Another $10 RC plane. Air Hogs Titan

This is an Air hog hand launched glider that walmart sells for $10. I have converted it to RC with an EDF and three servos. It's running on a 2200 mah 11.1v lipo battery. EDF is out of a phase 3 f-16

[@andrewandlee]

Just returned to the UK from Washington DC with one of these under each arm $14 for the pair from Walmart....... See what you've started!!!!

[@TracyMontgomery]

That's awesome! Next time I'm at Wal-Mart I'm going to pick one of those up.

[@electronixTech]

This is the nicest Air Hog conversion I have seen. I like how you separated the two hatches and used the rare earth magnets to hold them on. I just bought two of these Air Hog Titan planes here in Canada for $12.99 each based on your video and will be doing a conversion myself soon. Thanks for putting this out.

[@adamwolfy4826]

I saw one of these ages ago and thought; 'what if i could turn it rc?' and now i found this video. GENIUS! Thanks a lot! :D

[@Jimgoodwin846]

Just bought one of these myself. My son is on his second one. They fly amazingly well. Thanks for the video.

[@CaseyNixa]

You have a talent for explaining things. Ever since I was a little kid I wanted to put a motor in one of those toy gliders. Good job!

[@woodstoney]

Nicely done! Great tribute to your enthusiasm and creativity!!

[@blackops84321]

Thanks for the great video on this. You make it look so simple to make. I'm going to Walmart today.

[@Shazzababey211]

You sir are an absolute genius. Brilliantly inspiring, I gotta see what I can get in the UK that's similar! Been into rc heli's for a while but looking to get into aeroplanes too, and this ideal. Kudos to you my man!

[@swankyjunk]

The sound it makes cracks me up! It's like "I'm Flyin'! WEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" xD

[@1akey]

Great build video!

[@garyhilson7220]

It just amazing what the minimization of electronics has made this kind of RC building possible. Back in the 70's you could get into RC for under 2-5 grand. Now you can spend 300 buck and get a four channel transmitter, receiver, motor, etc., And start designing A/C that rival anything NASA can design. These videos are a extreme inspiration, good work.

[@websitesthatneedanem]

Excellent build. excellent video. Well done sir!

[@JoViterbo]

This is an awesome project!!

[@juanwise1956]

I love it! I want to start building and flying with my children and with no experience at all I think this one and your Cess-Nah!! would be cool family projects. Thanks for the share!

[@FlyboyZoom]

Awesome, I picked one up and setting it up with a folding prop on the front. great video

[@tydek07]

I will have to give this a try. Looks gr8!

[@aracknoid3cosplay342]

This is awesome! I've been wanting to try this for years.

[@kevinpegram262]

Awesome job!

[@loganm.8286]

You are a pro! Job well done making the best of a $10 plane!

[@rcediction]

Dude you are amazing! Great work on that plane!

[@AnthonyRamosHiFiWiFi]

NICE work sir!!!!

[@VinnieVincent100]

Nice job. So awesome.

[@powerofone1645]

Excellent, these look fun.

[@tnasburypl]

Very cool. Nothing better than flying what you build. Ahhh.

[@strungout25]

Great video. Thanks for posting.

[@raguilard]

Hey, nice job. Here's my grandson in the picture with the second Air Hog Titan I built. I built 2 hogs using 3/9gr servos, Used brushless motor and 1000 11.1v lipo. Used 2 pieces 3mm carbon fiber hollow rods for the wings and glued wings in the fuse. This one I added blue foam to make elevators and ailerons. Didn't cut them out of the plane Just added the blue foam in the space where the wings had the cut outs. The elevators I added two pieces of blue foam.Cost was $60. Not including the FM TX

[@rcfreakamit]

Very nice! I love these cheap plane conversion projects :)

[@snowvalleyrat]

I've litterally done the exact same thing! Same plane and everything. Got them from wal-mart! They fly great! My dad and I have 2 of them now.

[@SnapPunchRobert]

I just picked me up one of those. In process of building too. Waiting to get electrical parts. Great Video, Thanks

[@willwinn8559]

Great job 😀👍

[@Buttercup7304]

AWSOME AIRPLANE!

[@sr633]

Hey, Good job all way around,, and a little luck too ! Nice.

[@TheSuperherbie]

Nice Work!

[@yamaha4759]

i love your videos dude... so informative and if i can do this with my sons, we'll be having good time bonding as father and sons... good job bro. God bless your heart..

[@just1moregun]

Thanks for sharing. Nice video. When my Phase 3 F-16 crashes I'll use the parts to build this!

[@jasonmarquette]

Awesome video!

[@catamaranman333]

Thanks for doing another great instructional video!

[@RoboTekno]

Your videos are great! :D Keep the great ideas coming :)

[@compamac]

Really good job!

[@martyisnuts]

Very cool stuff love your planes. Had my first flight today with the apprentice and crashed it right into a fence, made a good mess of it..hope to see more homemade planes from you,you do awesome work on them. Beware of fences that jump out in front of planes!

