My new indoor foamy bipe

[HuckinChikn]

Hey dudes, I'm back with another foamy build thread... This time i wanted to try my brain at a biplane. I've never scratch-built a foam Bipe before. So i knew this would be interesting!
I found these plans online several months ago, but I just now got around to getting them printed out and blown up. I'm not sure who drew the origional plans, but they
needed alot of work....There were ALOT of crooked lines, and i had to totally
re-draw the horizontal stab, elevator, and wing struts. I think it will all be worth it,
this thing is SWEET!
Here are a few pics of the fresh-cut foam before paint...

[HuckinChikn]

I have a thing for flames, so I thought I would go with some color fadeing flames on this little dude...

[HuckinChikn]

Starting assembly! Horizontal fuse sections glued in place, lower wing attatched along with all 4(!!) of the wing struts. Next will be the top wing and the horizontal
stabilizer.

[BubbaGump]

I think you are going to run into the same problem I had. Too much side area. My would need opposite rudder then normal. But your bipe does look good.

[BubbaGump]

I know what the plane is. The diecpher, it was posted on here last year i think. I know what you mean on the crooked line because he also did a click like plane and i opened open it up in cad and it was a mess.

[Edge 540]

If you do find that it has too much side area for you liking you can put strategically placed holes in the struts. Its not a bad thing, I just really didnt like the completely neutral on all axis "tensor" feel.

[Matchless]

Jared, I only met you briefly, but I never thought of you as flaming.... LOL

Nice paint job!

[HuckinChikn]

HAAHAAA...you too funny!:aa::9a::homo:

Yeah this thing is going to be retarded at knife edge...I'm going to have to use OPOSITE rudder! lol

[chrisbchips]

Hey guys, this looks like one of my designs from last year. Sorry about the crooked lines it was just something I did for myself then decided to share with everyone else. My drafting skills obviously aren't quite up to scratch yet Oh well keep practicing! This was my first bipe version and I only made one and was quite happy with the result but then tried to make a good thing better with the next version but it wasnt any good (If it ait broke don't fix it!). So let me know what you think of it as i didn't get much of a chance to fly the original one.

Chris B.

[rcpilot82]

chris b. do you still have the cad files?? I could clean em up for ya no problem. I am using acad 2005 (been doing that for over 10 years) and mastercam x2 if your intrested let me know. So far it looks like a plane I would like to build! good job huckin!

[chrisbchips]

Sure thing, send me a private message with your email and I'll send you the .dxf or .dwg files.

Chris B.

[rcpilot82]

pm sent! Thanks!

[HuckinChikn]

its all good bro! I'm just excited to get this bad boy off the ground. This thing
is gonna be sweeeet. Airframe is finished, just gotta string the spider wire bracing
and start installing electronics. sitting right at 3oz right now. Not bad for a 34in biplane! this thing is biiiiig!

[rcpilot82]

huckin, you said in the original post that you enlarged the plans? what %% did u scale at? it looks sweet! How much flex is there in the airframe without any bracing?

[HuckinChikn]

Well, im not really sure...It started as a file on my computer, I e-mailed it to my buddy, and I told him i wanted the wingspan to be about 34in. Well when he printed it, it came out with a 30in wing, so basicly i took my straight edge and pencil and kind of traced the whole plane outside of the origional lines. I made some areas larger, and some areas just a little bigger. It turned out pretty good i think.
With no bracing, there is quite a bit of flex in the airframe. Im just going to string
the crap out of it with the braided spiderwire and see what i come up with
Hope to get some stringing done tonight...