Which boy doesn't admire structures like airplanes? Do-it-yourself aircraft models made from ceiling tiles are an excellent gift for children who are interested in aviation. Especially if they took part in assembling the airframe. The article will tell you how to make a simple airplane model from ceiling tiles.

Aircraft modeling

Model airplane construction is a popular technical sport that is of interest to schoolchildren, students, workers and engineers. At the same time, everyone chooses for themselves a class of aircraft models that suits their interests.

In aircraft modeling there are three fairly large groups of aircraft models, presented in the table:

Model class	Peculiarities
	In such models, designer intervention is impossible during flight. All adjustments and settings of the aircraft are completed when it is launched. They can be: - motorless - gliders; - with a simple, very small, internal combustion engine, which is attached to the body with an elastic band. The motors on the models work for a few seconds to throw the light-winged structures up to a hundred meters up, and then they smoothly go down. Timers or special clock mechanisms are used to turn off the engine and switch the steering wheel to planning.
	With such models, the athlete controls wire threads, which are called cord. The devices fly in a circle with a diameter of approximately 40 meters. The “pilot” is located in its center with the control stick. When you pull the handle towards yourself, the elevator deflects, and the device obediently flies up. And moving the handle away from you causes the model to descend. The devices are: Aerobatics, capable of performing all aerobatic maneuvers. High-speed ones, reaching speeds of up to 300 km per hour. Racing aircraft that combine efficiency, engine starting reliability, ease of maintenance and high performance in flight.
	Controlled remotely, wirelessly. For this purpose, there is a set of radio equipment, which includes a transmitter, in the hands of the operator, and a receiver with steering control mechanisms, mounted on board the model.

Model aircraft structure

Tip: Before you make an airplane from ceiling tiles, you need to become familiar with its design.

The design of all models is very similar. The main components of the radio-controlled airplane model are shown in the photo.

This:

• Fuselage. This is the basis of the entire model on which the following are mounted:

1. bearing structures;
2. tail section;
3. chassis.

Installed inside:

1. engine;
2. aircraft control equipment: receiver, steering controls, batteries.

• Wing. Serves to create lifting force. The wing keeps the model in the air.
• Ailerons- control surfaces located at the rear end of the wing and deflected up or down in antiphase. They allow the plane to tilt left and right.
• Tail. It consists of a vertical part - the keel, and a horizontal part - the stabilizer. This device provides stability to the aircraft so that it can fly straight and level without tumbling in the sky, randomly changing the direction of its movement.

The rudder is installed at the rear end of the keel.

• Chassis. Allow the model to take off from the surface and then land on it.

Advice: If there is no landing gear, the model should be launched by hand, and the plane should be landed “on its belly”.

• Engine. Creates the movement of the model, allows it to gain the desired height, and then maintain a given speed.
• Tank. Serves for the fuel needed to run the engine.

• Receiver. Receives the transmitter signal, amplifies it, and processes it. And then it transmits to the steering gears.
• Steering cars. The signal coming from the receiver is converted into moving the model's rudders through the connected rods.
• The receiver and machine are powered from the on-board battery. Usually these are four “finger” elements.

Model selection

Advice: When choosing to make an airplane from ceiling tiles with your own hands, you need to ensure, first of all, that it is reliable to take off and land, and then that it satisfies aesthetic needs.

The aircraft model must have the following properties:

• Be stable: stay in the air well without much input from the pilot.
• It is easy to repair, which is ensured by aircraft models made from ceiling tiles.
• Sufficient strength, but without compromising flight qualities: withstand hard landings and fly well.

We do it ourselves

To work you will need tools and materials:

Making any design, including an aircraft model, with your own hands begins with the development of drawings. To do this, you can use the services of specialists or copy them from websites, print templates on a printer or draw them according to size.

After the printer:

• Printouts on A4 sheet formats are laid out on a flat surface according to serial numbers. The result should be a life-size image of the aircraft elements.
• All the necessary sheets are glued together.
• When gluing sheets without disturbing the dimensions and geometry of the future aircraft.
• Cutting lines are drawn by connecting special crosses drawn at the corners that define the boundaries of the image.
• The resulting airplane drawings from ceiling tiles are combined with structural fragments, glue is applied to the uncut edges of the sheets, and all parts are carefully glued together so that their joints coincide very precisely.

• This way all the fragmented elements of the model are glued together.
• Paper templates are cut out with scissors.

Manufacturing of blanks

Blanks for assembling the aircraft are cut from ceiling tiles using prepared templates.

