My RC Stratojet Merlin

tankball · Apr 21, 2012

alright so i've been fly this plane in FSX for over 2-3 years now and now i want to make it into a RC plane and here what i looks like

Here my first 2 i make to see if a biger one will fly and they both seem to fly very good.

The brown one flys and best and i like it

i think monday i'll have some new pic cuz the hobby store is closed sunday. im going to be making this into a foamy

tankball · Apr 21, 2012

srry guys i forget to add the blueprints i made for this RC

Pack hunter · Apr 22, 2012

i thought you meant one of these

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&h...04&start=18&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:18,i:116

tankball · Apr 22, 2012

alright just finshed my powerd one and this is how big im planing to make it

the one thang that throws me off is how the up and down work.
when i want to go up the elly will be like this

when i want her to go down the elly will be like this

tankball · Apr 22, 2012

and heres a video

xWarningEmp · Apr 22, 2012

The plane reminds me of the ones that I saw in an anime titled Sky Crawlers

ACDCrockr209 · Apr 22, 2012

Why don't you move the front flaps from the front to the back? With a design like that has never been built, you might as well modify it so that it can fly in real life, but still keep it's shape.

tankball · Apr 22, 2012

from all the testing i've been doing it seems to fly very will. but if i have to move them i will. im hoping to send it of to Banana Hobby and see what they can do with it. not for the $$$ just cuz i want to see a 3D one fly

ZoidianKings · Apr 22, 2012

The best way to get the horizontal stabilizers to work the best and not weigh the plane down would be to go and buy the micro-servos.

tankball · Apr 22, 2012

ZoidianKings said:
The best way to get the horizontal stabilizers to work the best and not weigh the plane down would be to go and buy the micro-servos.

yes i know and i am planing to use micro-servos on this one. im hope to make it under $100

ZoidianKings · Apr 22, 2012

You can make a plane for a lot cheaper than 100. I have seen people make some on youtube for around $25-30.

That is probably without the controller, and I really have no clue how much that would cost.

Spitfire22V · Apr 22, 2012

ACDCrockr209 said:
Why don't you move the front flaps from the front to the back? With a design like that has never been built, you might as well modify it so that it can fly in real life, but still keep it's shape.

These designs exist in full-scale planes, and quite a few have been successfully built. They're even generally considered to be more stable that conventional planes, and more difficult to stall + spin.

Tankball, the elevator movement is "backwards" because the horizontal stabilizer is in front of the center-of-gravity. On a conventional plane with the tail in the back, the elevator going up will induce a downward moment on the tail, causing the nose to pitch up, and the plane to climb. With the horizontal stab in the front, "up" elevator will cause that same down force, but now it's acting on the nose, not the tail, causing the plane to dive. It's completely normal, and just one of the effects of a canard design.

I've made several entire RC planes out of one piece of $1 Dollar Tree foamboard. They're quite fun to fly since there's no stress of crashing it because so little is invested in it.