I have had a few very satisfying flights with Depron Plane Built by my friend from Lithuania, Retyras of . 

In my last post I shared the 90cm span foamie, now I share with you.....

CHAK-DAY-INDIA..... This is much faster and heavier plane...and a bit bigger.

Lipos 1050// 3cell.

Here is the maiden flight video shot at 9PM Uk time;

   

Nice..Hope Indian flag flown high in uk..

Off Course..... JAI HIND, ALWAYS

Deepak Sir,
Its indeed a really great looking plane!! Looks close to Big Nasty built by Ashta sir.
Is the plan avail be on some forum? Is there a build thread where he has let the secret of its build details out ?

Hi Ujjwaana,
This plane is built by this Lithuanian guy who is a professional builder. The plans must be available somewhere on the net. He says its his own design and he sells them to models shops and individuals fom £35 upwards for basic kit and around £60 for this size model excluding the radio gear and other bits.

I paid just under £50 for this, all electrics are mine and £35 for the smaller version again without any electrics.

The only secret is the strength of fuselage. The fus is very strong and I think it could be stronger still if an added 6 to 9inch long Depron sheet is stuck from the first wing support rod to the nose area on two sides, thus doubling the front sides to take heavy landings.

Fuselage made of Biofoam (Depron sheet 3mm or 6mm thick) strengthened inside with SCRIM TAPE ( plasterboard joining glassfibre tape stuck to Depron at back with Fevicol type PVA wood glue).

You will get most bits from RCforall Sai.
BTW the motor in it was bought from SAI.


All control surfaces are bamboo bar b q skewers joined to fine piano wire Z bended at ends (joining material is scotch tape or heatshrink and cyano)and wing is made of normal THERMOCOL strengthened with 5mm wide 2mm thick carbon flats at top (aprox 70cm) and bottom (70cm). Covered with CLEAR coloured packaging tape.

Excellent very light aerobatic plane.

Tail plane is strengthened with Bamboo skewers.
Fin has two cocktail sticks as supports.
The whole plane is glued by PVA wood glue with a dab of hot melt glue here and there. Servos glued with PVA (Fevicol type glue) and a dab of hotmelt glue.

All controls are home made, horns out of PVC electric trunking, aeleron rods are bicycle spokes flattened by hammering and a hole drilled at flat surface to accept plastic clevis.

I would call this a true homemade plane made on a budget.

Its worth an attempt if you can get plans from someone.
Deepak

Here is another video made on Sunday 27th June....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tp_aeAtnpA&feature=player_embedded   


Happy Independance Day.... Belated