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You can download this mesh here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1947457 My preliminary explanation of the SkyFry. Silly name - I know, at least until I can come up with something better. Basically it's an attempt to model a modern aircraft by the lowest budget means possible. (Hard to beat the price of Blender.) Yes, I know it's not using CAD or any engineering analysis tools, but with a development budget approaching $0 it's hard to beat the feature set of a 3D modeler. So the overall idea is to section this off into fully 3D printable parts with integrated internal supports that can be glued together. The size to be determined by fitting template models of aileron servos in the wings and/or the motor in the nose. (Maybe even adjusting for the battery?) As this develops, I'll also offer another version based on the original base-mesh in case you're not interested in the puller-prop configuration. I'm also curious about the flight behavior of this aircraft. As it has some compound wing forms in its blended-body design. Not only does it transition from a diamond-wing to swept back, but the chord and angle of attack varies over the length of the wing. Not only should wing-loading reduce going outward from the fuselage, the idea is that it should have improved stability characteristics in flight. Unfortunately, I'm not in a financial position to produce this aircraft with 3D printing gear and RC components myself. So any future development will be a process of collaboration, or perhaps via independent remixing of the design. (It's released under terms of CC/BY.) Feel free to contact me about this project through messaging here at YouTube, over at Thingiverse, or even on Reddit. You can try your luck with my hotmail email, but it may be a while with all the spam it gets.