As part of our Eco-week I built a 2.2 metre cardboard motor glider
It's loosely based on John Beer's Zeitgeist (my favourite with reeds / propo) since the mid 70s...
It flies pretty well - but the motor had to go on an aluminium extension to get the CG somewhere sensible
I can see now why the Wright brothers didn't use much cardboard in their Flier...
Cardboard plane
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Would go well with the HobbyKing cardboard-box transmitter
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Genius!
Not looking forward to a rainy day
Not looking forward to a rainy day
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There's that Yorkshire man again Phil
If you had a slightly smaller model or a larger cardboard box, you would have storage, transportation, & transmission all taken care of. Perfect for the Van !!
As an aside, does the van have a knickname / alias? Van Morrison, or Van Halen, or ??? Your mates on MZ could help, of course
Cheers,
Wayne
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Some video
Going to try it off the slope soon
Going to try it off the slope soon
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Tried this back in the 80's and gave it away as a bad idea, not worth the effort.
Whichever way one looks at it, cardboard is simply way too heavy.
Whichever way one looks at it, cardboard is simply way too heavy.
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Re: Cardboard plane
Some IKEA packing has a kind of honeycomb style cardboard inner core, and light card/paper on both sides. That stuff is very strong, you can stand on it. Quite light, but possibly not light enough...
Stew.
Stew.
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You are right - cardboard it stupid and if it hadn't been Eco-Week I wouldn't have done it (and had a big box)
The motor is very heavy and already on an aluminium extension.
I tried to keep the weight down at the back end - but no joy
It's an all moving fin (easy way to replace with a depron one if really heavy back end)
Does fly well
The motor is very heavy and already on an aluminium extension.
I tried to keep the weight down at the back end - but no joy
It's an all moving fin (easy way to replace with a depron one if really heavy back end)
Does fly well
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thank for all
A friend made a conquest for his club, look this video
thank for all
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Re: Cardboard plane
...it sure can be lot of fun!!!!!
We use to do something similar but with empty pizza boxes and always had a ball and occasionally some actually flew!
We use to do something similar but with empty pizza boxes and always had a ball and occasionally some actually flew!
Cheers,
Tobe
Tobe