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A remote-control airplane with a 75 inch wingspan and 1800g of thrust. It's been a plan of mine for a while to build this, over 2 years in fact.
🟩Parts Plan
🟩Order Parts
🟥Assemble (sub-milestones to come)
I first concieved this project in Senior year of high school, if not earlier. At the time I was really into microcontrollers and electronics, and some of my favorite projects were my Arduino experiments. I started exploring the field of RC much earlier, when my parents got me a toy drone as a birthday gift in middle school. I later built an RC blimp for a middle school project, and even started making plans for a hexacopter. However, I soon joined an FRC team, and so I took a break from designing RC vehicles as robotics gave me my electronics fix. Later, once the pandemic hit, and robotics got cancelled, I dug up my old plans and started designing this RC plane.
I wanted a decent flight time, at least 10-12 minutes. To that end, I planned out my parts list to ensure my batteries would last long enough for a 15 minute flight. I also wanted a twin-engine design, which is why I went with the instructable linked above as my guiding document.