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- Written by: Julius Perdana
- Category: RC Foam Project
Bango v2 is an answer to many request for another simple plane design and a trainer for beginner. It was designed to surpass Bango v1 performance. The main goal is still the same, which is a trainer plane that is easy to fly and can withstand hard landing even crashes. Because I know beginners usually afraid to crashing their plane, so they held back. That's why I made Bango 2 so new pilots don't have to worry damaging their RC plane when hard landing or crashing. By moving the motor the the center and on the back of the plane make it free to propeller strike to the ground. Also build the vertical stab with 2 layer of foams gives Bango 2 more rugged than Bango 1. Rudder and elevator servo placement that are outside the fuselage also an ease for beginner to install. Bango 2 also equipped with detachable landing gear, if you hard landing with landing gear attached, it will detached by itself and will not damage the fuselage, because the landing gear just held by 2 rubber bands.
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- Written by: Julius Perdana
- Category: RC Foam Project
Wilga is my third homemade/ DIY RC model, I built in in 2013. Some have request for me to release the build video. The first version is very detailed and very hard to make, especially the tail boom part, because in the first version the tail boom is fully cylindrical. It's also quite heavy around 1200 gram, so in this latest version I already made the plans easier to build and only has 900 gram AUW even with larger wing area. The first one is 1300 mm this one is 1400 mm wingspan. However the test flying was not very smooth, there were some trials and also a crash. But luckily it was easy to repair and I made the nose a bit longer to remove the heavier counter weight ballast.
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- Written by: Julius Perdana
- Category: RC Foam Project
Many have requested this RC model plane, this is Sky Arrow with 1700mm wingspan. Its wing loading can be categorized as a trainer plane. It has big canopy and room for storage make it perfect for FPV platform. It can fly slow and very easy to control make it suitable for beginner's plane or trainer plane. This is a second build, the first one was the prototype has thinner airfoil and doesn't have dihedral angle on its wing. Flying weight with 3S 2200 mAh Lipo battery is around 1 kg, it still can take off with 1500 gram weight. There are 2 version of tail booms that you can choose. The plans comes in A4 and A0 size format, but the decal with A3 format.
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- Written by: Julius Perdana
- Category: RC Foam Project
This is the final part of Boeing 737-300 building video series. In this episode I am going to share with you the rest of the build to finish this RC airliner which are, making dummy engines, motor mounting, install electronics like ESC, servo and pushrods, paint and decal and finally its maiden flight. At first the CG is wrong (12 cm) and almost crash, the correct CG is 17 cm from trailling edge. On this build I learned more about CG and the first time using that type of retract landing gear.
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- Written by: Julius Perdana
- Category: RC Foam Project
I redesign my old plans on this GA8 Airvan RC plane model. This new version has better performance on flight, more lift, more stable and easier to control. I made the airfoil thicker than the first version. This model is made out of 5 mm polyfoam or depron foam sheet. I choose FlyStark livery because I think that's the coolest Airvan color scheme on the net. This livery decal also shared along with the plans. If you enjoy my Cessna 172 model you will enjoy more, building and flying this model and it's easier to build and fly. It only needs 4 servos, there's no steering on the front landing gear, you can't turn on taxi but the rudder is enough to steer the plane when it's running for take off. The wing and wing struts are detachable for easier transport. I also include 2D pics for 2 pilots and 4 passengers to add realness of the model.