Can I FIX this 3D Printed Airliner after BIG CRASH

I worked for American Airlines maintenance until retirement last year. I have lots of experience with damaged A321’s and let me tell you, Airbus would be proud of your major repair! Great work and congratulations on maiden flight 2.0😀

I bet the passengers loved that smooth runway.

Now add retracting landing gear with actual shock absorbers.

Probably an old Ryanair or spirit pilot flying for American

This is an amazing rebuild! you should make more airliners in my opinion. Keep up the AWESOME work!!!

You really Ryanair’d the landing.

I did not realize how recent this was (as of today under 2 months); you are way more diligent and patient with this stuff than I could be. As Torboli noted, you could easily (LOL) add a torsion mechanism to the nose wheel to let it pivot up a little when it hits and reduce the chance of losing control on taxi. This is some GREAT work, Troy.

Rubber wheels would be much better for that rough surface. Also, I think you had some cold solder joints around the six minute mark. Otherwise, that's a really cool project, and it looked GREAT in the air.

Troy, you are a brave man not doing a single circuit and then checking the electrics! Not the ideal landing/take off surface. Well done on the rescue.

Troy - great job in restoring your "Phoenix" and getting her back into the air. Nice job in determining the cause of the crash & taking corrective steps to avoid a recurrence.

Very happy to see you rebuild it. I'm pleased you are now using a totally separate system for the RX and servos. It is usually the high-power stuff that will fail before the low-power stuff! And, I see so many ESC's either have a main MOSFET failure or the darn regulator for the RX--sometimes frying the RX because the regulator shorted! One way or another the RX loses power and you lose the ship! Also, there is an old 'Scratch-Builders' saying: "Any part you can salvage, is a part you do not have to rebuild!" I have made some miraculous repairs with about the only penalty being a bit more weight from the glue or additional supports--but I've never had it be detrimental to the flight characteristics. BRAVO--You're a good man Charlie-Brown!

Glad to see you rebuilt it. The long ESC power leads are still a concern but I have only known it to cause an issue on one of my builds when I did it on a large drone. On that drone I resolved it by extending the leads from the ESC to the motor instead of the battery lead. Grats on the successful maiden.

how about a version 2 with retracts n flaps? then id buy both stls!

use flux when you solder at 6.08 ish the joints don't look like they flow very well. neat stuff otherwise.

I'm so glad you came over the crash and rebuilt it. I'm also glad you used the auxiliairy battery for reception ! Great job !

Wow, I'm still amazed that you designed this beautiful plane from scratch in Fusion360. That is a feat in itself. Great video of the build, crash, and successful 2nd maiden. Would love to see you do some more full designs of other iconic aircraft. I'm sure you've learned a ton about what makes a good build and design from Eclipson, to Planeprint, to 3Dlabprint designs. Keep up the great work. I've learned a ton from your videos. Currently building the PP Eagle and Snowy Owl, as well as the Eclipson Pitts.

Nice job! I would recommend creating a receiver battery harness with two or even three servo connectors/cables instead of just one. Servo connectors are only rated to around 3 amps, and those tiny wires aren't rated to much more. As many servos as you have you will likely see quite a bit of voltage drop through those small wires and single connector. While it would probably be fine, redundancy is a very good thing to have. I use receiver batteries on my RC helicopters and always use at least 2 wires from the receiver pack if not three.

Great video I've ordered my 1st 3D printer after watching lots of your channel a Anycubic Vyper.Been into rc flying for many years and I would recommend a watt meter for your tool box,it saved one of my models when I put an over sized prop on pulling over 100 amps on a 80 amp esc.

You are not only a wonderful engineer with golden hands, but also a wonderful, kind person yourself. Thanks!!!! Good luck and interesting work

Really glad you were able to get it back up in the air. Can't wait for more, keep it up!