Meat Tray Fokker DR1 Triplane in flight

Homemade r/c airplane made from foam meat trays, bamboo skewers, foam coffee cup (cowling), colored with red magic marker. GWS IPS Motor and micro gear, big LiPo battery in the nose for balance gives 40 minute flights. Rudder, elevator, throttle. More details, building hints, & close-up photos on rcgroups.com. (search the rcgroups threads for MEAT TRAY DR1 and you will find a post by riderfj1200, that's me!)

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[toolbaggers]

the baron requests ailerons please for version 2

[sonex413]

@toolbaggers Yawohl mein Baron! und perhaps ein brushless motor!

[airlinerdude12]

if it flies for 40 minutes i'll eat my cessna.

[sonex413]

@airlinerdude12 Sadly I no longer have this model, it finally just wore out after years of use and hundreds of flights! However it really was able to fly for 40 minutes at "maximum endurance" throttle setting. Full throttle endurance was perhaps half that. Don't forget it had a 900 ma 2-cell LiPo battery stuffed in the (very short) nose so it would balance properly! There is more info on this model at rcgroups.com on the "scratchbuilt foamies" forum. Find it by searching "meat tray DR1" there.

[shimon174b]

Excellent, excellent job!!!! -it flies very nice.

[sonex413]

@shimon174b  Thanks!

[toolbaggers]

the baron requests ailerons please!

[airlinerdude12]

@sonex413

yeah i understand, from the pics it looked like you were using a ni-cad?

lipos are great arn't they :D

[Tsavah]

Really, really like it! Must do project like this.

[TrOuTster5]

Very cool. I've still got some GWS indoor power stuff left...off to RCGroups. Thanks.