RC plane made of A4 size paper sheets

by abhilash_patel | January 7, 2018 | (3) Posted in Projects

This tutorial is about making of an RC plane of which body is made of Paper. This is a lightweight and flyable plane. complete body and reinforcement I made using paper only.
I made triangle cross-section of paper and made the complete skeleton of my plane using it and then I covered it with paper. the overall strength of plane was far better than I expected. My plane survived many crashes with slight damage in the first plane and no damage in the second plane. 

Following video contains overall information of plane and flying:



this video cover complete making:





Following is the list of material and link where you can find it:

  • obviously, few A4 size papers
  • Glue to stick paper
  • WLtoys receiver module from F959: 
  • Coreless motor with propeller: 


Making the building block:

During this project, I made 3 planes in total. these triangle cross sections were the building block of all of them.

The side of these triangle sections is 5mm in size. for better strength, it is better to have the higher number of small-sized sticks. but making high numbers of sticks takes more effort and sticking these smaller sticks is also difficult. Where the bigger size of the sicks cannot take load very well.

the process to make:

  • do marking 5mm apart on paper,
  • do crease cut on first 3 lines to fold it easily and cut it over the fourth line,
  • fold it into the triangle shape and stick it by one side,

follow making the video for better understanding.

by stacking these sections multiple ways different strength and shape can be achieved as per requirement.


making the skeleton of the plane:

The denser structure would always better in term of strength. so within the fuselage and wing, I tried to increase the number of load taking members.

after making skeleton it is covered with paper. covering the complete plane with paper is not necessary. the only wing needs to be covered with paper but covering fuselage would improve its strength and stiffness. Even during testing this plane it damaged slightly only where it was not covered.

The complete making process is shown in making the video.


Elevator and rudder are made of paper and connected to the plane with paper hinges.

For actuation of control surfaces, Wltoys receiver is used. this receiver has 2 inbuilt servo motors and a brushed ESC that can control a coreless motor. This receiver board is compatible with FlySky receiver. electronics was installed with hot glue.

Here is the process to bind Reciever with flysky tx.

  • Turn on tx with by pressing bind button,
  • connect Rx to the battery,
  • restart Tx,
  • done.



COMMENTS

808aerosquadron on January 8, 2018
I am impressed. Well done.
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Timwetzel on January 8, 2018
well done. Have to try sooner or later!
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scottie on January 10, 2018
That's impressive :)
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RC plane made of A4 size paper sheets