Hello everyone,

I had the Tx-Rx of a 3 channel IR heli lying with me from last six months and finally, last week i decided to build an airframe for it. The original idea was to use the motor and prop combo from the heli for a free flight electric plane but finally it came out to be a single channel IR controlled plane.(I am still working on an actuator for the rudder)

The airframe selected is Hangar Rat, just because I had read a lot about its stability and ease of flying on RCG. The original plan was enlarged to 109% because I already had a Spruce stick lying with me which i intend to use as the fuselage so the entire plane was enlarged according to it.
Following are the specifications:-
Fuse Length: 380mm
Chord:          95.92mm
Wing Span:    512.44mm
Aspect Ratio: 5.34:1
Dihedral:        30mm on each tip
Covering Material: cellophane sheet

rest all is self explained from the following pics.......feel free to ask questions

completed airframe.......material used is Indian balsa glued with industrial grade cyno and fevicol. I have used cellophane sheet for covering. It is simply glued to the airframe with fevicol and later on shrunk using electric iron on 'silk' setting

 

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now have a look on the maiden......the plane was extremely stable(more than what i expected) and flew in 35-40 feet circles

Very nice built bilal. Looks equally beautiful in photographs. 
Actually when you came up with the plans, i didnt expected it to fly that good..
Was a nice flying session as well 

it wasn't your fault bhaiya......even i did't expect it to fly the way it did.....all i can say is, sometimes the unexpected happens

That is seriously cool ...  I hope this influences some of the coro and foam
brigade. Aeromodelling is so much easier if balsa is used with traditional
Construction

Amazing Build Very creative!!

thank you Saikat sir.....In fact I too wasted considerable time trying to work with foam, coro, thermocol and other stuff.....but once you work with balsa, its impossible to turn to something else

WOW  billal u really have art of building........

Quote from: saikat on September 24, 2012, 05:44:12 AM
That is seriously cool ...  I hope this influences some of the coro and foam brigade. Aeromodelling is so much easier if balsa is used with traditional Construction

totally agree...!! I am tired explaining this to ppl.....

Marvelous 

Very impressive! Seems like we have a resurrection of good old fashioned aeromodelling on its way. 

This is beautiful, which battery did you use on this?

I missed this very clean build. Building with balsa is definitely easy and bilal what size balsa sheet have you used.

Sahil

Thank for bumping this Sahil. Enjoyed the video once again. Marvelous build. 

actually it was arindamt who bumped it 

wow very nice build........

Great !!!!

Beautiful

Very nice build, bilal.