Updates From The Skunkworks

I have found out that many who design and build a plane from scratch, and not just a plan builder miss that the wing incidence may not be the same as the full-scale bird.

This may take months as my new job is a blast!! But I plan on getting these done by the end of 2015.

DAG

Posted on June 5, 2015

Design

Over the last few years I have received many e-mails about design, what makes a designer, how design works, and how I became a designer.

I have decided I will do a series of post (4-5 parts) which will follow how I feel I became a designer. I know many will say ” you are not a designer Damon as you have no formal schooling or training” all I have to say to that is Bollocks!!

I plan on creating a few slides and maybe even a few videos. This will take some time as I am deep in new exciting challenges with my new job.

So stay tuned and I hope to share some fun design excitement!!

Cheers, DAG

Posted on June 4, 2015 June 4, 2015

All work and NO play??? Well……. not really

I got a ranting e-mail last night that I am letting all my aviation pals down.

Fact!!!!! LOL, I will be doing a bunch of cool things this year.

Fact!!! LOL, I have started a new gig that will make your mind EXPLODE!!! My new job is so KEWL!!!!

Fact!!!! LOL, I will be getting the EII new wings done soon.

FACT!! LOL, the C130 is very complex and will take time and is on hold. Just the PLC for the gear sequencer is cooking my brain.

FACT!!!!! I will be doing aviation stuff, BUT, Family, LIFE, WORK, and sanity comes before aviation..

Rock ON everyone……

DAG

Posted on May 25, 2015 June 4, 2015

My Designs being used by Universities.

I found out something very cool. A student at a university in Mexico reached out to me about my B36D flap design. He shared that his professor had been using my designs I have posted on youtube in their studies of Aviation Designs. He then shared that they were given a assignment to design their own B36D flap. It is very humbling to think my designs may be shaping young minds in Aviation.

I am posting a few of the pictures he sent me.

Posted on May 1, 2015 June 4, 2015

SEFF 2015

Well the week of April 20th – 26th 2015 saw the entire world descend on Americus GA yet again. SEFF being the biggest Electric fly-in in the world. The Emmaselle is still the 3rd biggest Electric RC Aircraft in the world.

This was the first time since 2012 that I was able to make it back, plus it was the first time I was able to spend the week at SEFF (although I still had meetings with work I had to call in for). Oh, some of these KEWL photos are owned and copyright of Flying Giants.com, and RC Groups.com. The Emmaselle could not win best of show as she had already won that awesome award in 2010. The Emmaselle now has over 275 flights.

Posted on February 7, 2015 February 16, 2015

Tons of e-mails with such little time, but we love them.

I have been getting many e-mails asking where you can fallow all the stuff I do.

Well…. here’s most of it.

YouTube (with over 600 followers and over 370.000 views)-

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0TL5ARJKlOR9qNQs-8nUQg

My B36 build thread (over 2.2 million views, and 14,700 comments)-

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=933242

C130 Project (over 260,000 views, and 1,900 comments)

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1200180

Emmeselle II (over 71,000 views, and 657 comments)

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1752214

Emmaselle 1919 (over 184,000 views, and 1,300 comments)

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=488009

The Mossi (over 16,700 views)

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1581924

This cover since 2004, and I have been very busy the last 4 years. I hope to keep my projects moving, but have family and work which will always come first.

Thanks, DAG

Damon G. Atwood

Posted on January 30, 2015 February 16, 2015

May be just like last year

To be honest, family, work, and life has always taken a front seat to my aviation life. Last year was a year I missed SEFF, did not get to fly once, but saw me get some cool designs done, and post more build video’s on my YouTube Channel.

Well, this year already looks to be about the same. I hope to make SEFF, and I hope to do more flying, but my family and work will always come before my hobby.

So, the C130 will not be done until late summer (I hope) and my other projects will also follow after the C130. I hope to get the Emmaselle II in the air by SEFF, but the cold hard facts are that I am about to start something very cool in my work life which to me is a once in a life time opportunity.

Rock ON!!!

Damon G. Atwood

Posted on January 15, 2015 February 16, 2015

Emma the Welder

And here is Emma learning how to flux core weld.

Damon G. Atwood

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