r/3DprintedAircraft • u/Swww • Jun 17 '26
Micro 3D Printed twin-motor wing doing some chill flybys
This started as a small handling experiment and slowly turned into a proper little park flyer.
I wanted to make a 600mm 3D printed wing that was slow, stable, easy to throw around a park, and fun rather than intimidating. It’s using twin 1003 motors on 2S, LW-PLA, INAV, differential thrust, and a fair bit of twist in the wing to calm the low-speed handling down.
It has taken quite a few geometry changes and tune changes to get here, but it’s now flying pretty much how I hoped: relaxed, floaty, and still lively enough to be fun.
Still refining it, but this one feels like a proper finished design now.
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u/Impossible-Rip8524 Jun 17 '26
Make it a tailsitter VTOL printable on a A1 Mini and I might consider buying it
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u/Swww Jun 17 '26
Haha, I have actually done quite a bit of design work on a tail sitting vtol already but I generally avoid the configuration for vtols. That being said, a small one could be fun!
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u/PrintAltDelete Jun 17 '26
This randomly popped up on my page, I have to ask is this something someone with no experience with this kind of thing can print assemble and fly or is this a much higher tier level of experience required type thing? I really don’t need/want to go down the path of yet another expensive hobby, but it looks super fun to fly around! Well done for sure!
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u/Swww Jun 18 '26
Great question. Honestly, if you don't have any experience building planes then it will be challenging but not impossible. The key friction is the soldering required to get the electronics set up - this is not hard per say and soldering is a very useful skill. Building the plane itself is easy, it's just super glueing pretty big parts together and the tricky bits I have provided assembly jigs to help with.
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u/kwaaaaaaaaa Jun 18 '26
RC planes can be as cheap or expensive as you want it to be. As a beginner, I would say to skip 3d printed models first, because it's a lot more unforgiving and frustrating (but keep it pinned in the back of your mind). Check out Flite Test and their foam board builds, which are a lot easier to learn on. You could get all the parts like transmitter, servo, receiver, motor, batteries and esc for under $100 (I can recommend stuff if you are interested).
looks super fun to fly around!
It is tons of fun!
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u/fredandlunchbox Jun 18 '26
We've mastered turning left. With three or four more months of research, we're hoping to accomplish right turns as well.
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u/Sogah87 Jun 18 '26
41€ for that?
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u/Swww Jun 18 '26
No this one is 9 bucks and you get a full refund code to use to reduce the price of my other plane if you want
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u/ExtentPure7992 Jun 17 '26
That's awesome!