This is from the same dude who made the Knex 787 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQsnrvlWJpA
I made a K'nex MD 80, a much more realistic one than my K'nex 787. This time, the cross section is more accurate, and it is more of a tube. It is more circular appearing, and it is more structurally sound, and I hope to make some great crashes. I would make a full instructable, but I need to reproduce the making of the wings, the landing gear (Unretractable, and the back 2 are just giant wheels. Purely for support, not form). It has seats too, based roughly on real MD80 seating arrangements. It holds... 136 (Including crew), 3 short of the max capacity of 139. I created seats and floors. My future plans will hopefully include stick figure people, and maybe a steward cart for the stereotypical "OMG A CART" scenes in movies. Hopefully, a full instructable will come this way, but since Instructables only allows full ones, I'll include the basic fuselage construction. If you have this much K'nex, you need a lot, you probably should be smart enough to modify this for your other designs. I plan to use this design for future planes, since it seems it would be usable on many of the smaller planes.
I made a K'nex MD 80, a much more realistic one than my K'nex 787. This time, the cross section is more accurate, and it is more of a tube. It is more circular appearing, and it is more structurally sound, and I hope to make some great crashes. I would make a full instructable, but I need to reproduce the making of the wings, the landing gear (Unretractable, and the back 2 are just giant wheels. Purely for support, not form). It has seats too, based roughly on real MD80 seating arrangements. It holds... 136 (Including crew), 3 short of the max capacity of 139. I created seats and floors. My future plans will hopefully include stick figure people, and maybe a steward cart for the stereotypical "OMG A CART" scenes in movies. Hopefully, a full instructable will come this way, but since Instructables only allows full ones, I'll include the basic fuselage construction. If you have this much K'nex, you need a lot, you probably should be smart enough to modify this for your other designs. I plan to use this design for future planes, since it seems it would be usable on many of the smaller planes.
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