DR-1 Triplane RC Build & Fly - Guillows kit 204
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2023
- Last year I built the Guillows DR-1 balsa model kit and had fun flying it with my brother and getting slomo footage of it too.
The electronics came from an older UMX Pitts from Eflite. It is a standard 2-cell brushless setup with linear servos.
I made a servo tray and motor mount to support the electronics and carbon rods with steel wire ends connect the servos to the control surfaces.
I covered it with the included red tissue. I used glue stick to apply it, water mist to shrink it and then Tamiya spray clear coat in order to seal it. I used the included decals, and painted the plastics with Aluminum color.
The engine detail was 3D printed on an Ender-3 and painted black with silver weathering.
My initial setup for these flights was a bit too tail heavy, and on this gusty day I found takeoffs easy but landings difficult. regardless, I made a handful of successful flights with it and it's still in 1 piece.
I think it ended up at 130g or 4.6oz, and may fly better with some expo on the aileron channel.
If I revisit it I will add a small amount of nose weight, the missing cabane rigging/cables, machine gun, and a pilot with scarf 😎
the music is a silly MIDI rendition of 'Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron' by 'The Royal Guardsmen' - Наука та технологія
we are proud of you chiko...
Wow, the scale look the tissue gives at that size is just amazing. Beautiful job!
Good job
Fantastic video! Oh the stories I could tell about the Guillows models and a lifetime of enjoyment. Thanks! And btw, it is really hard to get a good looking plane from these Guillows kits, you nailed it. Very beautiful Triplane.
Thank you! It's the third stick-and-tissue plane I've built, after a more basic Guillows and a Dumas kit. I'm having great fun building these things and learning a lot. as a kid i could never successfully complete one of these. I will say that laser-cut parts are a huge help, requiring little finish work. CA glue & accelerator makes building go much faster. Modern RC electronics are a marvel of miniaturization. I have a handful of kits on my shelf waiting to be built, will post when I do.
that was a fun vid. thank you.
Very well done. I like the theme appropriate music and sound effects too. Very entertaining.
35 years ago I ran plans through the office Xerox, enlarging it to a 5 foot wingspan. It is hanging from the ceiling above me now. I never covered it, so it remains a beautiful skeleton.
Very cool…
Very nicely done! It flies as good as it looks. I'm impressed with how light it came out especially for a Guillow's kit. You seem to have the CG spot on which can be a challenge with the short nose of the DR-1. Beautiful airplane. 😎👍
Nice! I bought one a year ago. So looking forward to building it :)
It is an enjoyable build! others have had good luck as well with free-flights. If you RC convert it, remember to stage the electronics far forward because these models tend to be tail heavy once you add control surfaces horns and pushrods way back there.
@@chrismofer Thanks. Yeah I remember a Nieuport and a Camel that never flew right. I couldn’t bear adding lead to a plane :)
Excellent. Trouble is there’s nothing for the so-called experts to comment on !
Maybe the CG is a bit too aft?
Ha ha! "Extreme Richtoffen maneuverability!" Your cat-like reflexes are equally impressive! 5 stars!
Very nice build - excellent control in the air. The real thing was obviously devastating at the time, when in the hands of a skilled pilot. Very cool take off and landing video.. nice one fellas.
That plane looks awesome yo
Thank you for taking the trouble to add the audiosync on the first take-off!
Nice bro!
Fantastic vid great build great production could eatch vids
Nice job building & flying .. :) .. at this small scale, people mention that things are trickier.
Good job and a great flight.
And the video editing is great.
The airplane I made is heavy at 195g, so I can't fly it slowly.
If you make it light like you, it will fly well.
Really good work. i think small one is much difficult to control. thank you for sharing this video.
Like this all day !!!!!!!!!!!!! Please do some other's famtastic!!!!!😊
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed! I have many more kits in mind to build next and will make videos about them :)
Nicely done🎉
Absolutely brilliant, looks really good.
I built this one and Stuka , P47 SE5 many others back in the 70s . Cox engines with Kraft Radios.
Very nice!
brilliant!
I just started working on this. Literally started building the top wing on Sunday. I've been planning to make it RC and have been reading what others have done and finding a receiver and servos to make it work. I read that getting the cg in the right place takes a lot of weight in the nose so I'm planning to put all the radio gear and battery as far forward as possible. I was going to build 3 channel to save weight with servos in the wings, but it looks like you did go with ailerons. Nice covering job. Hopefully mine comes out as well as yours did. Thanks for uploading!
