Ambition, Thy Name is a 3D Printed Transonic R/C Jet
Ambition, Thy Name Is A 3D Printed Transonic R/C Jet No comments by: Tyler August October 5, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled. 3D printing the aircraft isn’t that odd these days, but putting a hot jet engine into a plastic airframe is another ambitous reach. Getting said 3D printed airframe up to the transonic speed of Mach 0.8?
- ▪Ambition, Thy Name Is A 3D Printed Transonic R/C Jet No comments by: Tyler August October 5, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled.
- ▪3D printing the aircraft isn’t that odd these days, but putting a hot jet engine into a plastic airframe is another ambitous reach.
- ▪Getting said 3D printed airframe up to the transonic speed of Mach 0.8?
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Ambition, Thy Name Is A 3D Printed Transonic R/C Jet No comments by: Tyler August October 5, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled. 3D printing the aircraft isn’t that odd these days, but putting a hot jet engine into a plastic airframe is another ambitous reach. Getting said 3D printed airframe up to the transonic speed of Mach 0.8? Ambition, thy name is Kingchaser. Or at least, that’s the name [The Mach Initiative] give to their very ambitious aircraft, the video about which is embedded below. The airframe is largely 3D printed from PETG– that’s all the orange bits– but there are carbon fiber rods and an aluminum frame to help take up the strain.
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