I FINALLY "flew" my 3D Printed Airplane!

It's been a LONG time and well overdue. I finally flew my 3D Printed plane for the first time. It turned into quite an adventure.
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[@gavinthomas214]

Honestly a heroic effort. You Miss 100% of the Shots You Don't Take.

[@mszoomy]

Awww poor plane, I'll miss you. But hey, you got out there, you did it and it was entertaining for sure.

[@johnhersom6002]

Also, my drone has been my best friend when crashing an airplane...I live around cornfields and I have put a few planes down during mid summer when the corn is 8ft+ tall. I recall a couple years ago, literally flying about 20 drone recon flights to find a plane that i lost orientation of at night and it took off a mile and a half away. I've only been unable to recover one...and that's because I'm genius and I printed the plane and spray painted it in camo :D

[@kschaffer6978]

Sorry for the loss of all your hard work

[@bwselectronic]

Maybe next time you go looking if you have a battery hedge trimmer or brush cutter might make it a little easier. Even maybe a machete

[@colincampbell3679]

Maybe set up a chip on board to monitor the control signal from the controller, If the sign is lost the chip program turns off the engine and deploys a parachute You fitted the top of the wind that stays fold flat until it is unlocked?

[@DanielleBryant-w6f]

Oh, my friend … like AJR said, adventure is out there, so why are we in here?? You got out and did what my dad used to do-but he was never happier than building and wrecking planes❤

[@mikeehuber]

Go to your local flying club and let them buddy box you! Plus they can check the CG and everything when you took off the landing gear. Your CG certainly changed

[@mikeehuber]

The other suggestion is to allow the maiden flight to be done by that Ace of an old man so that he can trim it in just so and make it easy for you to fly. You'll just have to assure him that if he breaks it, you'll print another one

[@3DPrintSOS]

Haha this is sound advice. One that has been given to me by many men wiser than I. In a stubborn flash of ignorance, I have yet to take this sound advice. haha

[@bwselectronic]

Maybe an air tag or some kind of location tag

[@willbrown8928]

Damn bro, time to print another!

[@3DPrintSOS]

That’s what I’m thinkin

[@Gryfang451]

Yep, CG... Added a new meaning to tail dragger... I would recommend a cheap foam beginner kit, like a hobby store one. Sims are good too, and lots of time there can keep a lot of mistakes from happening. I don't know if you could simulate what you did to the plane though. Flying a pendulum isn't fun!

[@3DPrintSOS]

I got tens of hours of sim under my belt. This was an off-the-cuff, spur-of-the-moment error. All I needed to do was move the damn battery forward and the crisis would have been averted. I just got too excited and acted without thinking :/

[@AndrewAHayes]

Maybe an additon to the firmware to sound off the plane if it is powered up without any action for say 20 minutes would be a good thing, considering how cheap GPS modules are, I am surprised you didn't include one, however, hindsight is a great thing!

[@3DPrintSOS]

Lotttts of errors that I just didn’t think about. Haha. Hindsight is much clearer. Haha

[@giuseppenoto86]

Yo Fedor its a bummer about the plane but the vid was def entertaining. It happens to the best of us.

[@3DPrintSOS]

Im glad I could at least provide some entertainment. You could imagine the disappointment of losing it after all this time of waiting. Oh well, I’ll be back.

[@giuseppenoto86]

@@3DPrintSOS oh yes I’m sure

[@Nigel_Tufnel_11]

Terrible "heart will go on" music during the flight was 👌

[@kennethdavis4982]

Excellent try on the flight, that’s way to bumpy for the plastic landing gear, need the wire landing gear or some springy printed landing gear.

[@johnhersom6002]

This feeling is all too familiar...I've been flying for 20 years, and you just never know what you will get when you 3d print a plane...I've had good success with eclipson planes like the EBW Blackwing and Prandtl. I have printed probably a dozen planes and only 1 or 2 have only made it for a second flight....Even if a flight goes perfectly well, even the softest landing can tear these things apart. Good job for at least trying your hardest!

[@naasking]

Out of curiosity, in what material did you 3D print the plane?

[@3DPrintSOS]

@naasking extreame pla by iiidmax.

[@johnhersom6002]

@@naasking I've done everything from lightweight pla, pla, PETG, ASA-Aero....usually the middle section is printed as PLA/PETG for strength

[@naasking]

@@johnhersom6002 Thanks, ASA aero sounds interesting, although I'm a little skeptical of their claimed numbers. There are some tough plain old ASA filaments out there that I was thinking of using for drone frames and the like.

[@trugbilddrachen]

While not the outcome you wanted, still great learning experience. Throwing was intact so that speaks for the pla.

[@3DRundown]

What in the Poison Ivy are you doing in that brush. 😆😆😆😆 Next time place a TILE or, AIR TAG in the Plane. Press F for Respect

[@3DPrintSOS]

AIRTAG would have been genius, dude. Why are things always so obvious LATER. Cmon Gregg, teach me these things earlier! haha

[@thatguymakesthings]

well it had to be done sad it ended this way

[@iceman7438]

If it hasn't been said Maybe next time put a air tag in it lol. Kinda like a black box

[@3DPrintSOS]

Great suggestion.

[@MrWaalkman]

Yeah, when the gear came off, I was thinking that you were going to have a tiger by the tail.

[@3DPrintSOS]

Hindsight is aways so damn clear. :(

[@MrWaalkman]

@@3DPrintSOS I'm surprised that you got as far as you did. The other thing, and I'm sure that you were trying it, would be to move the controls and listen for the servos moving while you were looking for the fuselage. Definitely a long shot though. I will say that your radio gear is a heck of a lot better that what we had. I still have an old school pre-frequency change here at the house. That's a pretty old radio. Probably my biggest faux-pas was when I launched my sailplane without securing the cover over my radio gear. Not only did it pitch my battery out on launch, therefore switching itself into free-flight mode, I also got first-hand experience on the flight characteristics of an excessively tail-heavy aircraft. Not that I had anything to do with controlling my plane at that point. So, not hindsight per se... :)

[@3DPrintSOS]

@@MrWaalkman haha Oh wow. Yeah that sounds like a simular flight experience haha. I was running the new ELRS on this plane so the radio signal was good for….MILES. sadly.

[@MrWaalkman]

@@3DPrintSOS IIRC, that was it for that day. Oh well... :) Does your radio transmit its GPS position? I remember you mentioning something along those lines.

[@3DPrintSOS]

@@MrWaalkman sadly no, but I think on the next one, I will be adding a gps function. It’s cheap enough now a days.

[@DronePsyche]

Next time put an Apple AirTag on your plane or drone.

[@nzavon]

Damn :-( is GPS a option for the next craft ?

[@f1hotrod527]

I’m………..disappointed 😂. I would like to find some glass half full things about this experience but, I have nothing. Yes I know I am being a jerk😂. This is still the best 3D printing channel on KZbin. Also, 3DprintSOS somehow made Boeing look good and competent.

[@3DPrintSOS]

LOLOL. I dont think you’re even half as disappointed as me. haha

[@jeffthorson625]

i would try to make and osprey i thank that would cool but it might be a hard build

[@Speedgaming802]

should of put a airtag in the plane