FlyingWing1
Name: FlyingWing1
Date: July 2010
Material: Signboard (looks like plastic cardboard)
Airfoil: Symmetric airfoil (no specific design since I found it difficult to bend the signboard into anything but a symmetric airfoil)
Comments:
In the summer of 2010, I began thinking of designing and building my own radio controlled airplanes. I decided to make a flying wing because it looked really easy - it's just a wing with two control surfaces, how hard can it be? This was before I started studying stability and control in university...
I chose signboard as the construction material because I had seen someone at the flying field who had used this material and his plane was very durable. However, this material choice was one of the reasons FlyingWing1 was too heavy. I also installed a landing gear to save the prop (this was before I discovered prop savers).
The maiden flight was the only flight. After a hard hand launch, it hovered in the wind for about 10 seconds before I brought it in for a landing. I realized I needed to conduct an extensive literature review of how to design and build flying wings properly.
...There are no designs shown here because there were no designs...
Date: July 2010
Material: Signboard (looks like plastic cardboard)
Airfoil: Symmetric airfoil (no specific design since I found it difficult to bend the signboard into anything but a symmetric airfoil)
Comments:
In the summer of 2010, I began thinking of designing and building my own radio controlled airplanes. I decided to make a flying wing because it looked really easy - it's just a wing with two control surfaces, how hard can it be? This was before I started studying stability and control in university...
I chose signboard as the construction material because I had seen someone at the flying field who had used this material and his plane was very durable. However, this material choice was one of the reasons FlyingWing1 was too heavy. I also installed a landing gear to save the prop (this was before I discovered prop savers).
The maiden flight was the only flight. After a hard hand launch, it hovered in the wind for about 10 seconds before I brought it in for a landing. I realized I needed to conduct an extensive literature review of how to design and build flying wings properly.
...There are no designs shown here because there were no designs...