planes. AWESOME! the sky is literally the limit! And thank you for putting in the technical info as well.
A very well thought out design. I might have to build one of these!
So I know that you obviously did this a long time ago, but I am just now coming across it, and it looks fun. I started printing it a few months ago, but then I ran out of PLA and had to wait until I got more. But I just got my next reel of PLA in today and so I'm gonna finish this off and hopefully have it in the air in the next day or so. I'll let you know how it goes.
just started experimenting with various temperatures for the wings cant wait to finish the whole aircraft
Finally managed to finish off all the parts now I’m moving on to the assembly of it all
@@harleyrawles6390 Do you remember how much did it cost in total? Including the 3D printing. Also, how much time it took? Thanks!
Just started on my journey of building this plane this is my 2nd plane I’ve made it’s grey PlA + spray painted place the plane is fun but I recommend that you fill the plane with light weight expanding foam this helps when you crash you absorb the Impack other than that great model plane 👍🏻👍🏿👍🏾👍🏼👍🏽
Excellent wing! Thanks for sharing the files!
This plane looks very good I will print this out ASAP!!!! thank you for the files, i am an freshman in college studying Aero as well so i really want to try my own 3d printed plane soon. In the mean time I need to practice. Great Channel Stanton!!!
Excellent work. I would like to see another version with slots on the trailing edge of the main wing as well as on the front of the ailerons in order to fit in printed hinges. I think this would achieve more of a complete look versus using packaging tape - just MHO.
This is my 2nd print on my ender 3 pro first was a benchy I am already experienced in flying airplanes the fuselage is printing right now can't wait for it to finish
Very impressive! Thanks for the tips on PLA as I tried 3d printing a glider recently and found it started cracking after a few crashes - will try higher temperatures as suggested, and also have bought some ABS to try.
Cool design I will be printing it as I really like flying wings I have 10 of them from different places.
Thank you soo much! I was wanting plans since I saw the last video showing it was a proven design but didnt want to ask. Looks like you got all the details - You should name this, and get credit for the long run of this new method of plane building. Keep up the good work StantonFPV!
You are a true rocket scientist lol. Top notch!
StantonFPV great job bro. I've just ordered my first 3d printer. Cr-10 creality. Well excited man 🤘
Oh I've subscribed aswel👍🏽
Hey ! - great project !! made my day, was just about to get a foam version, when i saw this and was like heeelll yeessss - ps, i am an experienced prototypist and am passionate about modding and building anything i can get my hands on....however my rc experience is not quite the same case, but i fell in-love with this design.... so i am keen to get in touch and and happy to help work out FPV mods, redesigns and so on. - once again, big up to you man, really great wing and i look forward to following the progression
Kudos Tom,
Like how the rids are done!
Very nice! The build-part of this video is also highly appreciated!
yes you get a thumbs up. your videos are getting very good!
Cool, good job. I look at that and the first thing that pops into my head: "fragile". I know it's a 3D printing exercise but have thought about adding a really thin layer, or two, of fibreglass? Toughen it up considerably without a massive weight penalty. Could be too heavy I suppose, so ,double the size, give it two motors and the sky is yours!
Great job Tom... FPV version would be fantastic!!
Must print this when my Prusa arrives of ebay. This would be a good early project for me, I love r/c stuff and 3d printers are perfect for all kinda r/c models. Power pack should be cheap too, you can get a motor + esc of ebay for around £10 nowaday's, I already got a few 9g servo's so, it's like an r/c plane for £25. I bet they fly just as good as anything you can buy of shelf in model shop or online.
Glider folks who usually have to glue their servos in like to wrap them with masking tape before gluing them, that way they can still be removed. Also, you might want to make a couple vents to cool your ESC.
Just started printing this unfortunately had to cut some models in half or more to fit it on the build plate but gonna use some dowels to keep it together will let you know how it goes such a cool design
Great job, now I have a reason to finally get a 3D printer 👍🏻
Great work! I will definitely be printing this sometime late spring when I start flying again. Have you thought about releasing the CAD files as well and starting something like an Open Source Wing Project?
I'm not asking you to do so, it just come to my mind, because I love the 3D printing community and I'm sure people (haha maybe me too) would come up with some amazing little upgrades here and there. Thanks again for the great work and stl files :)
Great job, and a really nice design. Once I have a larger printer I'll have to give this a try.
Hi Tom. I like the way you do it. It Seems easy. Good job.
You can set the light momentary Switch on your Radio to "Throttle Override 0%". Then it's easy to keep the switch pushed with your right middle finger with throttle in the desired position. Just let the switch go, and the motor will spin up. No mouth involved anymore :-)
FPV version would be cool...love the Lil running launch....
I happened to have that exact motor laying around, so that's all the excuse I need to print and try this out. I'll update you with how it goes.
Guy, you awesome. Congratulations, and thanks for sharing this cool printing!!!
Thanks thanks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!
it flys really nice bud. Awesome.
How about ABS wing with acetone smoothening to improve skin strength?
