As the name suggests this is another electric powered model, this time it's powered by a "Speed 600 Race" It flew very well until I got cocky one day and tried a manoeuvre too close to the ground - Back to the drawing board.

R.I.P.

The crash wrote off the fuselage and tailplane but the wing was only slightly damaged on one wing tip. I kept the wing with the thought that I would re-build it one day.

Well I have actually made a new and modified fuselage The new fuselage has a chin to get more air in to cool the motor, ESC and battery. I also made the tail end deeper to hopefully make it knife edge better, but alas it didn't.

It now has an estimated power to weight ratio of somewhere in the region of 1.75:1. It goes as fast vertically as it does horizontally supplying a large grin factor :o)

A 10 second motor run vertically and it is a dot, then you can do 20-30 seconds of off power aerobatics. With this type of flying the motor, ESC and battery are only a few degrees above ambient. A 10 minute flight as described above uses around 2,400mAh from a 3,700mAh pack.

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