Heres my 2nd version of my monowing design. This one is milled, and I am hoping to have this one 4.25 oz or less. Just finished milling the plane. Hopefully will have it done by this Saturday night, so I can maiden her at the dome. Heres a pic . . .

EDIT:

Airframe finished, weight as she sits is 1.65 oz. Old one was 2.15 oz at this point. Total loss of 1/2 oz by milling and using smaller carbon on the tail.

Seth

3D-Seth

Some of you may have seen the video I posted yesterday of my new F3P plane, if not, here is a link to the video and my setup.

Eflite Park 250
Castle Creations Phoenix 10 ESC
Spektrum Nanolite Rx
Thunder Power 2 Cell 350 mah batteries
JR 185 for Ailerons
GWS Pico for Elevator
Eflite S60 for Rudder (will be changed to GWS Pico when I get more)

Pull-Pull on rudder/elevator.

AUW W/Battery is 4.7 oz

There are a good bit of things I could do to reduce it more, and could probably get it to 4.5 oz or less with...

3D-Seth

Flew my third prototype of my design today. Didnt get to fly it indoors, but will hopefully be able to tomorrow night at the golf dome in Columbus (I think the fly-in is tomorrow night - correct me if I'm wrong).

Was light winds 1-2 mph and everything went well. This one weighs in at 5.75 oz with the battery (a little disappointing, but weight could've been saved more in certain places). This one had its CG further back than the others as well.

Flew super slow and had some small coupling. Rolls are crisp and stop when you want them too. Snaps are snappy...

3D-Seth

Hey guys,
I have the airframe finished, and motor, ESC, aileron servo and rudder servo installed of my third prototype of my own design. First design was a little large for my liking, so I scaled it down to a smaller version, with a few little tweaks such as larger ailerons (to scale). That one seemed a bit small, and the wings somehow got warped. The small one was a tad heavier than what I really wanted too.

Needless to say, I am on my third version which has an inch bigger wingspan, 1 1/2" longer fuse, wing chord is same, as well as distance between the wings. Also used carbon...

3D-Seth

Many may have seen my "My First Design" blog post, and see that I came in overweight and over sized for my design. Plans have changed as for electronic set-up for that one (See "My First Design . . . Updates 3).

My "Second" Design is just a scaled down version of my First.

Changes:

28" Span
30" Fuse
Thread for strutting in wings rather than Carbon.

Set-up for it is what my origional plans were for my design:

Hacker A10 9L
Castle Creations Phoenix 10 ESC
Dymond D47s on Rudder/Elevator
Futaba 3154...

3D-Seth