The plane looks good. But I imagine it stalls too abruptly because of the wing tip design. There's another video where the flyer mentions this about the plane.
If you are doing destruction testing, how about seeing if you can over stress it in the air before you crash it into the ground? Will it handle high speed loops, hard pull outs, snap rolls, etc.? It would be nice to know how much this printed aircraft can take. Also, what did you print it out of? Have you tried PLA+ ?
the wing has 6mm O/D carbon rods inside, so I think it can take enough G forces to let you have fun in the air. the Fuselage has also 1mm carbon rods inside but they are mandatory on the LW-PLA Version and optional on the PLA. the only weak spot that i see is the tail Area. I dont recall that they have and carbon reinforcing there.
Thank you for this. Such a beautiful craft, unfortunately Eclipson no longer offers the plans for sale. I would love to build one.
The plane looks good. But I imagine it stalls too abruptly because of the wing tip design. There's another video where the flyer mentions this about the plane.
If you are doing destruction testing, how about seeing if you can over stress it in the air before you crash it into the ground? Will it handle high speed loops, hard pull outs, snap rolls, etc.? It would be nice to know how much this printed aircraft can take. Also, what did you print it out of? Have you tried PLA+ ?
the wing has 6mm O/D carbon rods inside, so I think it can take enough G forces to let you have fun in the air. the Fuselage has also 1mm carbon rods inside but they are mandatory on the LW-PLA Version and optional on the PLA. the only weak spot that i see is the tail Area. I dont recall that they have and carbon reinforcing there.
they have a nice design but they dont have the wings in the stl files...
they are in thingiverse other wise.
PLA or LW-PLA?
LW