Most quick twins around here start life as a foam kit or a balsa plan, so a fully 3d printed airframe with retractable tricycle gear feels like a different road. What makes it more interesting still is the lineage: the maker set out to double up an earlier single motor airplane and add landing gear, and this red twin is the result.
The layout reads cleanly. A central fuselage pod carries two booms, each with a forward-mounted tractor propeller. Out back, twin vertical tails are joined by a horizontal stabilizer, and the wings get down-turned tips plus yellow flame graphics along them. The retracts are electric mechanical units, with the wheels folding upward into bays inside the nose and the twin nacelles.
On the day it all came together well. Twin electric brushless motors pulled the model down a paved strip, and once airborne it ran high-speed fly-bys, climbing passes and banked turns at 110mph. The maker reckons 140 mph might be within reach, and said the aircraft flew better than expected.
The landing is the sore spot. What was meant as a controlled descent turned into a very rough touchdown, put down to not enough elevator with the flaps down. The maker called the elevator soft and reported no other quirks. How the flare gets sorted for the next landing is still an open question.