Flying Sunday August 6, 2017

[Michael]

The weather and wind conditions were much better than forecast.

Gill brought out a 3D-printed Spitfire. It flew well, but sustained some damage on landing. It was really interesting, and I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this soon.

[Bigstik]

Where was the Spitfire printed?

[Michael]

One of our members bought/downloaded the file for the model, then printed out parts measuring no more than 20 cm wide, on his 3D printer, and then glued/assembled the parts, and then installed the equipment.

[Gil.E]

Since I plan to fix the "minor damage" (fuselage split into two halves) I might as well start a (re)build thread for 3D printed models elsewhere on the forum.

By the way, this wasn't the maiden flight. The plane was maidened back in May and flew well 4 or 5 times since then. Yesterday was only the half-maiden flight with a freshly printed set of wings. The original wings were completely deformed after I left the plane in the car on a sunny day. 
 

[vicwhit]

Did you get the files from Thingiverse or the original from MyMiniFactory? What type of filament did you use?

[Candu]

Interesting project. A couple of questions:
- What kind of filament did you use to print it?
- Total hours required to print all the parts?

[Gil.E]

Vic, Frank,
I tried to sum up the answers here:
http://temac.ca/smf/index.php/topic,6271.0.html