https://www.wamqld.com/forum/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:46:36 +0000 MyBB https://www.wamqld.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=28 Thu, 27 Feb 2020 05:07:42 +0000 https://www.wamqld.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=28 Basic Aeronautics. Watch for posts, and please reply to any questions you may have, to what eventuates!]]> Basic Aeronautics. Watch for posts, and please reply to any questions you may have, to what eventuates!]]> https://www.wamqld.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=21 Sat, 17 Nov 2018 08:24:54 +0000 https://www.wamqld.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=21
Essentially, I'm working on a cross between the X-29 and the X-36 optimised for small-scale flight. It will have the wings of an X-29 (forward-swept with close-coupled canard) and the yaw stabilisation of the X-36 (no tail, use split ailerons for yaw). I will go a step further and add thrust vectoring for pitch and yaw so it can hover and perform crazy maneuvers like the Kulbit. A quadcopter-style flight controller will be used to stabilise it since it's unstable in all axes.

It should be very efficient and fast but still ultra-agile. Hopefully, I'll even be able to race it against quads on tight FPV race tracks but still put on trick shows while flying LOS

It sounds crazy but I think it can work. Armed with an array of free professional-grade CAD and CFD software, I think I can handle it. Here's the early concept images for the top view, wing cross-section and ducting cross-section:


Next step is the design of the EDF inlet and exhaust. I'll draw it up on Fusion360 then analyse it in a simulated wind tunnel on SimScale. All the software I'm using is completely free on the condition that I don't make significant profit off it ]]>
Essentially, I'm working on a cross between the X-29 and the X-36 optimised for small-scale flight. It will have the wings of an X-29 (forward-swept with close-coupled canard) and the yaw stabilisation of the X-36 (no tail, use split ailerons for yaw). I will go a step further and add thrust vectoring for pitch and yaw so it can hover and perform crazy maneuvers like the Kulbit. A quadcopter-style flight controller will be used to stabilise it since it's unstable in all axes.

It should be very efficient and fast but still ultra-agile. Hopefully, I'll even be able to race it against quads on tight FPV race tracks but still put on trick shows while flying LOS

It sounds crazy but I think it can work. Armed with an array of free professional-grade CAD and CFD software, I think I can handle it. Here's the early concept images for the top view, wing cross-section and ducting cross-section:


Next step is the design of the EDF inlet and exhaust. I'll draw it up on Fusion360 then analyse it in a simulated wind tunnel on SimScale. All the software I'm using is completely free on the condition that I don't make significant profit off it ]]> https://www.wamqld.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=19 Sat, 08 Sep 2018 02:18:42 +0000 https://www.wamqld.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=19 Photo's are a bit blurred but not as blurred as the copter is now!!
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  IMG_0273 (Small).jpg (Size: 47.09 KB / Downloads: 1405) ]]> https://www.wamqld.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 08:38:03 +0000 https://www.wamqld.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10    WOW !!! the new  website works so nicely.. 10/10 ]]>    WOW !!! the new  website works so nicely.. 10/10 ]]>