OctoGlider and A10q

Last crawled date: 4 years, 2 months ago

These gliders fly very well if you know how to throw them.
Hold the chassis with your thumb and forefinger, pretend your hand is like the back of a rubber band, and push forward- slowly at first!
I teach engineering at a High School academy and promote aeronautical engineering with a PLA Glider CAD and flight challenge. This glider, designed for the month of October, flies better than anything I've printed before but you have to print it in a good quality PLA with .25 layers,1 or 2 perimeters and top bottom layers, and between 10 and 25 % infill.
Love it, change color after the first layer if you'd like,
but know that while Cura, Slic3r and Simplify3D can all be made to dial the first layer, that first layer must be rich in material and laid down on the bed a bit smoooshed so it adheres to itself and creates a strong, fused bottom layer. Fly it with hand, adjust the tail wing and bend the entire fuselage a bit to enable more or less lift.
vinchlet