When I watched to vlog 134 of flite test I was impressed by how nice the small Bush planes are, definitely the FreedomFox of Trent Palmer. It looks so nice and I got even more impressed after seeing Trent’s video of the $2.5mil Flying Camera video.
So my dream is to also have my own FreedomFox to fly wherever I want to. but I don’t have the money to buy one, so I thought why not make one from foam so I can fly my own tiny FreedomFox.
Build
I’ve build some FT planes before but I never designed my own plane.
So I started with importing the plans of the FT BUSHWACKER in to my CAD software
and scaled it down to 50%. I used it to get started and did some changes to make it look more like the KITFOX.
After that I made my plans and I made a skin that I can paste onto my foam.
After that I started building. I cut out my pieces and pasted my skin on the foam and covered it with some transparent book cover.
I 3D printed my landing gear and made it so I can easily put it on or off the plane.
I used a Emax 2204-2300 kv motor with a 6 x 45 prop anda 1500 mah batery to get the cg wright
The maiden flight
the plane was a little bit heavy with the paper skin and the heavy battery to get a proper cg. So it can only fly fast to get enough lift to stay in the air. It does'nt have the characteristics of a Bush plane but I am happy of the fact that I designed a plane that flies.
landing gear print file: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2799626/#collections
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