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.
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.
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.
This model is the second release on the RC project category but the first one that I made a detailed video tutorial for it. In youtube video tutorial I use Bahasa Indonesia because my oral english is not fluent enough to transfer a clear information, even in Bahasa I'm not good too, talking is not my favorite activity actually (lol), but don't worry I already put English subtitle on it, make sure you turn the translation on (CC).
I watch about this infamous "Gimli Glider" many times in Nat Geo channel Air Crash Investigations episode. Many says it's the miracle landing before Sully, which also safe landed. The Air Canada case in my opinion is pretty similar with Sully's case, both lost both engines and both glide down and landed safely, one on Gimli Airstrip and one on Hudson river, but Air Canada flight 143 started on much higher altitude (41,000 feet) which give the crew more time to think. The key part is the sideslip manuver by pilot Captain Pearson, to slow down the plane before landing. The papermodel is in 1:100 scale.
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Julius Perdana [a.k.a Julescrafter] is a self-taught graphic designer and 3D modeler of architectural animation. Despite a background in architecture, he began his career as a graphic designer for a printing company in 2001. Having co-founded two small graphic design companies he now fully works as a papercraft artist and an online publisher. Paper modeling is his hobby since he was a kid back in 1992.
