SignManiac
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I saw a post the other day about using coroplast for a solar heating panel and thought I would share my idea for using it.
My business partner and I just missed out on entering the Red Bull Flugtag event here in Tampa. We wanted to build a homemade human powered plane for the event and thought it would a cool idea to build a real plane from coroplast. We have several thousand drop cuts that measure approximately 2' x 4' and have been looking for a way to use all of this material. On that note we came up with the ACME-AIR plane manufacturing company. We are going to build inexpensive kit planes for those who want to fly on a budget.
Using 10mil coro and some 6mil we are engineering a real bi-plane that my partner will fly. He holds a commercial and multi-engine pilots license. The photos shown are the basic wing structure that I designed and cut on our Multicam router table. We have the completed wing structure built and ready to cover in Saran Wrap. We used a lot of hot glue and the wing section is really strong.
Next week we start on the fuselage section and hopefully we should have the plane completed and ready to fly in a couple of months. Not to worry, we are both expert skydivers with many thousands of jumps between us in case of a major screw up.
If we are lucky we might get sponsored by Interplast who manufactures coroplast and 3M for the double sided tape, Arrow for the hot melt glue gun, Glad Seran wrap and last but not least, Heineken beer for the inspiration!
Here are a few photos of our progress. We have about six hours into the wings at this point.
My business partner and I just missed out on entering the Red Bull Flugtag event here in Tampa. We wanted to build a homemade human powered plane for the event and thought it would a cool idea to build a real plane from coroplast. We have several thousand drop cuts that measure approximately 2' x 4' and have been looking for a way to use all of this material. On that note we came up with the ACME-AIR plane manufacturing company. We are going to build inexpensive kit planes for those who want to fly on a budget.
Using 10mil coro and some 6mil we are engineering a real bi-plane that my partner will fly. He holds a commercial and multi-engine pilots license. The photos shown are the basic wing structure that I designed and cut on our Multicam router table. We have the completed wing structure built and ready to cover in Saran Wrap. We used a lot of hot glue and the wing section is really strong.
Next week we start on the fuselage section and hopefully we should have the plane completed and ready to fly in a couple of months. Not to worry, we are both expert skydivers with many thousands of jumps between us in case of a major screw up.
If we are lucky we might get sponsored by Interplast who manufactures coroplast and 3M for the double sided tape, Arrow for the hot melt glue gun, Glad Seran wrap and last but not least, Heineken beer for the inspiration!
Here are a few photos of our progress. We have about six hours into the wings at this point.
First things first though, gotta make sure it will fly!