[@dewaynewhite2928]

I'm late in the years on this but nice job on your plane, I love it

[@wpockl]

Excellent conversion! I did up a tiny little glider with parts from a avion io, never got a flight video of it though, just a quick "walk around" when it was done.

[@dewaynewhite2928]

creative my friend I like it

[@0611930024838]

looks great

[@RECK_Adventures]

That cess-nah turned out amazing

[@malikispaki07]

nice work, excellent. I thought bout doin somethin like this years ago, but was a kid with no money, damn, you got to it before i could :(

[@65Wildkat]

Again, THANK YOU! I have learned more about how to make a DIY Plane in the 20 min. of your videos then I have in weeks of looking on the internet! This Air Hog seems to be a great starter plane for me. $10 plus a investment of a decent radio and reciever along with the hardware seems to me the way to go. If I want to build a different plane all I have to do is just remove the hardware from one and put it on the next one. I hope that you will do a few videos on the servos and "DIY" on them????

[@26041970]

you guys are so lucky in the USA, we don't have nothing like that so cheap in are shops,best price I can find in the UK is £24 with post .

[@TcrRCvideos]

Just built one of these tonight! Just like you I saw this plane and had enough electronics to get it in the air, mine flies pretty well, but It's very underpowered I underestimated weight...

[@agredo]

second time I saw this video after many years, very nice

[@justynsweeting]

I'm seeing that Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II in the background man. awesome

[@h7oslo]

Good vid! 10 buck airframe is hard to beat considering it's good looking shape!

[@TheDivino21]

Dude that's awesome

[@Rladhem]

cool stuff !

[@JNJSTUFF]

Nicely done... I should have kept my air hog lol I thought those things only fly on commercials.

[@ShinDomoh1]

This is awesome! I was just looking at some foam gliders yesterday... wondering could it be transformed... new project here I come! Thanks!!!

[@InTheFleshInc]

This is a kick ass video, I like the tutorial good job.

[@dadoo667]

Nice, I saw the same plane and thought about converting it -as well. Thanks for the info.

[@blargh1234]

just got this yesterday at Ralphs for 9 bucks for my nephew, didn't even realize it was going to be so good.

[@romanoguttadauro9563]

Great Video inspiration for young and old fliers modeling at its best AAAA+++++

[@rcguy1457]

CG is very important as RCpro Driver said. This is a great build video! I wanted to use a EDF myself, but the noise is a problem where I fly. I have flown an RC Titan powered by a brushless with a 7x4 prop on the front (gotta cut off LOTS of nose to maintain CG.). It was a blast to fly, good loops, rolls, and inverteds, and I was FEARLESS with it (only $10 afer all) - but took a little too much risk a few times(another story). FRONT-PROP-BUILD: (a CG story) Remmove plane from packaging and assemble. Take a 4" nail with you to test glide and stick the nail into the fuse where needed to get a good glide. The plane is so light it needs some weight anyway, so the nail is needed. Now, with the nail still in place, balance the plane over a pencil laid on a table and mark the pencil's location on the bottom of the plane That is your CG. Mount all the control surfaces and servos in place, then loosely install the battery and ESC. Then once again, pencil-on-table, plane\'s GC previously marked resting on the pencil, balance the plane by placement of the assembled motor, mount and prop. The position of the motor mount tells you where to cut off the nose to mount the motor.. It is best to err on the side of nose heavy of course, cuz you can easilly cut a little more off (Hey, it\s only $10 foam!). Addition of CF wing spar was not something I did at first, but after not-missing a tree and knocking a wing off, a spar was added to help "heal" the break. I used the knife-blade attachment on an electric soldering gun for making the channel in the wings. My spar did not go out to the wing tips, but rather went right through the fuse and about 1/3 out into eash wing. This bird has a fair amount of dihedral built in so one-piece straight through is possible. I used a hot coathanger wire (like this video) to go through the fuse.

[@FlatRangeOperator]

start selling those badboys

[@electronixTech]

Good ideas. Thanks!

[@RCCFanatic]

I'm pretty sure that's the last thing air hogs though of when they were selling these to kids! Nice job!!!

[@thecirinos]

just amazing.

[@electronixTech]

Thanks Word Reet. I have just made a foam cutter a few days ago using a number 13 guitar string that is about 30" long and I took a 12 VDC 1.2 Amp power adapter transformer and remounted it in an old PC power supply case to keep it running cool using the built in cooling fan. I will be posting some video of what I made later. Thanks for the tips.

[@kanarimentos7056]

good job

[@Thedaveyht3]

Sick Getting an Airhog titan!! use all the electronics from salvaged crashed edf!! Thanks for the up-load and all the hard work. Are you a welder I do fabrication and welding too! Thanks again for the up-load subbed!

[@mitchelmitchel7570]

Nice movie about it :9 i like the way you do it ;)

[@999benhonda]

I did the same basic thing with a Raptor foam glider. mine isn't as pretty as yours cause the fuse is thinner so I couldn't fit everything inside it. I also used foam board to add control surfaces to the tail. I found the CG of the glider, then added all the RC gear while maintaining the same CG. You get the fun of a EDF without any sharp stall issues.