Tip: To prevent the sheets from moving from the tiles, they must be fixed to the surface of the material with glue. After marking is completed, the glue does not have time to dry and the paper is easily removed without damage for further use.

• To mark a simple part with straight lines, it is enough to pierce all its corners with a needle.
• Remove the stencil and, using a ruler from adjacent puncture points on the tile, cut through the material with the tip of a knife.
• The ruler is shifted to the next adjacent points until the complete cutting of the part is completed.
• A workpiece of complex shape with rounded sides can be completely cut out according to the template.

• It is advisable to mark each part to facilitate its purpose, according to the assembly drawing.

Airplane assembly

Before you start assembling all the parts, it is better to watch the video.

The aircraft assembly technology can be roughly described as follows:

• Double partitions consisting of several parts are glued together, which increases their strength. For example, fuselage partitions.

Tip: For work you should use Titan glue, its price is the most affordable for beginning modelers. It is more convenient to apply glue with a syringe without a needle, using it as a dispenser.

• To ensure that the ends of the cut parts are smooth, they are sanded with sandpaper.
• The side of the fuselage is placed on the table so that the front side is towards the outside of the aircraft. All mounting holes are cut out on it.
• Using this part, the same holes are made on the second half of the fuselage.
• Glue is applied to the glued side of the front compartment partition blank and the part is pressed into place at the installation site. After spreading the composition on the mating part, the workpieces are separated and left for the glue to partially dry for about 30 seconds. The parts are connected again and pressed with force for about 10 seconds.
• When assembling an aircraft, it is necessary, if necessary, to adjust the dimensions of the battery compartment, constantly checking with a square or ruler the perpendicularity of the parts being joined.
• This is how all the fuselage partitions are gradually assembled.

• After installing all the partitions, the second side of the fuselage is glued.
• The nose of the aircraft and the mounting of the frame for the engine are being completed.
• The upper part of the fuselage is installed.
• The tail blanks are glued together. In this case, reinforced tape fittings are immediately laid to fix the rudder and toothpicks for rigidity.

• The gluing is clamped with a board and clamps, which will ensure evenness of gluing.
• The tail is glued into place.
• The verticality of the elements is controlled and strictly maintained.
• The elevator parts are glued together. In this case, a bamboo skewer and tape are placed inside to fix the steering wheel. To ensure reliable gluing of the ceiling halves, the tape can be perforated with holes.
• The elements are compressed with a board and clamps, and left for about a day until the glue dries completely.
• The edges are ground down with sandpaper or a stone at an angle of 45°, which will allow them to not rest against each other when the planes of the model are tilted.
• The wing is assembled, lines are marked on it for gluing stiffeners, ribs, and spars.

• A wooden axle or spar can be made from a wooden ruler 50 centimeters long.
• The spar rail is glued.
• The joint in the center is reinforced with two small slats.
• Foam plastic neurites are glued in.
• The desired shape of the wing plane is set. To do this, the substrate or ceiling material is rolled onto a piece of pipe.
• Glue is applied to all mating elements and final gluing is performed. While the adhesive composition is setting, the wing is fixed in any available way: weights, clothespins, tape.

• Small dents caused by clothespins are sanded with sandpaper.
• The cavities in the center of the wing are closed and inserts are glued.
• After the glue has dried, the ailerons are marked. In this case, it is necessary to additionally look at the assembly in the light so as not to get on the partition.
• They are cut through on both sides with a cutter, and the finished aileron is removed.
• Opened cavities are sealed with strips of tiles.
• The ailerons can be glued immediately with reinforced tape or later, before the main fitting of the aircraft model.
• The front part of the wing can be reinforced with reinforced tape.
• The entire model is covered with tape, which serves for beauty, and most importantly gives the structure greater strength, which will allow the product to withstand impacts from falling.
• The adhesive tape is smoothed with a warm iron, which will finally attach it to the ceiling tiles.
• A slot is made in the body of the aircraft into which the wing is installed.
• Servos are installed on the wing. To do this, the elements are applied and outlined with a marker, and a seat is cut out.
• The wires are pulled with a homemade wire hook.
• On the contrary, hogs are installed on the ailerons and connected to the servos with a rigid wire.
• Two servos are installed in the aircraft fuselage, for the rudder and the elevator.
  For fixation, it is better to use double-sided tape, glued to all contact areas of the servo.
• The elements are installed in place and the supporting walls are additionally glued. The rods are laid from rigid wire to the rudders.
• A frame is made to mount the motor.
• Thin plywood is glued to the motor mounting side; bolts will be screwed into it for fixation.
• The frame for the motor is glued into place.
• The motor driver is mounted at the front of the fuselage, and the wires are brought out through the ventilation window and connected.

