Archive for 'How-To’s' Category
Wanna go for a fling?
Just go the Great planes fling in the mail. I am looking to see what the best way to get it setup and ready to go. I have servos on order for it as well and soon hope to have the fling ready to go as my daily flier for while I am on break at work. If you have any ideas for setup please let me know, oh and I am going to start posting my materials on the fling build and the ROV build more often.
Update. 3-19-10
Was looking through the manual and noticed that the tail is controlled by string, and as I have never built a plane that used string for moving the control surfaces I am a little weary of using some. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Request tutorials
have been working on the tutorials, but could really use your help! Please let me know with your comments on how I can assist making the tutorials better for you to use and what you would like to learn for using the site?
Glen’s new project
Important Update, I would like to thank every one who has been helping and the list is growing for names on the plane. I have been asked to where some one would send a financial donation. I greatly appreciate the offer, donations I was thinking of were Ideas and tips and maybe a little hardware for the experiment. Again thank you for your generous offers, instead please use those resources for something more worth while, there are many disaster relief funds and the cure for cancer. Thank you all again for your support.
I am writing this post to let every one know that I am going to be starting a project that will involve a possible full design of a plane that will be able to be used almost like a UAV. That means an Unmanned Areal Vehicle, now I know what you may say “Glen, people have done a UAV already!” Well yes that is true, but I am not one of them. More info below
Update Sept 29th 2009—-
I have figured out what I have for an inventory of parts and so far so good.
Will be posting detailed specs soon.
Update Dec 13th 2009—-
I have been extremely busy with work and have not had a lot of time to make much headway on the project. I am going to be posting a lot of information over then next few days as I have a little bit of time that I have devoted to just the project. Also I am planning on making a video soon to update and show some of the parts that are avail. May just make a list with pictures not sure yet.
Thank you every one that has sent Ideas!
The Plane of choice is the Miss 2 donated by Dave Smith.
| Quantity | Part |
| 1 | HS-65MG servo |
| 2 | HS-125MG servo |
| 1 | 30amp Pro SB brushless ESC (eflight) |
| 1 | 10 Amp peak power stepdown |
| 3 | DS821 JR servo |
| 2 | Parkzone PKZ1081 SV80 |
| 2 | Parkzone DSV130M servo |
| 1 | Flycam 1 |
| 1 | Common sense RC 2000mAh battery
15c 2 cell |
| 1 | Common sense RC 2000mAh 2cell 8C Battery |
| 1 | Parkzone PKZ1031 1800mAh 3cell 15c battery |
Update 1-1-10
Wow typing ^ was odd! Happy new years all!
I have some sad news, I am having to postpone this project for financial reasons as money has become a lot tighter and buying an parts at this time is impossible. I am hoping to do some more work in the near future on the project but at the current time I am going to focus on some collecting ideas and such. Will post the ideas and may even make some drawings.
Update 3-9-10
Here is just a little video update.
How-To : Using the site.
New how to coming soon.
Tuff Planes P-51
Hello every one! My name is Glen and I will give you a little back ground on my super fast. I am currently working for a big company that serves other large companies. I am kinda new to the club, as I have only been in it about a year this summer but during the time I have been in the club much has been learned and we even started this site!
Now to get down to business, as it says in the title I have been working on getting my Tuff planes EPP slope glider. It has a 60 inch wing span and is made out of, you guessed it FOAM!!
As you can see it does look a little off from the real deal, but that is due to the fact that the real plane would not be able to stay up in the air with the style wings that it had. This plane is my first attempt at building an EPP slope glider and i am hoping to make it look nice. we shall see.
Price is about $100 for the plane it self, then you can decide what parts you want to do from there, I suggest that since this plane is going to have some stress and have lots of rough landings that you go ahead and get some metal gear servos. The kit does not normally come with the radio, receiver, servos and batteries. So that is going to be an added cost. More on that later.
There is more to come so keep an eye out for updates!
Update!!!!
Sorry for not making any recent updates about this project, but I am keeping track and will start updating soon.