30-68 Eurofighter Typhoon hot wire cut EDF 70 mm

by aangeles123 | November 22, 2017 | (3) Posted in Projects

I apologize for my English This is my first project without plans...well I made the plans.

I hotwire cut a Viggen (thanks to David). I learned so much with it, but I like the Typhoon more (sorry David). I started using SketchUp, finding a good typhoon model and scale to fit my 70mm EDF. The original EDF comes from my Viggen as it was already dead. It lost a rudder on a fast roll and hit the ground nose down

My goals are:

1.- To make it fly

2.- To make it a good looking jet

3.- To have retractable landing gear (air inlet is on the bottom so maybe there will be no belly landing)

4.- To have airfoil wings

Specs:

Eurofighter Typhoon EDF Luftwaffe 

Material Foamular 2" inch (pink foam)

Wing span 800 mm (31.5 inches)

Length 1130 mm (44.5 inches)

flying weight: ? (hopefully 1200 gr)

Landing gear: tricycle retractable max 2kg AUW

Edf: Detrumm 70mm EDF

Esc: 60 A

Battery: 3000 mAh 14.8v 30C Lipo

First, I measured all the electronics, battery, EDF, ESC's, servos..download SketchUp models of everything to scale. 



I did some research about EDF's and make sure those findings, things like FSA  (Fan sweep area), are meeting in the model. Next, I choose the place where it should be a section of the template.


 

Then it was exported to a CAD file and printed.

Here in Mexico, it's not easy to find wood cutting for the template but there is a paper and works great. It is not easy to cut and I use a cutter has to do a 2-3 pass to cut, can be sanded best of all you do not need any wood and the hot wire goes easy.





Hopefully, I will maiden it soon.


COMMENTS

JamesWhomsley on November 22, 2017
Wow, cool build!

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grifflyer on November 22, 2017
oooohhh that looks great!
are you going to paint it?
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aangeles123 on November 22, 2017
yes, i love Eurofighter Typhoon S 30+68 Luftwaffe (60 Jahre Luftwaffe Special Paint Scheme)
i has done some paint testin to match ...https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/30-68
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Raccoonworks on November 23, 2017
Impressive! I plan on building a hot wire cut F-80 here over the winter.
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aangeles123 on November 24, 2017
i plan next to do a Dri Fokker,then a su-27 pusher, and then a 70mm edf Mig 15 all of them hotwire cut
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Steveacer on January 18, 2019
Incredible, looks fantastic!
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30-68 Eurofighter Typhoon hot wire cut EDF 70 mm