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Hi, the Sea Hawk parts were mostly printed single wall with a 0.4mm nozzle and an extrusion multiplier/flowrate of 0.5. For me this results in a printed wall thickness of about 0.50-0.55mm and the part weights given in the build guide.
I wouldn't recommend using two walls, since lighter always flies better, but if you need more strength you could increase the flowrate, especially if your parts are ending up lighter than the build guide weights.

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Hi, the parts marked solid are all small and need high strength, so they should be printed with a high infill percentage such as 70% or higher.

Hello, I recommend the top and bottom 5mm of most parts to have two perimeters (or walls or outlines depending on your slicer), while the rest of the part has a single wall. This helps make the glue joints stronger, but isn't essential as some slicers can't change settings based on height.

I'm sorry but I don't want to provide the design file for the V2 F-14. You could reimport the Fuse 1 to 3 STLs into blender, rotate them 45 degrees and realign them, which would give the important areas for landing gear.

Completely understand - I figured as much. Would it be possible to get the STLs as OBJs? The STLs have crazy geometry because of how they get exported. Again, I completely understand if not.

Sorry, I also don't want include the parts as obj files, however there is a function in blender called triangles/tris to quads which can help make stls more workable.

Hi, its great to hear you like the Vulcan,
For both tail surfaces I used 1mm wire directly from the servos in the fuselage to the control surfaces. To connect to the controls horns on each end I'd recommend '3D' z bends which allow the wire to simply rotate onto the control horn.
Page 3 of the build guide has a photo of the servos showing the push rods, which first bend downwards through the servo horn and then inboard to stop them coming off. This is repeated on the control surface side, although one end has to bent with the wire in position which is a little tricky.

Hello, unfortunately I can only provide STL files as I am not familiar with IGES format.

Hello! I'm very sorry for the delayed reply, I hope it's not too late but I've approved your offer.

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Hi, the F-14 was designed entirely in blender.

Thanks for letting me know

Hi! Feel free to modify any of the files for your own use, although if you are planning to add fixed gear be careful not to add too much weight - this is one of the reasons it is a hand launch / belly lander.

Glad you like the F-14! I have considered designing fuel tanks, although they would probably be for static only, as I think they would rip off the ducts on landing, as well as adding a weight penalty. The F-14 certainly isn't an ideal belly lander, but as long as it lands fairly slowly on a soft surface the ventral fins can take the landing loads.

Can you please design a 64mm ducted French Super Etendard attack aircraft? I think it will be a very suitable RC aircraft for belly landing. I like this beautiful attack aircraft that has participated in actual combat.

How should I set the aileron and elevator of this aircraft on the remote control? It is not mentioned in the manual.thx！

Apologies for the late response, I hope you found the answer in the manual, but for first flight I would recommend elevator throws of +-20mm and aileron +-18mm measured at the leading edge of the tailerons.

Thank you very much for your reply. Would it be possible to scale up this model to utilize dual 64mm EDF units and adapt the existing landing gear parts from the Freewing 64mm EDF F-14 for installation on this almost perfect F-14 RC model? Thank you!

Hello and thank you! It should be possible to scale the F-14 down for a static model, but be aware that the infill structures were designed for the current scale of 1:18.6, so they might cause some holes in thin areas, which would need to be filled after printing. Alternatively, your slicer may have an option to fill detail smaller than 0.1mm, which should remove the designed infill, or you could use a 0.3mm or 0.2mm nozzle.
If you haven't already, please try scaling the free test piece included with the build guide: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/build-guide-f-14-rc-aircraft-twin-50mm-fan-960mm-span

All files are provided in standard .stl format which should be compatible with all slicers. I am sorry I cannot recreate this issue.

Unfortunately no. Only 50mm units with an outer diameter of roughly 52.5mm will fit in the F-14

Which model are you referring to? Both planes fly well but I would only recommend them if you have previous experience building and flying 3d printed planes.

I have only printed the F-14 in LW-PLA, so I would not recommend PLA+ as the added weight will probably be too high to fly.

Yes, the F-14 should be able fly on a 3s pack as long as it can handle the current draw of the two fans.

Hello. Most parts should be printed with a single wall without infill, and ideally with 2 walls for the top and bottom 5mm to help with strength. Vase mode is not required, but I have designed the parts to help reduce the number of travel moves.
As for the part weights, they are what I achieved with a 0.4mm nozzle printing Colourfabb high temperature light-weight PLA with a flowrate of about 0.5.
If the weight difference is reasonably small it may be worth doing a test print as the slicer predictions may be inaccurate.

Hi. The settings that should be used depend both on the filament that you use and your printer. I may be able to help if I know which filament you are using.

Just for your information: a Prusa MK4S has the following build area
250x210x220 (WxDxH )

Unfortunately the minimum printer size is 200x200x230 using the split parts provided. It may be possible to print the top 10mm of these parts separately and glue them together afterwards.