Thursday, October 7, 2010

How to make RC Planes

Making RC planes is really easy and fun to do. As the previous post to make a RC plane you need many different electronic parts. the parts are motor, speed control, receiver, transmitter, battery, and servos. All these parts come in different types so please see my other post for more info. the first part is making a blue print of the plane. you want to have a very aerodynamic plane but try to make it as light as possible.
After you have a blue print you want to decide what type of plane you want, a foam plane or a balsa plane. it is better to make a foam plane because it is more flexible and durable. EPO foam works best because it is light and cheap. The next step is tracing out the design on the foam, cutting parts out and gluing them together with 5 minutes epoxy.
After you have the skull made you want find a place on the front or the back of the plane to mount the motor. The motor should be tilted a little bit to the right and down because the prop will spin left and get the momentum going to the left as well.then you should place the speed control close to motor because the are going to get connected further in the process. Next you should mount the receiver close to a place easily accessible by you. Also you need servos to move control surfaces. Servos should be placed in the middle of the plane but not a must be. Then you need to hook the servos with the control surfaces using servo rods aka push rods.Last step is to mount a batter. Before you do that you want to find the center of gravity of the plane and make the plane a little bit nose heavy.
I will explain in the next post on how to hook all the wires in the plane to  make it work. please become follower. Thanks

1 comment:

  1. Nice post, quite informative and useful. If you are planning on building your own RC Plane, then you need to gather as much information as possible. You can also check out this tutorial that will help you pretty much, especially if you are new to this hobby. Check it out here: http://mydronelab.com/blog/how-to-make-an-rc-plane.html

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