RC 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Maiden with Shuttle

This is my latest large foamboard plane project. This is based off the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The fuselage is built using a center foamboard box spar with formers, wrapped in foarmbard sheets. Wooden yard sticks and paint sticks are used to structurally reinforcing in the fuselage, vertical and horizontal stabilizers. The wings are a foamboard shells with foarmboard spars reinforced with yard sticks, and filed with expanding spray foam. They are removable from the fuselage and held on with aluminum tubes fixed to the wings and a 3D printed housing installed in the fuselage.

The Shuttle is built out of foamboard with box fuselage with formers for the curved top. To access the inside I built is to that you open the cargo bay doors. It is also built with a removable tail cone so that it can be switched between glider, powered flight and maybe some day model rocket assisted flight(?)

747 Specifications:
-7'-9" wingspan
-8'-9" overall plane length.
-Weight as of test: 17.5 lbs.
-(4) 70mm edf's
-(4) 4s 4000mah batteries
-9 channel receiver
-(2) ailerons
-(2) flaps
-(2) elevators
-Rudder
-Nose Gear
-Throttle
-(18) 1 3/4" wheels
-(4) 4 wheel bogeys
-(2) front wheels

Space Shuttle Specifications:
-2'-7" wingspan
-4'-6" overall length
-5A BEC
-3s 2200 battery (for nose weight)
-6 channel receiver
-Ailerons
-Elevator
-Rudder
-Release System
-Throttle (Future)

A special thanks to Chris for masterfully piloting the 747, Paul filming the flights and all my fellow club members who put up with and support all my crazy ideas like this.

[MasboyRC]

Nice plane sir, i can imagine before. that cardboard can be shutle carier. 😁

[Bikes_N_Adventure]

I can only imagine how epic this build would look with some scale paint!

[jglwck.]

Your work and channel are so underrated 😒
But thinks you do are amazing 😃👍👌

[pepijnbosvelt]

I love your work! You have a new subscriber!