Foamboard spec wing tutorial and plans

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4 жыл бұрын

The plans can be downloaded from here: fpvwra.net/wp-content/uploads...
This is the FPVWRA Spec legal foamboard airplane. This is 100% free to share and build or even produce if you want to make your own kit. I am giving this free of charge to the RC community to allow the foamboard builders to be able to race in the FPVWRA's most popular class: Spec wing.
The DXF file is the one I used for my CNC laser. The motor mount can be made from 1/4" or 1/8" plywood.

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@moren0d1 4 жыл бұрын

Nice work Alex. The community is going to love this.

@fishycomics 3 жыл бұрын

One of the best Tutorials out there on this, and I thank you. just now I have to find one for a 600MM size 24 incher

@DavidCousins 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the plans and DXF files. These are fantastic.

@markanthonyacosta5889 4 жыл бұрын

Been looking for this! Thank you for the video and the free plan!

@takeshiito2292 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Nice tutorial! I am gonna try to make this flying wing.

@RyanDoesLife Жыл бұрын

I love you and this video, thanks for being an absolute G! Liked and subscribed.

@BrassStacks 4 жыл бұрын

Wahoo!!! 200th subscriber! I can't wait to build one of these!!!

@philipajones9910 3 жыл бұрын

Good work Alex! ive been looking for a foam board sports wing, im a big fan of FT but theyre wings arnt what i was looking for , yours looks complete and tough, wish me luck printing the plan on my home printer.

@shakeyjakefpv7855 4 жыл бұрын

Well, you’re no Josh Bixler but good work Alex. Thanks for the plans. We’ve had several requests for a foamboard SPEC wing in our group. This should be a nice Segway for the guys that started with flight test but are interested in Spec racing.

@K-Productions1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the plans !!!!

@jhbuxton4 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Nice job man!

@domperez1558 4 жыл бұрын

Love it. Just laser cut a couple for me and a couple for my buddy. It may be a late night for me and my hot glue gun. Appreciate the plans and video!

@wheresmynamego1152 4 жыл бұрын

Edgewater would be an amazing location for a FPVWRA event

@MrVipulLal 2 жыл бұрын

Great. Thanks!

@user-ne3tp1jl4t 7 ай бұрын

tq bro. appreciate it so much

@cosmic_pixel Жыл бұрын

i’m going to give this a go

@spartan3299 Жыл бұрын

Sure would like to start some micro wing racing, especially with great Analog and light HD video becoming affordable. I'm not sure why the WRA seemed to fissile except the by the overwhelming whoop and freestyle wave. Wings are just so much simpler yet still an exciting ride and competition.

@spiralbrain 10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

@cluster2427 3 ай бұрын

Can you please send me the files the link does not work anymore

@mojaviex6470 2 жыл бұрын

21:06 🤯🤯🤯this trick changed my life 😱😱😱 really

@deekayfpv1002 2 жыл бұрын

great video and thanks very much for sharing, this will be my first wing as im a complete noob, what thickness of foam board should I use thanks again from the uk

@randybobandy6450 Жыл бұрын

Dollar tree foam board/readi board. Panels come 20in by 30in with 4.5mm thickness with paper laminate still attached. Foam should be extruded polystyrene (XPS)

@Mailzas Жыл бұрын

Nice plans. Just I would do spar from wood, and spray some foam from flacon, on top area.

@Mailzas Жыл бұрын

Also for CG, would be good idea to cut hole for fingers :)

@josephcuison5412 4 жыл бұрын

Nice informative vid. Would have been more helpful if there were close up shots of what you were gluing/putting together instead of watching you from a mile away. Perhaps you could ask a bud to hold the camera for you next time you do this?

@Galadhriyan Жыл бұрын

Hi... Is a grand turbo gt2215/10 (kv1100) motor good for this wing? Or a cheap A2212/6T (2200kv) motor better... Got this cheap from AliExpress... And a 30A esp... what do you advice?

@JohnnyWoodA1A 4 жыл бұрын

Alex, do you sell the motor mounts laser cut?

@user-rn8mi6yj9d Жыл бұрын

Hi, great video! what is the foamboard size (wide/length/thick)? thank you

@randybobandy6450 Жыл бұрын

This is dollar tree foam board/readi board. The sheets come 20 inches by 30 inches with a thickness (with the paper lamination still on both sides) of 4.5mm.

