Introducing our Mini-D Balsa Glider Plans
One rainy day, the question of what to do with a bunch of extra wood from an F1D build came up. The answer was, see if we could scale an F1D’s size down and make a glider from those balsa glider plans!
The challenge was simple enough and, like most others we tackle here at If It Can Fly, we want to be able to provide templates and build instructions free of charge. Nothing fancy, just the basic info so you can be on your way, enjoying the build!
The Process
Obviously, we first had to be able to build and fly an F1D successfully. Feel free to browse all of our Indoor Free Flight posts and pages for more info there. In full disclosure, you don’t really ever master the art of building these Indoor Models, you just ‘get better’. Hopefully our balsa glider plans help you get started. From there, it is up to you! We are here to answer questions, so if you need some help, contact us.
We scaled the wings, and stabilizer first, using a handy dandy calculator, and built them up to insure this effort could be successful. It was. Then, the fin was built up and finally, properly proportioned fuselage was cut. Admit-tingly, the ratio’s are slightly off because of efforts to balance the model’s CG. However, it is not noticeable AND, this is just for fun after all.
Here is the build page with all templates and drawing.
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Because video is best, we have included a couple of this beauty! On a side note, we added a prop because we were not finished. Those videos are can be found on the build page. Enjoy!
Hope the Balsa Glider Plans for our Mini-D work out for you. You should be familiar with the building techniques needed. If not, please start your journey where we started and read through all the posts and pages. Pay particular interest to the EZB pages, where there is a lot of detail on technique. Remember, its a hobby, so have fun!
