Great instructional video. Professor Lori Prosise.
The Perfect RC Wife
3D Printed Aircraft Takes Flight
Springfield Ohio’s SelectTech in September of 2011 reports sucessful test flight of the worlds first privately funded 3D printed aircraft. Designed by Frank Beafore and Beth Galang, flown by Jade Lowrey at Springfields Beckley Municipal Airport. Aircraft is powered and guided by electronics from Radical RC. Powered by Himax brushless motor, Castle Creations ESC, and Kypom Lipo battery. The aircraft was manufactured on a Dimension 22 1200 ES Printer which works by fusing together strands of ABS plastic. The printer can make parts up to about 10″ long. The aircraft is an assembly of many sections. The wing panels are made with ribs, skin with a light cross hatch structure under the skin (a Radical RC suggestion) to allow the skin to be made thin and light weight. In each rib with each panel are premade holes to accept the carbon rod spars. Total printing time was about 5 days.
Generally the 3D printing process is used to make prototype parts to verify designs before making a hard tooling investment. However, SelectTech demonstrates that projects with complex mechanical requirements can be manufactured and put directly into service very quickly.
A story was published in the Dayton Daily News Business section on Nov. 13, 2011.
Cooper Smithing Co.
One aspect of our hobby I really enjoy is the interesting people I get to meet and converse with. There are tons of professionals, engineers and skilled craftsmen of varous sorts that touch into the RC hobby at one time or another. Many are not aware, but we supply goods into other disaplines. One of those is the custom bike building world.
Joe Cooper ording a new A123 4S2P writes: “These batteries have worked out so well for me, I have one on every bike I’ve built, here’s the latest in need of some power: www.coopersmithingco.com/pgunbaby.html
In 2010 Cooper Smithing took 2nd in Modified Harley Davidson in the AMD World Championships of Custom Bike Building. They don’t mess around at Cooper Smithing Co.
RCExplorer.se Excellent Discus Launch Vid
First Manned Multicopter Takes Flight!
Check it out, see if you can figure out the controller logic to make this safe as possible. A step beyon fly-by-wire for certain. Maybe with some aluminum, rivits and 4 quad boards you too could be seated above a blender. 😉
Dave
Jeb Corliss “Grinding The Crack”
These guys don’t usually make it too long, enjoy the glow while it’s there. The video is awesome.
Dave
Another Wright Stick Takes To The Skies
Jack Sheller writes: Finally got her going. CG just where you said. Flys great. Built a sled for takeoff.
Jack reports on paint used: Just cheap Ace Hardware “Touch ‘n tone” Antique white, # 55281830. I took a piece of canvas with me ant that matched the best.
Nice Job Jack!
RC Groups NanoScio2 Puts Up Husky Video
Fox Lite’s Husky on floats. Exactly what this model is about!
Video by: Scott Mosher
St. Paul, Minnesota
Virtual Tour Of USAFM
Thanks to Ken Eubanks for forwarding a fantastic link. Most RC’rs will make the journey to Dayton at least one time to vist the United States Airforce Museum. Maybe your at a great distance or life’s circumstances has kept you from visting as of yet. Here is something to toss in your bucket list.
National USAF Museum Virtual Tour
Fun With Taxi
This tickled me today. You might go a whole year and not see anything this funny on TV. Enjoy!