@TheDownloadfreegames 10 ай бұрын

seems like an easy build , one thing not mentioned anywhere is the scale of the printed plans or what paper size they shoudl be printed on. Flite test includes a scale on theirs so you can zoom in and out and find the sweet sport to print it . Does anyone have any info on this ?

@eXpire163 4 жыл бұрын

Hi ibcrazy, thanks a lot for sharing this plan and even more the idea!!! but could you get it touch via flitetest forum with SPONZ and let him have a look at the plans, the community nower days has just "higher" expactancies (this is not a complain, only an idea) and maybe even publish it the over him to grow the wing racing in the flitetest familie. Do you got any sugestions on how to mount the fpv stuff? i really liked my ft arrow that had some slots for the rx and vtx. Keep up your great work!!!

@fpvwra9745 4 жыл бұрын

He already has my files and is making an "official" tiled file for this airplane. As four mounting, just cut a notch out of the nose fot eh camera and a box for the video transmitter somewhere in the wing. There is a lot fo room for stuff on this one.

@eXpire163 4 жыл бұрын

@@fpvwra9745 great!! Hopefully this gives the wirg racing another boost world wide!!

@yayathidayat6678 4 жыл бұрын

any flight video of this one? I really want one :P

@gianmarcocaraballo9950 3 жыл бұрын

What motor do you put?

@PakiNewsNetwork Жыл бұрын

Dear Alex, can I make a plane with thermopore plastic material? Its light weight.

@adrianlee30 Жыл бұрын

whats your recommendation to get this cut on a foam board, if you dont have access to a laser cutter or cnc machine?

@randybobandy6450 Жыл бұрын

Xacto knife

@abdullahmeral5804 2 күн бұрын

İ couldn't reach the plan, where can i find it ?

@leehudson1384 2 жыл бұрын

Probably a stupid question but how do I use these files without a laser cutter? Do I print the PDFs? If so what size paper, A1? I can't imagine many people having an A1 printer

@bkpickell Жыл бұрын

There should be an option to print tiles. If not you can take it to a print shop and they can print it for a couple bucks. Although if I were to go through all that I would just take the dxf files to a makers space and laser cut them. And you should only have to print out one if you print them. As they should be symmetrical. Print out one template and just flip it over for the opposite wing.

@mb580-1 8 ай бұрын

hi how do i print it out to the size you use as i can only print it on a4

@basemandog 2 ай бұрын

Any chance you have the files on another site? The link is dead

@brandonbortolan4184 4 жыл бұрын

What motor and prop would you recommend?

@jhbuxton4 4 жыл бұрын

Rules and regs/motor setup can be found here. TBH you could use any power setup you want, it just wouldn't be considered "spec". fpvwra.net/

@bkpickell Жыл бұрын

@@jhbuxton4 So is the sport dead? I clicked on the link and there is quite literally nothing there. You click on the link for tech inspection and it says to click on the updated rules for 2018 (First red flag: no update in four years). You click on that and it says to click on the 2018 rule book. So I clicked on that and it is giving links to the other two which went nowhere.

@openskeyedrones 9 ай бұрын

I know this is a few yrs old now… the only file is a pdf zip file. Is there a file (.dxf etc.) I can dump right to my laser? Also, I don’t see the motor mount file. If anyone has both, I’d love a copy!

@omerkum5489 4 жыл бұрын

which motor dıd you use can you tell me pls or someone who knows thıs motorr

@mikeybroe1 3 жыл бұрын

t motor spec motor

@jonholzworth4463 Ай бұрын

Is FPVWRA still a thing?

@mattsmith4843 4 жыл бұрын

Yo @flitetest, where is my spec speed build kit, lol

@fpvwra9745 4 жыл бұрын

What's a speed build kit? I could certainly design one for you.

@BullFrog96 4 жыл бұрын

@@fpvwra9745 it's a pre laser cut kit so you dont have to download the planes and cut it out your self. They usually come with all the hardware needed to build the plane excluding electronics

@markthomas3853 4 жыл бұрын

lol this was my inital thought... maybe a partnership with FT is in order... :)

@mattsmith4843 4 жыл бұрын

@@fpvwra9745, Speed build kits from Flite test are laser cut parts ready to ship. this includes laser cut motor mount and horns.

@kng128 Жыл бұрын

So an FT Versa isn't a spec wing?

@fabianouberaba 4 жыл бұрын

Please, what motor and prop?

