Scratch built Shuriken FPV Jet

[Jaguar_5]

Hey guys, recently I started building a new plane for FPV. This will be my first real outdoor airplane (over 500 watts), as well as first FPV plane. So far I have about 6 minutes of FPV flight under my belt with a tricopter. My plane experience so far has been pretty much exclusively indoor flying with 3D Foamies, or flying them outside when the wind is calm enough. I'm mostly a heli pilot, but planes are so much more relaxing to fly! And great for FPV.

The airplane I am building is a midprop jet. It was designed by my friend (Kai_Shiden) and he named it the Shuriken V2 (v1 was a flat fuse). He is truly a talented designer!!

Here is the original one he made in action: (at about 4:30 there's some nice low and slow flying so you can see the plane well)


His setup was hitting 53A peaks, and over 600 Watts. My setup will probably be a bit more powerful (he used what he had, I'm buying specific for the build)

Electronics:
Arc 28-47-1.5
Phoenix 60
Futaba R6008HS
Hyperion G3 VX 3S 2200
2x Futaba 3114's
2x Futaba 3115's

Below you can see the progress I've made so far on putting the airframe together.

[Jaguar_5]

The Shuriken jet is nearly done. Just waiting on a couple of servos and some hardware.

Layed out the electronics and I think I will mount them like this. If anyone has suggestions let me know. I plan to use a home made inverted V antenna embedded in the vertical stabilizer.

[EKOZXX]

Cool, very neat. Do you cut this using laser or just usual cutter? Where you get plan of this aircraft? I want build one too.

Regards
Ekozxx
http://www.mata-angkasa.com

[Jaguar_5]

Sorry but there aren't any plans available for this plane. I just borrowed templates from the guy who made it.

It was all cut out by hand with a razor and a straight-edge.

[Jaguar_5]

The Shuriken jet is COMPLETE!!! Finally!!

Test flew it yesterday with all the FPV gear installed, didn't quite break 100mph yet, but I think I can safely try a 6x5.5 instead of the 6x4 that's on there. Still haven't flown it FPV yet, by the time I was done it was a bit too dark, and this camera doesn't handle low light near as good as my other cam on the tricopter.

With Futaba 2.4 gear, I got a range test of over 500 feet (didn't measure exactly, using google earth to estimate). With all the FPV gear powered on, there was no noticeable difference in range.

Video & pics soon I got 2 flights in, I'll have to edit them together.

[Jaguar_5]

Well the testing on the Shuriken is still continuing. Trying different props, and I've been fighting some serious elevon flutter. This is causing a huge amount of drag, not to mention, stress on the components. I have switched to a different hinge method (standard blenderm hinge for no airgap, instead of previous z-hinges) and reinforced the elevon with duct tape. Still not good enough. I'm currently in the process of fiberglassing the elevons.

Between the Tricopter , Funtana-X, and now the Shuriken, I have a good number of FPV flights under my belt. I haven't posted any vids for a couple of reasons, one being I've been wanting to edit videos together instead of posting what is basically a raw flight vid. I haven't actually gotten around to this though, so I've decided to just start and upload and post a few one at a time.