Petrel Personal Floatplane
Client: Lorem Ipsum Private Vehicles Co.
Designer: Henry D.
Problem:
The current Floatplane market is mostly dominated by 50+ year old Bushplanes with very few options in the personal sector. These few options either lack a close cockpit, carrying capacity or ease of transport
Design Statement:
I plan on designing a personal Floatplane with an enclosed cockpit with carrying capacity for two. The design will allow for it to be stored around easily and potentially even be compact-able to be road transportable.
Constraints:
The physical dimensions of this model prototype may be a bit large (5.5 x 4.5 inches) but much of this space will be taken up by empty space and thin elements and should not take up as much material. The first three days will be used for planning and sketching up a prototype, the next two and a half weeks will be used for creating the prototype in Inventor and the last half or so week will be allocated for polishing the design and doing anything that may have been forgotten. Current budget estimates for printing are not available.
Deliverables:
By the end of this project, a 3D printed Prototype may be available along with the Inventor assembly file of the parts as well as individual part files for each of the parts. A portfolio page along with a reflection will also be done. A prototype sketch is already available below: