C-102 Avro Jetliner

The Avro C-102 Jetliner was a prototype aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada in the late 1940s. First flown on August 10th 1949, this was a 4 turbojet engine passenger aircraft that was only beaten to the air by the de Havilland Comet by a total of 13 days (making it the second jet airliner in the world.

Howard Hughes offered to produce it under license, however the project was ended in 1951 before any more could be built. A second airframe was is production but was scrapped before completion.

After the prototype was ordered to be surplussed in 1956, the Jetliner was partially scrapped. Only the nose and cockpit section still exist and are in the care of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa.

(This was lovingly paraphrased from the Wikipedia entry on the plane)

The original plane had a 98ft wingspan and a length of about 83ft. This was model was designed in Fusion 360 based on a set of low resolution 3-view orthogonal images and reference photos.

Future updates to this model will include adding in debossed lines for control surfaces and to help with the application of any markings or livery, but these will come in time.

Print instructions

Category: Vehicles Print Settings

Printer Brand: Prusa

Printer: i3 MK2.5

Rafts: No

Supports: Doesn't Matter

Resolution: 0.15mm

Infill: Yes

Filament: N/A PLA
Notes:

As the size of the STL is quite small due to the ft => mm conversion, I plan on printing the STL at 500x size to give a final model scale of 1:61 to match the Avro Arrow I designed and printed. I intend on printing it in several parts and gluing it up to eliminate the need for any supports.

I will split the plane up into a nose section, 4 pieces for the wing section, and two pieces for the tail section. The nose will be printed with the fuselage axis aligned with my printer's z-axis. The wing section will be split along the sagittal plane and midway along the wing cord. The tail section will be split midway along the cord of the horizontal stabilizer.

I will post pictures of the printing orientations once i get to that stage.

How I Designed This

I designed this model in Fusion 360 for the following reasons:
-I couldn’t find a Jetliner model online
-I had already designed the Avro Arrow and the Canuck model and figured I'm already most of the way down this road.

I used the Sculpting environment in Fusion360. I based the model on some isometric views I found of the plane, which were imported and scaled into 360 as canvases for reference.

The sculpting essentially involved stretching, pulling, pushing simple cylinders into exceedingly complex shapes to define the wings, fuselage, engine ducting/housing, and the tailplane. I intend to add details for decal-ing, and surface details to show the location of the control surfaces.

Any great plane deserves to be displayed and I modeled a lovely display stand to go with the model for just this purpose! This was modeled around an SVG version of the Avro logo I found online, and was scaled with a copy the plane model I had designed as a reference. (Glue may be needed). This is a matching stand model to the one for the Arrow and the Canuck, but with text showing "C-102 Avro Jetliner"

This plane was modeled in Fusion360 in feet with a wingtip distance of 98ft. The STL often is imported with a wingtip distance of 98mm. This gives a scale of ~1:305, but feel free to scale it as you want! The STLs are exported in Fusion 360’s highest fidelity so you shouldn’t lose any detail by making it bigger.