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  • Page 1 These manuals are the culmination of more then 10 years of design and publication and formally sold for $10.00 each. With 54 different manuals available, that’s a $540.00 value. Now, due to the worldwide economic collapse, they are my gift to you. My hope is that you will enjoy these great little airplanes as much as I have enjoyed designing them for you.
  • Page 2 Step By Step Construction Plans. 23 Pages With Over 90 Full Color Photos showing how to build the Beechcraft V-35 Wingspan: 18” Bonanza Length: 15” Height: 5” Can be made from most 12oz Beverage Cans. www.bcair.com Copyright © 2006 B. C. Originals...
  • Page 3 Welcome to the B. C. Air Originals Squadron. This booklet contains complete step by step instructions for building the B. C. Air Originals Beechcraft V-35 Bonanza. Before you start building your first plane it is suggested that you review the entire set of plan directions. Once you have pre- viewed the construction steps you should start collecting the cans that you want to use to make your first plane.
  • Page 4 When you print your manuals be sure that your printer is set on it’s MAX printing area to ensure that all the templates print out to the correct size. The standard 12 oz Can, here in the US, measures 2 1/2" in diameter. If the Cans you’re using to make your plane are smaller or larger, then here’s what you do..
  • Page 5 The following is a list of tools and materials I use to build these planes. You may find that you do not need all of the tools that I use. Use whatever works best for you. Small hammer of some kind. Pliers.
  • Page 6 Using two hole saws (the larger one is 2 3/4” and the smaller one is 1 5/8”) cut two circles from any kind of wood that is 3/4” thick. Soft Pine like that used to make wooden pallets works best. These two wooden circles will now become F-1 & F-2. The Taper is at 10°...
  • Page 7 Cutting Cans The building of these planes requires that the Tops and/or Bottoms of beverage cans be cut off. While you can decide for yourself which method you use to accomplish this, most builders use a Dremal ® Tool in a fashion similar to that shown below. What I’ve done here is taken a piece of board wood (aprox 12”...
  • Page 8 Another Way Of Cutting Cans Once you’ve selected which Cans your plane will be made out of, take one Can and hold it firmly at it’s bottom. Using your wire snips, cut through the ring at the top of the Can. Now grab the ring with your wire snips and PULL the top off the Can.
  • Page 9 STEP # 1 Remove the Pull Tab from one of the Cans you’re going to use to make your plane and cut the bottom off as shown here. Put a 3/32” hole in the center of the little button, used to hold the pull tab in place, on the top of the Can.
  • Page 10 Tail Cone (TC) Template # 1 Top Center Line (TCL) STEP # 4 Cut Tail Cone (TC) Template # 1 from one of the Cans you opened up in Step # 3. Place Double Sided Tape along Bottom Center Line (BCL) of the Tail Cone as shown here. Bottom Center Line Edge Staple TC to F-2 as shown.
  • Page 11 Staple Staple B-2C STEP # 7 Staple Can B-2C to F-1 as shown here. B-2C STEP # 8 Wrap B-2C around F-1 AND TC and staple as shown. Staple Staples B-2C B-2C Staple www.bcair.com This now becomes B-2. STEP # 9 Insert B-2 into Can B-1 (from Step # 1) and staple as shown.
  • Page 12 STEP # 10 Trace Template # 2 onto a piece of mylar. BOTTOM CENTER OF CAN B-1 www.bcair.com...
  • Page 13 STEP # 11 Tape Template # 2 into a cylinder and slide it onto B-1 as shown. Edge of Template meets edge of B-1. Bottom Center of Plane. Using your Push Pins, make holes “A” & “B” Using your x-acto knife make SLITS # 1 &...
  • Page 14 Cut TWO pieces of corrugated cardboard as shown below. STEP # 13 DISCARD 1/2” <---------- Corrugation Runs this way ---------> 2 5/8” 1” DISCARD 7 1/4” STEP # 14 Insert the Two WS through Holes A & B in B-1 and tape the Two pieces of cardboard (from Step # 13) to them as shown below.
