I have received this email asking for help. I am asking for you as the Stunt Hangar crew to help them.
Hi Stunt Hanger,
I will be mentoring a group of 7th, 8th, and 9th grade students this coming spring. The main focus of this Engineering and Innovation Club will be aerodynamics with an emphasis on flying/fixing/designing model aircraft. This club is hosted by the local Vocational Education High School in our area.
We do not really have the space to fly RC aircraft but we certainly have the space for control line flying. I am already somewhat invested in electric RC gear as I am learning RC at the moment. I spent hours flying C/L in my parents' front yard, literally hours a day with two buddies until we ran out of fuel. My Baby Flightstreak was a fantastic flyer.
I have been in contact with Wil Hubin (he lives about an hour and a half from me) about his timers and am heading in that direction. What plane and powerplant would you recommend for getting these middle schoolers started on C/L flying. We need to go electric because the issue of having glow fuel at the school gets sticky.
We have access to a complete Fab Lab with laser cutters/engravers, a nice 5hp cnc router, vinyl printers/cutters for wraps & decals, and a nice 3D printer. I will be teaching the kids how to use the laser and vinyl cutters. I was wondering if anyone made airframes out of coroplast. I have alot of coroplast and we can cut it with the laser and or cnc router. I want to have airframes that are rather resistant to pilot induced ground modifications! With these assets it would be possible to build airframes from plans...especially if the plans are in electronic format i.e. autocad.
looking forward to any guidance you can provide.
Cordially,
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