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Radio controlled Bi-Plane

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:28 pm
by Mark Oostveen
OK, after seeing these nice project I will post mine as well.

About 6 years ago, after my first son was born I started the drawing for a Full aerobatic RC Bi-Plane. It is a 35% scale model of a Pitts M12, which results in a plane with a wingspann of 2.4m a length of 2.4m and a total weight of 13Kg

There are two of these planes acually build. One powered by a 8.5Kw electric motor and one powered by a 110cc twin cilinder petrol engine.
The Origional
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Creation of a Shell
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The internal construction
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After creation of the nesting and a CAM file I used a milling machine to machine the plywood parts
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The result after a "few" hours of building (right = electric version = mine)
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Some flying can be seen here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNFm21pUkx0

More pictures of the real construction during the build
https://picasaweb.google.com/1085192895 ... tsModel12#

Regards

Mark

Re: Radio controlled Bi-Plane

Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2014 6:15 am
by JuP
perfect job !

Re: Radio controlled Bi-Plane

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:16 am
by Mark Oostveen
Tnx. The next one is on the drawing board

Re: Radio controlled Bi-Plane

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:21 am
by jacs
Amazing work, congratulations!

What king of milling machine did you use to cut the plywood parts and what kind of plywood is it?

Re: Radio controlled Bi-Plane

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 10:10 am
by Mark Oostveen
A home build router 1200x2500mm controlled by a Atos controller.
The materials used are
- roofmate for the wing ribs.
- poly styrene for vertical and horizontal stabilizer
- pine for the beams in the wing and fuselage
- balsa as sheets to cover the constructions 1.5 and 2mm
- and the plywood is a light weight one. In holland it is called populieren if I am correct it is populus 3-ply

Re: Radio controlled Bi-Plane

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 10:30 pm
by Robert
Cool!