Several years ago, my day job was flying corporate jets around. For a few years I sat in the left hand seat of a Learjet 45. It was a glorious aircraft to l...

I have recently shared a few new or ongoing projects and I thought I would share another. I started this one back in December. It took a back seat for the Po...

With the easing of the UK lockdown restrictions I had an opportunity to try and take the Skymaster for its maiden flight. I had some concerns from the outset...

Ever get an idea and feel so excited about it that you simply have to stop what you're doing and flesh it out a bit? This often happens to me with these mode...

With the Cessna 337 finished but lockdown continuing its time for a new project. I have a couple of other projects going on in the background but for various...

After a frantic start where I could achieve a lot in a short space of time the design process slowed to a halt due to running out of PLA. Like Franciscan mon...

Making Test Parts and Some Early Print Troubles

The tiny part for my printer I needed finally arrived and I have set off on the first print of our prototype. I started with the aft firewall section. Here y...

Ever since I was a kid with a window seat I have been fascinated but the mechanical goings on of the wings. Even now as an airline pilot, if I find myself po...

Ok, my printer is still broken, despite attempting a short-term epoxy fix. My replacement parts are still are not here but due in the next couple of days. I ...

The first iteration of the model is compete and it's time to start printing... Unfortunately my printer is has broken under the strain of producing PPE Hospi...

We are nearly there. It's almost time to start printing our aeroplane. One of the reasons I enjoy modelling, be it with a 3D printer and CAD software or just...

Today is time to add in some elevator controls. Although it's always worth leaving this kind of thing until the majority of the modelling is complete, so tha...

I have built the cooling scoop for the aft engine and also made some extrude cuts in the fwd firewall to allow some cooling air into the fuselage. First, a d...

This part of the design is a bit tedious I'm afraid. We need to section the boom into parts that can be printed. The screen cast is around twelve minutes but...

In the last post of this week I have sectioned the fuselage. You can follow along with the screen cast to see how I have gone about it and I'll just explain ...

I'm going to start sectioning the fuselage. I’ll start with the motor mounts, known sometimes as firewalls (so named because in a real aeroplane it would be ...

A few final things to do before we are ready to mirror the left side of the model. First, since there will be a servo in each wing for the ailerons, I have m...

There are so many different ways to create hinges for the control surfaces. Some of them are obviously better than others. I guess the considerations that ne...

Welcome back! Whilst under lockdown I’m going to continue posting a blog post each week day, documenting the the RC model aircraft build journey, from beginn...