[@Trikunjs]

wooow this is really really great..i was thinking of making one a few weeks back..but the prices of the equpment made me change my mind..but thena fter watching this..im gnna make one :D

[@wolfenstien13]

wow, i had the same idea when i saw that very same plane at Walmart, that be a fine plane.

[@deankelley2618]

Thank you love the vids keep up the good work ..

[@mbunds]

I wish my hands were as steady as yours are!

[@roadstar499]

Excellent video...Its funny a couple of weeks ago i saw that plane and was going to convert it to rc also...after watching your video it would be very easy to do..I would remove dehedral and make it a pusher prop 100 mph jet put a ntm 28 36- 2700 kv apc 6x4 3s 2200 mah 60 amp esc...

[@wordreet]

My Gunson's charger has 12 and 6 volt plus slow and fast charge. It may be possible to have a dimmer switch between your transformer and the mains. So you can back off the power for a shorter cutter. I also use a hot knife, just a 3x2x100mm piece of aluminium (off cut from my workplace) in my soldering iron. Also used a hot ' U ' shape cutter in a soldering gun to scoop out a solid foam fuselage..

[@drumfun1210]

Thanks again, blessings to you!

[@exiledconnections]

looks great man i bought the same plane months ago for the very same idea was just running it over in my mind and still debating

[@djnemesis82pluss1877]

thats badass

[@Pendulum_Swings]

where did u get the mortor, controller, and other stuff?

[@UnlimitedVertical]

The butane is a good idea. I just used an old soldering iron to carve out the battery and servo areas on mine.

[@TheConakry2]

love it

[@DmitriyNotYourDad]

I used one of these and flew only with elevons with great success

[@GoLeePro427]

Bravo!

[@jomunoz]

thanks for uploading, I was wondering if you could do a video on how you setup your servos. They are well placed and look very slick.

[@k1ttys]

"the old ones back in the day" i remember those, those were the one that look like a commercial airline jet and you could changed the flight path by adjusting the elevator. the only mad i was able to do on it is turn it to a jet lol kinda i would put a bottle rocket inside and see it fly but then the it would explode and i did this in the early 90s anyways nice mode i may try this out myself.

[@anthonyjr7502]

Awesome

[@yamaha4759]

since u have dihedral wing u probably be good with only the rudder and the elevators.. just saying i ma try this on my broken 3 channel 745 cessna.. it landed on the streets and a car rolled over it .. so the fuselage was gone. i have the electronics to be use.. good job on your videos man..

[@MrDupperman]

I just bought my son a glider just like the one you have, we are new to the RC world and I was wondering can you put the measurements of your aileron cuts and the size of the battery and esc motor placement and how you attached it to the plane. i hope i didnt ask to much..great job by the way

[@electronixTech]

I find I don't need a dimmer control with my transformer because it barely puts out enough heat for the 30" wire and doesn't seem to overheat the wire on a 7.5 inch bow I made for small cutting jobs either. I may end up designing another power supply with a higher power transformer and a dimmer control so I can get a better variety of heat settings. I was also thinking about using a soldering gun like you are to scoop out the smaller foam. I am looking around for it now.

[@TheNorMan121]

hi i would love to know the name on all the parts in this build so i can build my own 10$ plane

[@mk5455]

Thank you TINMAN for this excellent tutorial. These gliders have been around for at least 30 years. But until I saw this video awhile back the RC idea never crossed my mind. I want to do at least two. The trainer and then the cool one. Could you steer us in the direction of low $$$ RC stuff that will work with your creation? Also, the power plant?

[@AndroidUmair]

U r just awesome !!!

[@santatigerclaus]

excellent rc conversion- good ascent angle -your right on about the 130 watts or more, i tried a 100 watt 2600kv bl and it was too weak with its recommended 4x6- (old hi wing trainer with tricycle gear)- ive been doing rc since fall '09 and now want to ROG so am putting a 200 watt 2600kv on it - should be power to not death stall - more and more often im seeing claimed watts on BLs for sale- this lets me know if the motors got the power for my plane

[@theaustralianis]

wow they have cool stuff in shops in america. It would be hard to find something like that even in a hobby shop here in australia.

[@rangersammy]

This video lives on into 2022!

[@anthonydegrazio4901]

awesome

[@7272nighthawk]

awsome I am about to to something like that I have an old storm launcher radio and servo I plan to mount on a big glider body

[@drumfun1210]

Hey Timan, thanks for all of your videos. I concur with one of the previous posters about how much info I have gained from your videos. I am about ready to go from the simulator to a trainer and I think the Airhog would be a good start. I have a few questions if you don't mind. 1. What size motor would you recommend to make this a reguler prop plane? 2. Am I correct that you do not have a rudder on yours? Did you end up covering/fiberglassing the plane? $ Where do you purchase your carbon fiber?