That's exactly what I recommend, if I did it again I would place the receiver/ESC as far forward as will fit, and servos not far behind that. I did put the battery into the front when flying. The dr1 was designed around a relatively heavy engine hence why it's mounted so close to the front of the wing. 3 channel should work fine, it does come with nice ailerons and the only difficulty with adding linear servos is where to hide the wires thru the ribs and down the cabane. Obviously from my landings I've learned to not pull back and slow down too much or it gets tippy and stalls. I didn't do much to try to keep the weight down on this other than choosing compact electronics. I used glue gussets here and there and music wire to strengthen the landing gear. But I feel that a little extra weight helps with stability and fighting the wind. I build for RC heavier than I would for free flight.
@@chrismofer I'm planning to get one of those all in one boards with the linear servos on the same board as the receiver. It has a plug for the motor and a couple for servos. Dancing wings has a power kit that includes all that plus a geared motor and prop. You have the battery access by the cockpit?
Pretty bold flying for a maiden.
@@JombieMann sounds like a good way to go. I used a 2s brushless system but it would work great on 1s with geared brushed setup, and lighter overall. The board of a UMX radian is DSMX and 3 channel and has SAFE mode that will pretty aggressively try to keep it level, or the board from a sport cub, same but with aileron channels. but spektrum all in one boards are generally $60 to $80 alone. For that money I prefer to buy a used busted up UMX and scavenge the electronics, as I did here. I put the battery centered over the bottom wing thru the cockpit. can't remember how I restrained it but ideally you'd have a little panel there with velcro or something. Some of the flying is bold but mostly it's just me failing to be any smoother 😛
@@chrismofer What are you using for hinges? I was thinking about using the fibreglass hinge material but the surfaces are so thin I don't think that would work.
For the rudder I carefully slit the balsa and inserted a nylon hinge Dubro part 116. for ailerons and elevator I used long pieces of hinge tape Dubro 916 on the undersides. pictures here where you can see that imgur.com/a/OgJ9cPs
more recently I have had luck with fiberglass hinges but I cut them down into 4ths or so and put 3 or 4 per surface and you still have to carefully slit and hollow out the wood to fit it but it's worth it for the best looking longest lasting model.
NIIIIICE 👌🏻
i''ve made the scout and neiuport RC both flew very well
good to hear! I have now built but not yet flown the morse scout. it has a huge top wing.
Nice job! I need smaller electronics 😊
Looks and flies great. What motor is in that?
I think it's a BL180 3000kv. Taken from the original UMX Pitts 2s system.
What kind of motor?? Is it a brushless?
EFLUM180BLB, a 3000kv brushless motor. It is the motor from the original UMX Pitts S1S from Eflite. I took the main board, motor, and pushrods and control horns from the crashed UMX bird.
Nice build and rc conversion.Just curious,where did you installed the battery? I could not see it.
I set the battery in the pilots seat or just behind the firewall, it sort of jams up front.
Fantastic! How do you go about choosing a motor and prop for a given model like this?
In this case I took the electronics from a UMX Pitts, which is about the size of the DR-1 kit. Many UMX props fit the same adapter. I use a smaller prop with more pitch for speed and a larger prop with less pitch for 3D or slow flight. I think this prop came from the UMX Yak 54 180 3D. I also sanded the corners of the prop to round them a bit to look less modern.
Did you spray painted the tissue covering?
the kit comes with red tissue and decals, I used light coat of spray clear cote TS-13 to seal the tissue rather than 'dope' like the old days. The cowl comes white and was made aluminum color with TS-17 gloss aluminum paint.
Really enjoyed your build and flight video.
For me... Too tedious and time consuming to build. Too risky to fly after all that work.
I was nervous to fly it after all that work and stick and tissue planes are very delicate. But I know if I can build it in the first place I can also fix it if it breaks. Building these takes time but for me it is relaxing.
@@chrismofer I used to build them, rubber band powered, in the fifties... I'm 79 years old now. I don't remember a single one lasting more than four or five flights. 😞
.049 control line balsa wood planes lasted longer but not much. 😊
What size battery did you use. Thanks
Probably a 300mAh or 280mAh 2s. It is the same type of battery used by the 2-cell UMX airplanes from Horizon.
You guys went whipping by on the donor airplane that you took the electronics out of. Would you be so kind as to letting me know what the plain was that donated the electronics? thank you
The original 2 cell UMX 'pitts s1s' from Eflite. I usually use Eflite UMX electronics for these types of builds.
@@chrismofer thank you
Nicely done🎉