Decent Book on RC plane design

Started by ujjwaana, November 20, 2009, 02:21:43 PM

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ujjwaana

Even being a science grads, for flying I just know the basic Bernoulli theorem. I bought a book suggested in the forum and its nothing but waste of money (Rs 700  on mere 40 pages)

http://www.flipkart.com/fly-rc-tips-tricks-techniques/0981799515-7bx3frsucb/fly-rc-tips/1

I remember lending a real good book on Aeromodel scratch building from British Library, but I was very immature for these intrinsic details back in Class 6th then.

What I am looking for is some decent book on airframe design, written my modelers explaining basic theories and practical implication to kept in mind while designing from scratch in a plain language even non technical people may understand. some math is okay. To start with, I dont even know what should be the ratio of the surface area between wing, elevators and rudders!! with so many CAD tools, I can atleast shorten my design time, without wasting resources on building all the intermediate designs (may be just 1/5 of otherwise).

Any URL, recommendation, PDF or photocopies would highly appreciated!! the "Aeromodeling" itself is not in the English dictionary, google search return lot of crap!

TIA,
Ujjwal
Futaba 8FG Super | HK-450v2 | FA-22 Raptor |AXN Floater-Jet | FunJet | Black Horse Edge 540 | Amp Master 015 | 2.3M Big Brother

tg

Try the articles on the AMA site http://www.masportaviator.com. This is a good site albeit with older articles. What the heck we are learning anyway. Good step-by-step articles in detail on how to assemble a trainer. Search around and you will surely see a lot of build howto articles. Another good site is www.airfieldmodels.com

allthatido

Andy lennon's Basics of RC Aircraft would have been a good option for you.

PankajC

Spektrum DX6i | EP Pusher Trainer | EP CUB |

ujjwaana

Thanks to every one for the information !! This would do for the while. I would be doing more Google would share my info. What about a separate sticky on books/magazines ?

-uJ
Futaba 8FG Super | HK-450v2 | FA-22 Raptor |AXN Floater-Jet | FunJet | Black Horse Edge 540 | Amp Master 015 | 2.3M Big Brother

flyingboxcar

#5
Try the sites, Traplet Publications  www.traplet.com and www.modelflying.co.uk from UK. Model Aeroplane news site (thier online shop section) these have good selection of books on various topics of interest to us modellers.
If you are looking for sport scale type then Gordon Whitehead's "Scale Aircraft models for everyday flying" is the bible.This is out of print now and does turn up on ebay and other places. So you need to keep your eyes peeled  
If you are really into scale you should be here. www.rcscalebuilder.com