@jonathanedwards5772 4 жыл бұрын

The FPVWRA website has all the info on spec legal products including motors and props

@JimDieckow 4 жыл бұрын

no usable plan was able to be downloaded. The only thing was a pic that was not in a flat configuration with no measurements. I will need a tiled file as I have to hand cut.

@fpvwra9745 4 жыл бұрын

How do I make a tiled file? There should have been 2 dxf files in there which is a CAD file. If there is another format in which I can export it so you can cut it by hand, let me know.

@markthomas3853 4 жыл бұрын

no need for tiled... although it would make it a little easier... use adobe acrobat reader, goto print > set page sizing to poster > check mark cut marks > leave tile scale at 100%... it should print out with the cut marks on it which will let you get them put together cleanly....

@markthomas3853 4 жыл бұрын

some looking... it looks like this will put the ticks for tile alignment... I'll have to try this out next time around

@jurassicgardener3136 4 жыл бұрын

@@markthomas3853 I am still concerened that the plan is not in a flat pic and that will make the vertical shorter than it needs to be. I do thank hyou for the directions and itt worked fine. I am going to go ahead and print it out and I guess just measure to see if it will fold over long enough.

@adamwadkins6237 4 жыл бұрын

@@markthomas3853 thanks for the heads up! Worked perfectly!

@joswelhm Жыл бұрын

how to print motormount?

@candracandra9163 3 ай бұрын

new link for the plans please

@wilhelmdanielsson9659 4 ай бұрын

i can't click on the link. Help!

@trekkifpv1976 4 жыл бұрын

Ok everybody im asking for help here ive been working with this plane for about a month now n im having pitch control issues not unstable just not vary responsive in the pitch axis if anyone has had a similar problem or may know why i am please let me know i would love to get racing with it thanks

@ammo193 3 жыл бұрын

How's the elevator dual rates?

@trekkifpv1976 3 жыл бұрын

@@ammo193 i had everything maxed out n the pitch control is really sluggish

@ammo193 3 жыл бұрын

@@trekkifpv1976 OK.... How about trying better digital metal gear servos?

@trekkifpv1976 3 жыл бұрын

@@ammo193 im running metal geat servos but there analog

@ammo193 3 жыл бұрын

@@trekkifpv1976 duh-oh donuts!!! Analog servos tend to be slow, especially with small control surfaces.... Is it possible to try corona ds939mg? You'll love them!!

@markthomas3853 4 жыл бұрын

I like it even more that the files have flite test named in them :)... for those that haven't watch a few flitetest builds and you'll get a good idea of how to best build in the FT style... for example the hinge bevel is much easier if you leave it on the flat surface when cutting... also the notchs you've got can look a lot cleaner if you don't cut all the way though the foam but just the inside of the foamboard and then rip out the cuts so the keys fit in but it leaves the paper on the other side... I've got a spare DYS spec motor that I'll have to use on one of these... nice backup for my proper spec wing I suppose haha... or maybe a better one to practice bashing with?... also a bit of packing tape can go a LONG way to making these things much stronger.

@markthomas3853 4 жыл бұрын

somehow I forgot I have a 3d printer... so I'm currently printing the motor mount out... my only concern is how strong/thick the side braces need to be... so erring on the thicker side for starters... will toss it up on thingiverse in a day or so if they aren't already up there by that time lol... I ran out of foamboard a few weeks ago so need to stop and pick some up again...

@johanhoahm 4 жыл бұрын

3d print motor mount will definitely melt with this motor 😂

@fpvwra9745 4 жыл бұрын

@@johanhoahm - We had a few run 3D printed mounts in the State Games here in Virginia. None of them melted. in fact, one guy ran a 4S pack with a 5.25X6.25 on a Spec wing and was going 110 on a 3D printed mount. No problems.

@thevene 4 жыл бұрын

Hello @@markthomas3853, Do you have a file for that motor mount??

@markthomas3853 4 жыл бұрын

@@thevene sorry no my changes to it threw off the scale... I need to work on it again but working 2 jobs for a few more weeks so don't have a lot of time to play :(

@rodneyalexgoodrum9240 Ай бұрын

Can't download the plan

@BullFrog96 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like I need to break out the hot glue this weekend

@fpvwra9745 4 жыл бұрын

Were you able to download the plans ok?

@BullFrog96 4 жыл бұрын

@@fpvwra9745 yes. I was able to download them on my phone and extract the files from there.

@123LOTAN 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing the plans for the wing. I love this wing, she fly very great! Here is a video of her flight: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7FoZcmF2s6xc30.html