Heat Shrink Sleeves for Canopies

1 October 2018

I'm excited by the prospect after seeing some of Maxflier's youtube videos in which he formed canopies by shrinking those transparent heat shrink plastic sleeves (those for lipo batteries) over a male mould.

Wow, no one-off 'die' plates, no vacuum box and frame, no heat gloves! It seems all it took him was  just a single male mould stuffed into a heatshrink with some packing pieces. Simplicity and effective for small and light canopies!

His free flight balsa planes are good lookers and performs well. He used trussed spars for the wings and printed tissue for the covering. I enjoyed his videos and will watch more