Airbus A318

[adriantan]

Kelvin, Happy Chinese New Year to you too! Glad to hear you've successfully maidened your A318. Looks lovely! Can't wait to see it in action once you've fully fine tuned the aircraft. Get that nose gear repaired asap! Going to paint this baby ?

[kamikaze]

hi adrian,

yes, but the problem is i can't get the landing gear over here now, are you going to singapore? maybe can help me to buy

[kamikaze]

At last, successful maiden.... look nice and real.  will post some video soon... will build another bigger A318 base on this design...

[kamikaze]

My Next project, started already, size bigger, here is the picture to compare

on ducted fan



the Ducted fan left hand side is EDF50, and the right hand side is EDF68, look big.... was tot want to use the DEF75, but is over bugdet....

[adriantan]

dude... your building skills are superb! I love the way how the ducted fan looks like. I assume you scratch built the ducts & etc? from a drink bottle? let's have a look at how the finished plane (the small one) looks like. Any new pictures?

What batteries do you have in the small plane and what batteries are you going to have in your new bigger one? I am going to use 3s1p on my F15, which uses twin EDF 64 ... so I guess that's smaller than your 75s.

ps. Make an AirAsia mock up and sell it to them They might buy it for promos & etc... ask them for sponsorship hahah. And give me some commission since I suggested it ok...

Catch up with you soon k.

[kamikaze]

thanks adrian, i'm also learning form others, will post some pic and video soon
as the video with my friend... the small one fly like real airliner slow and steady... look real

for my small A318, i use only 800mAh 3S1P battery, actually this plane can use the 1000mAh, and for the big A318, i will use 2600mah 3S2P( 1300mAh 3S1P X2) and for your F15, better use big capacity, at least 2200mAh . but the battery will get hot as the stock motor consume of 22amp per motor, that mean is about 44amp...

P/S: yes, both ducted fan drink bottle is 100plus

[adriantan]

One thing I'd like to know is how did you make the front of your ducted fan unit? It looks almost too perfect.. the circle, the thickness and all! When you say the small one flew scale like speed.. that means its really slow? Like about to fall out of the sky? That's how real jet liners look... about to stall like that. hahah.

hmm I got 1800 and also 2180 batteries... so ya.. I'll probably try and use those. I hope I don't burn the batteries. I heard it can sustain without problems. I hope mine flies much much faster than scale speed though

[kamikaze]

many sanding work on the ducted to make it look nice, and need more time to think....
 

[LimAhPek]

many sanding work on the ducted to make it look nice, and need more time to think....
 

You really using up a lot of brain juice for this plane huh..... Bet it will look damn nice later.. keep it up...!

[kamikaze]

Hi Lim,

Thanks! working on it damn slow as need to think about how to reinforce the main wing and the structure build, hope can get an idea soon, will post some pic later

[kamikaze]

Two off days has past manage to finish up the rudder and elevator on the end part of fuselarge......some pic update...

on fuselarge


after covering the fuselarge


body end part


Elevator


Rudder


fully cover the end part body


finish for today....


she looks pretty??


 

[LimAhPek]

Hi Lim,

Thanks! working on it damn slow as need to think about how to reinforce the main wing and the structure build, hope can get an idea soon, will post some pic later

You building another one? I thought you have one already.. And i suppose this this is the second one...

[kamikaze]

yes Lim, i have the little A318, and it fly well, but now i working on a bigger one... You can see the pic, later will compare the small and the big one, both also A318

[adriantan]

I'm loving the size already!

[shutay]

Wow, that really looks excellent. But you didn't have any photos of your maiden?

Re: Selling to AirAsia - maybe instead you can try to get sponsorship from them for your airbus. Get you to appear at all sorts of promos. They do that in Europe and US, but I am not sure if there are any big enough events here to do that.