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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainObvious View Post
    That wing looks very nice, what is the weight per dcm^2?

    I've been working on a 3D printed airplane for a couple months, now it's ready to have the electronics installed and fly it.... once I can get some free time for that. :P

    You can check the plane out here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:272478 It would be great to share some ideas.
    Wauuu nice question. Weight vs volume is an important factor for UAV materials and shapes. This wing is the third version because of the weight. I have a table with interesting values:WING TABLE.jpg

    About your 3d printed plane, what are the main features? or some photo?

    Thank you

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jonatan View Post
    Wauuu nice question. Weight vs volume is an important factor for UAV materials and shapes. This wing is the third version because of the weight. I have a table with interesting values:WING TABLE.jpg

    About your 3d printed plane, what are the main features? or some photo?

    Thank you
    The image is too small to read any values, do you have a higher resolution one?

    There's a thread about the plane here with description and a few photos of the airframe: http://3dprintboard.com/showthread.php?2693-Fully-printed-UAV-FPV-plane

    I was asking about the wings because that's the heaviest part of the plane in my design, they weight almost as much as the rest of the airframe combined... which is not so good.
    Going from memory the wings are around 190 grams in weight and the fuselage plus tail is 200 grams; that's for a 98cm wing with a chord of 15cm, that adds up to around 14 dm^2 so on average the wings weight 14 grams per square decimeter. That's with a 0.4mm thickness, I think at 0.3mm they would still be strong enough and of course save 25% weight.

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