Car modeling, motor glider, foam planes. Motor installation

• The direction of rotation is checked.
• The fairing is put in place and secured with tape.
• To strengthen the installation site of the wing, it must be secured by gluing plywood or thin shingles.
• The receiver is installed, and all the wires from all the electronics are collected together.
• The bottom of the fuselage is glued, a hatch is cut for mounting the battery.
• The total weight of the model is approximately 450 grams.
• You can fly over a model airplane. The video will show you how to do this.

Assembling airplanes from ceiling tiles is the simplest option, which a novice aviation enthusiast can do if desired. The main condition is to do everything carefully, adhering to the assembly technology, and it is better to take the advice of a specialist.

Here's what we did (video)

The instructions are being written very slowly. Piece by piece Well... did I say it should be detailed? So that even someone who has never done this could build his own radio-controlled airplane. Well, experienced modelers please treat the instructions with leniency. (and if you are in a good mood, then point out possible mistakes). So, we transfer the drawings to the ceiling and cut out the aircraft parts.

Cutting out the parts of a radio-controlled airplane from the ceiling

But first you need to transfer the pattern drawings. There are two ways here. One of them requires the purchase of self-adhesive film, and the second requires simple office paper with tape. I will take the second route, although I have self-adhesive tape (in principle, for a ceiling, ordinary paper with adhesive tape is enough). So let’s print it out (By the way, the pattern file has been updated, so it’s better to download it again). When printing, be sure to set the print mode without scaling, i.e. print at 100% scale. Just in case, here is a screenshot for Acrobat Reader.

We get 10 sheets of A4 format.

Now you need to glue together sheets 1 and 2, as well as sheets 3 and 4 with the corresponding parts of sheet 5. There are connecting lines on the drawing sheets.

Cut one of the sheets along this line,
combine it with the second sheet, and glue them together with tape.
The fifth sheet needs to be cut in half, and combined with 3 and 4. (something I started repeating...).

Next, you need to cut out paper patterns. But not along the contour! We retreat from the edge by 4-6 mm. This is necessary in order to clearly see the line along which you need to cut. There is no need to give too much tolerance - otherwise the pattern will be “stretched” behind the knife, distorting the contours of the part from the ceiling. Let me remind you that the paper pattern will stick to the ceiling only due to its edges. But you shouldn’t make too small an indent from the edge either. If the paper is thick, then its edge will crush the ceiling when you start pressing on it with a knife from above at the beginning of cutting.

Now, take one sheet of ceiling and cut it around the edges. If you have a ceiling with smooth edges, then this procedure is not necessary. But often the ceiling sheets are slightly bent at the edges. Therefore, we take a long metal ruler, step back from the edge by 1 cm (you can measure it, or you can do it by eye), and cut off these curved edges (so as not to get in the way). But, in principle, this operation can be skipped if you glue the drawings to the top side (the edges “look” down).

We place paper patterns on sheets of ceiling. We leave at least half a centimeter of open ceiling between the parts (so that the tape can hold onto it). In principle, you don’t have to lay everything out at once and do the parts one at a time, i.e. I laid down one pattern, secured it with tape, cut it out and added it to the next one.

And we start cutting. In order not to spoil the ceiling in vain, we start with the simplest parts - these are the sides of the forward part of the fuselage (rectangles). Before doing this, you need to remember some nuances.

Video of how one of the wing halves is cut out.

And another video where the most complex part of this plane is cut out (the voice is so quiet because everyone was already asleep... and I didn’t want to wake you up)

And another video where one frame is cut out with a model knife. For comparison, how much faster and more convenient it is to work with it, rather than with a stationery knife.

It may be a good idea to sign the pieces after the paper pattern is removed after cutting. Although all the details are quite recognizable (and the only very similar but still different parts of the upper and lower parts of the fuselage can be determined by their length: the lower one is 1 mm longer than the upper one). The lines of the leading and trailing edges of the wing, drawn on the upper parts of the fuselage, need to be transferred to the ceiling (with a marker, pen) - then we will install the wing along these lines. This also applies to the lines on the wing parts (we will use them to align the wing on the fuselage). These lines are not shown in the video or photographs, as they were added right when this instruction was written. How to transfer this line - you can, for example, assign the ends of this line at the ends of the ceiling, and then connect these points under the ruler.

The result should be this set of aircraft parts from the ceiling
This article turned out to be somewhat chaotic, so it will change (for the better, I hope). I won’t change the drawings (I also hope).

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