Good stuff man!
Magnets are so much better than pins. I'm gonna have to start building balsa planes again...

 

Shaun.

Two words.

Balsa Speedy.

 

:mrgreen: I agree! Go for it Shaun!

 

Too funny...
Look at what I've been working on. I still have a ways to go though.

.....Balsa Speedy.....
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:mrgreen: Cool!
Mark and Trish

 

Ha! My Force Powers are strong. It is the future I see!

Brilliant Shaun. If you need a west coast beta-builder, hook me up!

 

Heres a few micro (not UM) sized common parts I've been working with in my plans. They are for part fits, not aesthetics so they're short on details. Hopefully this will be helpful to some.
[list type=decimal][*]Hobby City 18-11 2000kv 10gr
Hobby City C1818 Micro Brushless Outrunner 3500kv 9gr
4.7gr servos
3.7gr servos
Radical RC Biased Control Horn
GWS Generic Prop (I didnt make this, not sure who original author is)
Rhino 2S 360[/list type=decimal]
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Oh yeah!
Looks sweet Toxic
Mark and Trish
P.S. can we see the milled side?

 

More to come. Should be done in a few days!

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Incredible job! this is going to be a beauty for sure
Thank you for posting the pocketed side Toxic I love the way you did your logos
Mark and Trish

 

Thanks Kram and Thunder Hawk!

Soon as I finish tweaking this design, I plan to release it for Phlatclub "vip" only, if M/T will set it up. I don't want it out in the full wild but I'd like to make it available exclusively for the Phlatheads for free.

The prototype flew absolutely great and exceeded my expectations by far. But there were a multitude of changes I wanted to make and it really needs to be lighter. Hovers, harriers and lots of great snap character. A bit pattern/3d hybrid. It flew like a bigger plane, not twitchy or too fast like the commercial UM designs out there.

The HK 10gr motor is great but it peaks at about 120gr thrust. The proto came out to just around 90 with battery. This one should hit no more than 80gr. Pull pull is a little harder to build for but it is shaving some weight off. My next one I plan to do away with the carbon spar and see how well I can get it to stay stiff in the air.

Thanks for the interest and support!

 

I'll be honest with you, Si, I have a 3rd party tool I use to generate all pocket paths. I still do all the work in SKUP/Adobe Illustrator, save the pocketing shapes as dxfs and then use Enroute to generate the paths. This gets saved out as a dxf and then re-imported back into sketchup. I then use all the phlat tools to code the paths using the center line tool. No cleanup other than aligning the re-imported parts back on to the right parts of the model. Its actually pretty fast, and I can go from skup->enroute->skup in a few minutes.

I've mentioned it to John and others, if you need paths, send me your skup files. I don't need your whole model, only the parts you need pockets for and info on what bit size. PM me for details.

 

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No it worked, but like firetrappe, I had to do a lot of clean up work and if I remember right, it choked on complex shapes like my logo work. The way I do it is one step close to painless. The enroute tools are very mature in this regard as it is designed around cnc signage and woodworking. Thats all.

 

No probs, Si! Its a meandering thread by design and I'm fine with that! Yes, PM me if you need some quick pathing. I suspect I can turn it around the same day if everything goes smooth!

 

Good stuff Toast!

 

Final wave of these (until I can get some video).

80gr all up weight with new Hyperions 150 2S. Flew great, despite outdoors in 4-6mph winds. Looking forward to those no-wind evenings we get frequently. Nice and slow, I suspect the drag plates are helping a bit as it had a noticeably more pattern like flight over the prototype. Had to dial the controls down just a bit on the low rates. Hover was sustainable but punch out is weak (~120gr thrust). Need to play with the prop choice a bit. Required virtually no trim to fly nicely.This plane is definitely a keeper!


Pull pull system is fairly unique (I think), saves a fair bit of weight over the rod version and was surprisingly easier to build at this scale than I had thought it would be. A single length of kevlar thread controls each surface and is tacked to the horns with UHU-POR. The thread runs from carbon leads at the servo to the horn and then through a pin hole in the foam. Tiny pieces of tape help it stick to the foam horns. It then runs back to the other side of the servo. This was easy to set up and the controls felt very crisp on the flight.

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I like the way you did your pull pull system, horns, and servo arms. I might borrow those .

That plane is gonna be awesome with no wind for sure.

 

OK, one more for the road. Added a custom drawn canopy decal for the smooth side.

Thanks to the Phlatboys for suggestions on a great way to make decals-Avery 18665! Attached files

 

Man, I gotta get some micro gear. It looks great TT!