  • Page 15 STEP # 16 Double Sided Tape Put Two strips of double sided tape on the UNDER SIDE of the wing. Stick one of the Cans that you opened up in Step # 3 to the Under side of the wing. STEP # 17 Double Sided Tape 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1...
  • Page 16 STEP # 18 Make FOUR, 1/16” holes in 1/2” the Tail Cone as shown. Holes “C” are 3/4” apart and 1/2” from the back of B-2 3/4” Holes “D” are 1/2” apart and 1 1/2” TOP Center Line of Plane. 1 1/2”...
  • Page 17 Double Sided Tape STEP # 22 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 Push both VSCB against the TC. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4...
  • Page 18 Cut Templates from Cans you opened up in Step # 3 Template # 5 Tab 10 Tab 9 Windshield (WS) Template # 6 Nose Wheel Gear Door www.bcair.com Tab 2 Tab 1 NWGD Template # 4 Backbone (B) Tab 4 Template # 7 Tab 3 Main Wheel Gear Door...
  • Page 19 STEP # 24 Take 2 cans from Step # 3, and tape them together as shown here. Cellophane Tape Double-Sided Tape STEP # 25 Trace Template # 4 (B) onto the two Cans you taped together in Step # 24 and cut it out.
  • Page 20 Back of (B) down against the Tail Cone. Tab 1 Tab 3 Tab 5 Tab 7 www.bcair.com STEP # 26 Insert Tabs 1 & 2 into Slits 1 & 2 (in B-1) and tape Backbone (B) in place on B-1 & B-2. Now mark where to make Slits 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, &...
  • Page 21 STEP # 28 Working through the Front of the Backbone (B), apply glue/epoxy to the INSIDE of (B) where it rests on B-1 & B-2. glue/epoxy glue/epoxy Remove the tape from the out- side of (B) when the glue/epoxy has dried. STEP # 29 Take a piece of 3/32”...
  • Page 22 Building The Six Cylinder Horizontally Opposed Engine. STEP # 30 Stack 6 Pull Tabs, hold in place with a strip of tape, and glue/epoxy them together. (Make 6 stacks of Tabs.) Glue 3 stacks “Side-by-Side”. These will become the Engine Cylinders (ECS).
  • Page 23 STEP # 31 Use a needle nose pliars and bend the PS UP approx 1/4” from the front of B-1. Then bend it stright again as shown here. When finished it should look like this. Place some glue/epoxy onto the BACK of the PS and slide the engine onto the PS.
  • Page 24 STEP # 33 Template # 5 Put glue/epoxy in the INSIDE of WS and place WS Tab 9 into Slit 1& Tab 10 into Slit 2, in B-1. Position WS in FRONT of “B” and on TOP of “B-3” (EC). Hold in place with tape until glue/epoxy is dry.
  • Page 25 7/8” STEP # 36 Turn the Plane over and make Three 6” 5” 3/32” holes for the Landing Gear where indicated at the right. 3” 3” STEP # 37 Put some glue/epoxy on the main landing gear (MLG) and insert them into the holes in the underside of the wings as shown.
  • Page 26 STEP # 39 Glue on gear doors Template 7 and wheels. Hold gear doors in place with a piece of tape until dry. Hold wheels in place with an Acorn Nut. Template 6 STEP # 40 Take Two pieces of 1/4”...
  • Page 27 STEP # 42 If you use a plastic, or wooden, model airplane prop you may find that the hole in the center of the prop is larger than the PS. To reduce the size of that hole you can use a 3/32” Anchor Bolt glued/epoxied into the back of the prop.
  • Page 28 STEP # 44 Form a piece of Can into a cone and glue to Acorn nut as the Prop Spinner STEP # 45 Fill the ends of the wings and the STEP # 46 hole in the back of the Tail section Cut out Template 8 (RA) and glue to with Hot Glue.