P-80 Shooting Star (oz15863)
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P-80 Shooting Star. Radio control scale model, for electric ducted fan (EDF). Wingspan 50 in.
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Quote: "Dear Steve, In the 1990s I was building my own selfmade electric impeller including complete P80 Shooting Star design with mouldings for fletcher and Lockheed tiptanks. The Lockheed one was never build and never flown, see pictures of 1999 with the selfmade design of the Shooting Star and the Impeller itself [pics 005-007].
Just by coincidence a friend of mine, Gero, was talking with me when I redesigned the Brian Lewis Sipa 200 Mini Jet (oz15857) and I had a brief look to the moulds, that rest in a corner of the attic. I took them out and decided to make two new planes for us, Gero and me, but with a tiny new bought impeller: Wemotec HET 2-20. The performance in the old days was very good, so with the latest design of the wemotec we could expect much more.
Two fuselages were made from 4 layers of 50gr Glas and ductings especially for the Wemotec. This impeller was flange cut and got a new radial flange for easy assy. The wings were redesigned, like the original ones but an extra strak profile for more improving and later aerodynamical separation, keeping the flow on the ailerons.
During the build it came through that Gero will build the version with the fletcher tanks, the one I had in the 1990s, and myself I more liked to test the Lockheed tanks. Could be a problem to land on, but to keep the weight low without any mechanism I add the tanks with magnetic, so they will be pushed away in the landing easily.
So enjoy the plan, fotos and CAD. The fuselage is so old, it was before CAD, but it's easy to build with the help of similar plans or a 3 side view. Cheers, Matze"
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Note this is a complex project, and so there is no simple conventional plan here, with eg fuselage formers etc. This project involves a lot of CAD design, 3D printing and moulds. See STP files and DXF cad files for more details.
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(oz15863)
P-80 Shooting Star
by Matthias Moeller
2024
50in span
Scale Electric R/C LowWing Military Fighter
clean :)
formers unchecked
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Submitted: 16/02/2025
Filesize: 385KB
Format: • PDFvector • CADfile
Credit*: MatthiasMoeller
Downloads: 582
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Matze does it again!Jan Novick - 23/02/2025
A very interesting project but not really sure that it should be on this site? Sixty five years ago P. E. Norman provided all of the construction details, and building methods to produce a ducted fan Mig 15. This one doesn’t even provide a 3 view drawing. Discuss…
Richard Falconer - 24/02/2025
Granted, this is an unusual entry, in that there is no plan drawing here of the fuselage, the mould for the outer airframe (which is lost to time now). But I see great value in the files and the photos we do have here. The 3D modelling of the vents and ducting is priceless. I very much expect PE Norman would approve.
SteveWMD - 25/02/2025
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- P-80 Shooting Star (oz15863)
- Plan File Filesize: 385KB Filename: P-80_Shooting_Star_oz15863.pdf
- Supplement Filesize: 388KB Filename: P-80_Shooting_Star_oz15863_named_sheets.zip
- Supplement Filesize: 444KB Filename: P-80_Shooting_Star_oz15863_stp.zip
- CAD Zip Filesize: 53KB Filename: P-80_Shooting_Star_oz15863_cad.zip
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