Collaborate Disseminate
Ask someone to picture an airplane and they’re likely to think of what is essentially a tube with wings and a stabilizing tail tacked onto one end of said tube. …read more Continue reading Blended Wing Body Passenger Airplanes and the End of Winged Tubes
Airliners have become an unremarkable part of modern life, but unless you happen to be an aircraft enthusiast, you’d be forgiven for thinking the latest Airbus model looks more or …read more Continue reading From Tube And Wing To Just Wing: The Future Of Airliners
Flying wings are popular options for fixed-wing FPV flying, but they have one rather annoying characteristic: yaw wag. The flying wing will wobble on the yaw axis while flying, and …read more Continue reading Eliminate Vertical Stabiliser with ArduPlane
Many of us have projects that end up spanning multiples years and multiple iterations, and gets revisited every time inspiration strikes and you’ve forgotten just how much work and frustration the previous round was. For [Daniel Riley] AKA [rctestflight] that project is a solar powered RC plane which to date …read more
Continue reading Soaring with the Sun: 4 Years of Solar RC Planes
Flying on the power of the sun is definitely not a new idea, but it usually involves a battery between the solar panels and the propulsion system. [ukanduit] decided to lose the battery completely and control the speed of the motor with the output of the solar panels. This leads …read more
Continue reading Tacking Against The Sun: Flying A Batteryless Solar RC Plane Is Almost Like Sailing
Many radio control aircraft modelers will be familiar with the process of cutting wings out of foam with the hot wire method. The tools are simple enough to build at home, and it’s an easy way of producing a lightweight set of wings without too much hassle. [IkyAlvin] walks a …read more