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- Written by: Julius Perdana
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This is part 2 for building ATR-72 600 RC plane. In this episode I will cover about building the tail section, stabilizer and wing mounting. By looking at this second video, I hope I can finish it in part 3 and maiden flight in part 4, which also including all previous parts combined together in just single tutorial. The main things I share on this episode is how to bend and roll depron foam and how to glue and assembly the parts.
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- Written by: Julius Perdana
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I have many request for releasing a simple RC plane plans for beginners, so I decided to designed one. This plane is designed specifically for beginners that still learn how to fly an RC plane and to familirized the orientation. Beginner tends to broke front propeller so I put the prop on the back. Beginners tend to have slow reflex after taking off so I made the wing with big amount of dihedral angle, about 8 degree. So the plane will autolevel by itself. Taking off is also pretty easy just push the throttle it will take off by itself without touching elevator or rudder sticks. It also easy to build only uses 2 servos (3 channels) and very robust construction if it built right. It crashed on maiden but it can stand the test and survived.
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ATR-72 is twin turboprop engine made by France and Italy aircraft manufacture. Its main purpose is to be a commuter plane. In this episode I want to share with you on how to build nose section, landing gear and middle fuselage. It will be continued to other parts, maybe in 2-3 parts again. The wingspan in 1800 mm and for other specs you can look down on description below. The main material is 5-6 mm depron.
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- Written by: Julius Perdana
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For this project we'll leave the air for a while and hit the water. I made a mini RC boat with waste foam material, which is small styrofoam meal box waste. You can also buy the foam box very cheap or by using 2mm depron foam or XPS foam. I also wanted to experiment for using only servo for the electronics. Inside servo there are few part that are mini ESC and off course mini brushed motor. I use all that parts for thrusting a mini boat. I also experimenting with differential thrust setup and more common setup with single prop and a rudder. Actually the result is better to use common setup with single prop and a rudder, because differential thrust tend to brings more problems, like steering difficulty, broke shaft and drained to many battery ampere. You can choose which setup to suit you best or even improving it.
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Piper Cherokee is a private and trainer plane. Made by Piper Aircraft. first flight in 1960. It still in production until now with variants Arrow, Archer and Warrior. This plane is very stable and easy for handling. I made an RC plane of it in semi scale model. I made its wing longer than the real one. The front wheel it's not steerable but don't worry you can still steer it on the ground with rudder.
