Quick update with the fully assembled inboard side flap drive system for the inboard flaps... I'd say it's working as well as I could've possibly hoped! Are you as shocked as I am?!?
It never ceases to impress me what people are capable of when they're not just hanging out on Instagram and TikTok. Your work is really incredibly inspiring. 🚀
this is so cool! just absolutely amazed at the level of craftsmanship/precision you've achieved here to get a smooth yet stable movement. I've made simple mechanisms for aircraft as well but out of paperclips and straws. doing this all in paper and at this level of complexity is just insane man. that feeling of "wow, this actually works!" is well deserved!
Luca, I take my hat off to you buddy. Been following your progress and all I have to say is Wow, Wow and Wow -- AMAZING !! You should be working with Boeing as a design engineer !! Been a modeller myself and loving building all kinds of scale models adding minute details to them, when I see your build I get inspired and amazed. I looks like you are an engineer by trade, or at least you have the right knowledge to be able to design with such precision all the minute details of this project and make them work - - that's amazing. Please keep up the wonderful outstanding work. Again, my hat is of to you. God bless buddy and thanks for sharing with the world !!
Thanks so much! I'm not a formally trained engineer, I think my mind just works in the (right?) way to understand stuff like this and I enjoy the challenge of figuring it out.
OMG! That's unreal! Made of PAPER! Was trying to think how is it going to be possible to display the finished project in such a way that all the collective engineering dynamics are represented. It would have to be a running video demo of all the moving parts. This is beautiful
@@lucaiaconistewart Just be sure to save every single video of everything that is hidden (function and form) - who knows what museum this will end up in! : ) Evergreen has a video kiosk supplementing the Spruce Goose construction. This sculpture is quite amazing - the manila paper 'rule' mixes artisanship with engineering.
@@lucaiaconistewart Brilliant lol! Thank you. I noticed some of the "pins" are expanded on the ends to lock pieces together, looking kind of like a rivet. I'm guessing you tap either end to expand the pin to prevent pieces from sliding off?
Bro that is insane, can you please release templates of some of the more complicated mechanisms when you've finalized the designs? I'd love to try and recreate this and just play with it till my dumbass breaks it
I'll think about it once I'm done with the project. Unfortunately my design files are a mess and don't come with any instructions (sometimes I even forget how I'm supposed to put them together!)
I use two different thicknesses of paper. This is the regular thickness: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002IXM3AW/ And this is the "double" thickness/for stronger structural parts: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013CME9E/
How do you plan to actuate it once it's integrated into the plane? Are you going to build a tiny, little hydraulic paper motor? If not, I'll be disappointed ;-)
