WHISTLE FOR RC PLANE

by yves.morele | December 24, 2017 | (0) Posted in How To

in this article i explain how to make with 3D printer a whistle for rc plane and the test of this whistle.

I wanted to put a whistle on my planes or  my bombs for more realism but I did not find whistle in the shop for the rc planes, I then found a whistling missile and I bought it.



after extracting the whistle from the missile I took the dimensions to reproduce it to the 3D printer

but before make the 3D print i want to try if the sound is good and i put missiles on my  cargo twin, you can listen the sound of the missiles in this video





i think the sound is good and i make the 3D printing
you can see in this pictures the results and i put the files for making your own whistle
you can modify the scale for more large plane or more small



sifflet.stl

sifflet.dwg

sifflet.ipt

and you can see and listen the result with the whistle mounting on my prime jet 8





what is important is that the angle between the whistle and the front of the aircraft is 90 ° with the whistle nose to the front of the aircraft. By changing the angle of the whistle we can do little that it whistles only when the aircraft dive like during the attacks of the German planes stukas Junkers Ju 87

COMMENTS

Mach60 on January 3, 2018
This is great! I would like to print this, but I am not sure what file format you have provided. Would you be willing to include the STL file or post it on Thingiverse?

Thanks!!
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yves.morele on January 4, 2018
i put the STL file in the article, tell me if it is ok or not
Thank's
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jetpackninja on January 4, 2018
Had the same issue. Thanks for including the .sti file. Anxious now to try it!
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jetpackninja on January 5, 2018
Printed one today! Looks great! Thanks for the article! 5 stars!

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yves.morele on January 7, 2018
thank you, good fly with the whistle
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jetpackninja on January 9, 2018
I need to experiment more.
My whistle didn't work.
Wondering, is the bottom of the whistle maybe supposed to be left open?
Also, just glued mine stick on top of the plane, maybe it needs to be mounted flush to a surface like on your plane?
Maybe I need to just print it bigger?
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yves.morele on January 10, 2018
not the bottom of the whistle is closed. the thinnest part of the opening must be towards the front of the plane (the direction must be as in picture 3). when you blow on the whistle whistle? you printed on scale 1? good experiments
regards
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Robert_RR on January 16, 2018
For 10 bucks and free shipping you can get eight whistles from a product called Nerf Dog Howler like I purchased from amazon.com, they are a Nerf flying disc, product comes with two discs and each disc has 4 of those whistles. The link to the product page on amazon is as follows: https://www.amazon.com/Nerf-Dog-Howler-10-Inch-2-Pack/dp/B00EUV72RE/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1516119073&sr=8-2-fkmr2&keywords=missile%2Bwhistling%2Baction%2Bplay%2Bset&th=1
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yves.morele on January 16, 2018
thank you for this , good help for man without 3D printer
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jetpackninja on January 28, 2018
Hmmmmm, wondering what your original measurements were.
The recent one I printed may work (it does if I blow into it)
But seems kinda big and heavy. 30cm diameter at the base and 70cm tall.
Printing a scaled down one now to see if it works. I think my first one was just too small.
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WHISTLE FOR RC PLANE