Some of the guys at the local RC club (Brindlee Mountain RC Club) and other clubs around the North Alabama area have designed a plane for full contact combat flying. The whole object is to bump/crash into the other guy(s) and have their plane hit the ground before yours does.
The current Warp has evolved from a design created by another "Don" who goes by the name of "Miderror" on the RC Groups forum thread "Don's Blue Plate Special" which is dedicated to these and other style combat planes. There is a video (20 megs) here showing the action between 2 Warps and 4 other kinds of planes!
The plane is made of 1/4" blue insulation foam available at any of the larger home improvement stores. This foam is inexpensive, easy to repair with hot glue and can take a lot of punishment. The Warp pictured below has been repaired many times but still flies beautifully!
One thing to ALWAYS remember, the tail fin is on the BOTTOM when the plane is flying normally, it looks like it's flying upside down. When you launch the plane, make sure you don't have the fin up and pull back on the elevator thinking it's going to go UP! It won't! I know this from experience. The picture below is really of the BOTTOM of the plane.
This Instructable is intended for people that are familiar with building and flying RC planes.
The current Warp has evolved from a design created by another "Don" who goes by the name of "Miderror" on the RC Groups forum thread "Don's Blue Plate Special" which is dedicated to these and other style combat planes. There is a video (20 megs) here showing the action between 2 Warps and 4 other kinds of planes!
The plane is made of 1/4" blue insulation foam available at any of the larger home improvement stores. This foam is inexpensive, easy to repair with hot glue and can take a lot of punishment. The Warp pictured below has been repaired many times but still flies beautifully!
One thing to ALWAYS remember, the tail fin is on the BOTTOM when the plane is flying normally, it looks like it's flying upside down. When you launch the plane, make sure you don't have the fin up and pull back on the elevator thinking it's going to go UP! It won't! I know this from experience. The picture below is really of the BOTTOM of the plane.
This Instructable is intended for people that are familiar with building and flying RC planes.
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Signing UpStep 1: Gather together what you need for the airframe.
You'll need a sheet of 1/4" blue foam, marker, ruler, Xacto or similar knife, soldering iron and solder, hot-melt glue gun and glue, and fiberglass packing tape. The schematics included are really just guidelines, they're for the Warp that I'm currently flying. You can round corners, change angles, and change any dimension you like, but keep in mind that any changes you make, you'll be changing how the plane flies.
Mark out the lines and cut out the pieces. If you're careful, you can get two complete Warps from one sheet of foam.
In the plans, all dimensions are in inches.
Mark out the lines and cut out the pieces. If you're careful, you can get two complete Warps from one sheet of foam.
In the plans, all dimensions are in inches.
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Is it possible for you to do a pdf export from autocad with the aircraft to scale? had a really hard time tracing this out using a projector at a local maker space onto depron foam gaffa taped to a rolling garage door.
It's been on the back burner since Dec last year and decided to go all in and just tape basic electronics with no control surfaces. Flew quite well into the ground (expected as it has no control surfaces). Hence its first repair.
With depron you REALLY have to make sure you got that bit of plastic the OP has on his (I am using 0.5mm plastic sheeting, quite heavy stuff but was the most ridged i could get) to stop the motor ripping the crap out of the foam.
Photo shown is me adhering the left elevon to the main body, pieces of plastic on the elevons is to provide a good solid point to adhere the linkage to the elevon
Using foam safe "super glue" which is strangely odderless, seems to stick other stuff to foam better then unprepped foam to foam, to stick foam to foam you have to sand the ends and then make sure you remove all the dust otherwise the glue won't go off properly and leaves you with a dodgy join.
Used depron foam instead of insulation because of what is available in Australia. Depron works quite well but needs reinforcing because it is not as ridged (in the photo you can see one of the two parallel foam reinforcing "bars" that run the length of the aircraft)
Please join my group, this is the first true good Rc anything iv seen on instructables by the way im gona add the instructable to my new group if u dont mind
I'll look forward to "stubby"
P.S welcome to instructables
second question could i use a nitro engine instead of electric in theory
Thanks for the reply I have made the body and I'm going to mount the engine tommorow I will let everyone know how I get on