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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Wings, aerofoils and model aerodynamics.

Perfect is the enemy of good enough.