Hi Tom -- great 3D build, almost done printing components. Will a 2200 kv brushless motor be adeguate or powerful enough for this build ? Thank You !!
awesome man im printing some planes now, this is on the list
Awesome, printing one as soon as possible, any cheaper version of the electronics?
good to see you got your left hand, mouth throttle launch technique down. unfortunately I don't have a printer.
could I ask you for a recommendation on a fpv camera and tx for fixed wing and where to get it from. I have some fatshark attitude V3 with the standard reciever. thanks
I'm very impressed. Well done!
Hey weird suggestion idea. maybe you could instead of printing the wings only print the inside pattern inside and a place for the servos. then instead pull some thin light plastic really tightly around the wings and glue it? or something but I thought that'd save it a lot of weight. the insides of the wing will shape it very well as far as I can guess. tho I'm sure those food plastic bags are way too fragile and thin for this. but something similar could work :)
This looks cool, as i don't know jack about RC stuff or a great deal about my 3d printer, i will give this ago.
nice one... for a lot of extra wing strength, try a covering of laminating film ironed on ..
Nice! Like. The design. Could you add winglets that go up and down on the wingtip? Would give you a bit more slip stability. And with enough power you could do a vertical start.
Also: what do you think about a carbon rod in each wing?
Hi Tom, i just finishing the 3d print on my own. What is the elevon trim set at for the test flight?
awesome thanks for your work
Since it's so easy to crank out wings, you should experiment with different surface textures! Dimples, raised, hexagons, icosahedral. You could also mess around with vortex generators.
Very Nice Project ! Super excited and just started printing.
Only got 1 weird thing... the "holes" in the bottom of the Fuselage are actually hole in 4 versions of the Cura Slicer and in the original stl fire they Aren't
Which slicer are you running ?
Could you try making a more conventional type plane with landing gear and the prop at the front?
Great project, thanks for sharing! I would love to use the printvolume of my printers wich is 300x300x400mm. Would it be possible to customize the stl files? I think it would be even stiffer. Pretty nice plane tough!
Well I printed one, and having no knowledge of RC planes or 3d printers it went well looked good flew 20feet and took a dirt nap. hahahahahaha am printing another one. I love the idea of it.
It would be great to have a smaller version, with a 2s battery and maybe a 180 dc motor. But great work!
Great job! It would be awesome if you had a tutorial on how you designed this!
Hey Tom - great work. Where the 200mm build volume needed, I was all sad as my printer only manages around 170x170 on the x/y but looking at silc3r it just seemed to fit in (presumably the inner wings are the biggest parts) You could do a very quick and dirty FPV with one of the "tiny Whoop" style camera/vtx's like the Eachine TX03 connected into the 5v reg
When printing the fuselage back section with the motor mount to the bed, it's 198.5mm high on the Z axis. Yes I will either modify the canopy for micro FPV gear or modify the nose section for a HS1177 camera! Thanks mate
This is sweet! Love how you managed to get the strength in your wings using regular PLA. @FliteTest should take a look at this!
ps - The sound of the jumbo overhead amuses me at the end :)
So ABS should work as well as long as the printer can handle it? :)
Sometimes the plane sounds like a big airliner! ;-)
Nice video, what about filling the airplane with expandable foam to give it more strength?
Have you thought about making an RC rocket boost glider? I think your design would be ideal to get the center of gravity far enough ahead of the center of pressure that it would work. I may try to model it on Rocksim and if it looks good I'll start printing. If I get it past tests I'll let you know. Very Nice job!
Very nifty! Have you tried any sort of post processing on the prints? I doubt it would be beneficial in any way besides aesthetics, but it would be interesting to compare.
Looks to be quite a nice starter plane. I don't have any experience with making one but I do want to make an RC plane this year. Eh, why you using your mouth on the controller for speed? Do you have to rev it up or can't you just go to full? Seems like you could 3d print something to hold it full then remove once plane is in the air.
Great video. Any chance you could make a short video showing how you designed the wing and which software you used? I've been trying to duplicate your results when it comes to splitting the wing into parts in order to have ribs inside the shell of the wing; however, I've had no success. I've been using 123d Design from Autodesk.
Wow, love your work! Thank you.
Hello
Printing your design today
Many thanks for free STL
We are allready printing it. Thanls bro.
Stanton do you think this would work well with the wing filled with builders foam? I'm thinking for added strength of using spars and builders foam so I can 6 cell it. any thoughts? thank you very much for sharing your design :-)
i actually liked the idea of fpv :) COOL JOB ! ...you got +1 suscribers :D
Hey Tom just wondering how much clean up work you had to do once the Prints came off the printer to make them look good
This is great! FPV would be cool.
Wouldn't be hard; just redo the battery cap to have a mini FPV cam/transmitter mount, like those off of an Inductrix/TinyWhoop quadcopter!
Hey this nice job thanks but what you do if you want to add some camera please
Any possibility you can provide info on how did you design the wing? What program and how did you set the ribs. Much appreciated.