The general idea for the plane
The initial idea of building this plane was to see how well we could use our knowledge in aerodynamics to aid us in building working planes.
my original idea for the plane was to make a DO-335, a heavy fighter design built by Dornier for nazi Germany. This design was made for a heavy fighter role and intercepting roles and it had a very interesting design about it. it has a puller and a pusher prop working together at the same time. that’s what originals attracted me to trying to build it but when thinking further into it it would have been too difficult and time-consuming so I ended up just following the pre-set guidelines and design and constructed that instead.
Building process
The building process for this was very straightforward, there was a booklet with all the wood and parts that had cutouts for the wings, rudder, and ailerons. there was also a very long and more dense piece of balsa that we used to make edges on the wings and used for a spacer for the wings so they weren’t stuck to the aircraft itself. After I cut all the pieces out I started the construction process consisting of a lot of hot glue and sanding.
Concluding paragraph
The plane was put together very well, as per the instructions. I didn’t have any issues with the construction process and found it very straightforward. The one big issue that occurred during this project was the first flight test of the plane, when we threw it to let it fly around the center pole it nose-dived and snapped the entire engine assembly off the front of the plane so I had to re-glue everything back together. The next couple of tests went very well, my plane ended up flying the fastest out of the class.