resoldered a faulty servo and built the wings
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I have been working on this project before I joined hackclub, so here is some background info on my plane.
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I designed this plane on fusion 360, it took probably at least 60ish hours including all the tests and iterations, but I don’t know how to upload that so that 60 hours down the drain. This is the 7th iteration after doing countless tests on cfd.
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My initial goal was 100kph, but I decided to go even bigger after doing cfd testing (that took absolutely ages on my laptop). I designed the wings to be printed in spiral vase mode which was also a pain cuz the slicer just kept putting holes in my wing which is super annoying. There are still some jagged edges on the trailing edge, but I have given up with trying to fix that. The fixed model to hair loss ratio was just not worth it.
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The tail was designed to have built in hinges which worked surprisingly well with just PLA. they just need a bit of a wiggle and they worked fine (slightly stiff but still usable).
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I printed the whole plane in LW PLA and the wing root plus the tail in normal PLA for a bit more strength, but looking at it; I think the wing root would work just fine in LW PLA and that would save another 10 grams.
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The motor I am using right now is not great for the purpose of this aircraft, because it is designed for efficiency, but it is the only one I have lying around right now. I will swap it out with something more suitable for this aircraft in the future when further developing this plane.