Antonov AN 124 Ruslan

First I have no intention of building one in Depron or anything else.

Out of curiosity I wondered how big it would be if it used the drone motors and 5x3.5 four blade props I used in my Airbus A350.
From this 3 view

the answer is 2.4 m span and 2.26 m long.
Even with a removable wing it would not fit inside my car!

Wanna buy a roof rack ?

It would look great though
Hmmm bigger car needed, have a word with the misses

And to cap it all I certainly don't have enough Depron to make such a huge plane!

I have the depron sir as promised to you

There's always balsa....

BB
To even consider another Depron plane bigger than something quite small I will have to take you up on that offer!

paul d
So far I have been unable to create in balsa anything as light as in Depron.
Balsa, apart from greater cost, would require more powerful motors, bigger batteries and result in a faster flying speed which would I fear make an undercarriage and a smooth field a necessity.

I just couldn't resit having a bit of a doodle for the engine nacelles of the AN 124.

If I was going to make an AN 124 the nacelle inner duct, motor mount and pylon would be printed in a similar manner to the A350, particularly as there would be 4 to do!

Hmmm if you will be printing 4 of them you may as well print 6 and do the big one the 225

I can't actually print anything at the moment cause it is broken but against my better judgement I did a bit of 'playing' with CAD.
An image of a 'test' AN 124 nacelle.


The pylon is wrong (copied from the A350) but the nacelle is more or less right although the inlet needs to be canted forward by 4 degrees.

Actually build it? No way!

I was looking at that depron when cleaning up my shed tonight
Funny i was thinking that would look good turned into a Antonov

As i commented in the "MY NEW MODEL ROOM AND HANGER" thread I absolutely cannot build any more planes until I have some more room, but that does not stop me doing some 'electronic' thinking about it.
The fuselage side view converted to a one pixel wide line drawing.

When all the cross sections are similarly converted and printed out at the required size it would be enough info to start building the fuselage.
However the issue of 'undercarriage' has to be resolved first.
For its size as an EDF it will not have an excess of thrust so weight will be critical.
Hand launch/belly gives the lightest option (as I did on my Airbus A350) but the AN124 fuselage will be so broad it will be impossible to hold to launch!
The next issue is that long 5 tandem wheel undercarriage would stop it being able to 'rotate' thus preventing a take off unless flaps are deployed.
The next lightest option would then be to have a fixed U/C and flaps but then all flying will have to be conducted in a 'take off' configuration.
Retractable U/C and movable laps would almost certainly be beyond the capability of the intended lightweight (and cheap!) drone based EDFs.

Still thinking!

p s If a mod can find the time my mistake but the name in the title should be Ruslan (Lion in Russian) with an 'l' not an "i".