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Jon
Apr 16, 20202 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 13 - Housekeeping or Threat and Error Managment
We are nearly there. It's almost time to start printing our aeroplane. One of the reasons I enjoy modelling, be it with a 3D printer and...
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Jon
Apr 15, 20202 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 12 - Elevator controls
Today is time to add in some elevator controls. Although it's always worth leaving this kind of thing until the majority of the modelling...
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Jon
Apr 14, 20203 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 11 - Staying Cool
I have built the cooling scoop for the aft engine and also made some extrude cuts in the fwd firewall to allow some cooling air into the...
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Jon
Apr 13, 20202 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 10 - Sectioning the tail booms.
This part of the design is a bit tedious I'm afraid. We need to section the boom into parts that can be printed. The screen cast is...
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Jon
Apr 10, 20202 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 9 - Sectioning the fuselage
In the last post of this week I have sectioned the fuselage. You can follow along with the screen cast to see how I have gone about it...
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Jon
Apr 9, 20203 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 8 - Firewalls and sectioning the fuselage.
I'm going to start sectioning the fuselage. I’ll start with the motor mounts, known sometimes as firewalls (so named because in a real...
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Jon
Apr 8, 20202 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 7 - Thinking about Printing
A few final things to do before we are ready to mirror the left side of the model. First, since there will be a servo in each wing for...
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Jon
Apr 7, 20202 min read
How to Build an Aeroplane - Day 6 - Aileron and elevator hinges
There are so many different ways to create hinges for the control surfaces. Some of them are obviously better than others. I guess the...
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Jon
Apr 6, 20202 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 5 - Tail
Welcome back! Whilst under lockdown I’m going to continue posting a blog post each week day, documenting the the RC model aircraft build...
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Jon
Apr 3, 20203 min read
How To 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 4 - Wings and Aerofoils
Wings, aerofoils and model aerodynamics.
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Jon
Apr 2, 20201 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 3 - Modelling the Fuselage
Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
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Jon
Apr 1, 20202 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane - Day 2 - Sketching the Fuselage
Welcome back, today we start sketching out the fuselage in our CAD programme.
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Jon
Mar 31, 20202 min read
How to Build and Aeroplane: Day 1 - Choosing our Canvas
What type of aircraft are we going to build? Since it would be great if others would design and build alongside me it can’t be an...
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Jon
Mar 30, 20202 min read
How to 3D Print an Aeroplane. Join Me!
Join me, modelling a 3D printable aircraft from scratch...
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