Monday, 13 October 2025

Designing and building a rubber band powered plane for under £5

Designing and building a rubber band powered plane for under £5
My first thought when thinking of an efficient glider is the balsa wood planes with structural techniques similar to real planes, with longerons and airfoil profiles throughout the wings. I started here, 3d printing some basic airfoils to act as struts to get a general shape of a wing through wrap…