Lulu aerodyne

Altho i put it here into quadcopter part, it is not really about drone thing, but rather it is a kind of glider i work on. It would be fully airworthy. I use only wood and paper, and if succeded will pursue mine drone+airplane ideas. Anyway, just to photos, made by crappy telephone. And photo shows basic wing skeletone parts, self made, or to be made.   

Nice, oldfashioned wooden glider. Lot of precise sawing and filing. Would be cool to try printing the parts with a 3d printer, though not sure if the plastic would be light enough.

Best flight: 7 min 56 sec and distance 22 miles   That's pretty amazing, but how will you find it back if it goes that far?

It`s very large.good luck with the project Mr Data.

The work progresses.
I allready assembled whole wing, yet it has to be a bit reprofiled. I know it shall be done earlier in assembly process. Will try to do it now, while wood sometimes can be unwilling to cooperate.   






Than left rear wing. Hull. Than, colour. I hope you can help me choose.

Looks like a lot of work. And also patience, cause it has to dry often before you can proceed.
Did the parts come prefabricated or do you saw them yourself?

For the colors I would make one half white, airbrushed to aluminium grey.
With some official looking decals and high gloss finish.
You could go all apeshit on the paintjob and paint realistic popnails.

Are you planning to fly it?

1. Yes a lot.
2. I cut them all myself, all angles and curves, and it is not perfect. I would better use 3d print..
3. Alu color looks cool, white too. Glossy? nice
4. Ape shit? Do you mean like all with banana stickers? - hehe,    - when made good, will be funny.
5. I can plan, but you know... to plan is not everything

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4. Ape shit? Do you mean like all with banana stickers? - hehe,    - when made good, will be funny.

You could go bananas instead of apeshit. 

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 2. I cut them all myself, all angles and curves, and it is not perfect. I would better use 3d print..

Wow that's nice, very difficult to do that perfect. With that many parts simply finishing the plane and making it look good is an accomplishment by itself.

Curious how you're going to cover the wings, are you using paper for that? Would heat shrink film not be better and easier?

Small work progress update:

That looks pretty cool already. 

Can almost start doing the skin.

A small update.

It's pretty large compared to that stool, bigger then I thought.

How are you going to paint it, spraypaint or brush?


Good idea using strips of paper for the wing, had not thought of that.
Guess it prevents the wing from bending when the paper dries.

 

For now just hairspray or clearcoating or just varnish, color? yes aluminium would do really good, but for now i just make it water proof. Than later maybe some alu spray.

That is looking really good m8y.
I would never have the patience to build something like this.

Good luch and carry on the good work sir 

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For now just hairspray or clearcoating or just varnish, color? yes aluminium would do really good, but for now i just make it water proof. Than later maybe some alu spray.

For spraying it's better to do 10 superthin dry layers, then 1 or 2 wet ones. But you probably already know this.

Is this the first model you build, or have you build others before?