A.
- Shawn prepping his super flash,
carbon fibre, F5B Absolute.
- Shawn Screwing the wing on this
Absolute.
This beast is powered by a brushless motor and really climbs like
a rocket.
- Shawn and his Absolute.
To look at the Absolute you wouldn't know that this is a glider.
- Fly by of the Absolute.
- The Absolute
Gliding into a banked turn.
- The Absolute
coming in for a landing.
- Another shot of the Absolute
landing. Notice the crow braking!
- Another Safe landing completed
for the Absolute.
- Trent has started to get his Absolute together. here are two Pictures of what it looks like.
(The Absolute from the top) and (The Absolute from the side)
- Macr's electric Albatross.
- The internals of the Albatross,
speed 600 motor.
- Macr modeling his Albatross,
a very nice flying electric glider.
- Launching the Albatross,
good flying characteristics make self launching easy.
- Macr and his Albatross, after a wet flight.
- Macr Removing his key after another successful landing of his Albatross.
- Macr's new Albatross
B.
C.
- Grant's
Crazy Eight. This shot is taken after a crash as there is
only one blade left on the prop.
- Grant's
Crazy Eight. The bottom of the crashed model.
- Shawn's little electric Cub
- Shawn showing us the size of the small Cub
- Lining up the Cub on the runway
- The Cub takes off for another flight
D.
E.
- Michael's Easystreet.
- A shot of a lot of Electric
flight packs. There's about 12 8cell packs here. Exactly what
you need for a full days flying.
- A few of the lads talking about the finer points of electric soaring. Dave Cornish, holds his E-Prophets wing.
- Rob Rutledge's E-Zugly, awaiting launch.
- A shot from the rear of the E-Zugly.
- Rob holding his E-Zugly.
F.
- Practicing his low flying skills with the Fatboy combat wing.
- Brian's Fatboy combat wing just missing the target.
- A Direct hit with the Fatboy and the cans go flying and the wing keeps on flying.
- Another hit, got the witches hat this time, Brian couldn't fly his Fatboy out of this one.
- You never land the Fatboy, you always catch it at the completion of a flight. Brian just before a catch
- Another successful Fatboy docking procedure.
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G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
L.
M.
- A shot of the Mefisto
on Landing approach.
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Shawn's new electric Mefisto.
This is a Sky Affairs glider, which as you can see can be electrified.
Shawn has set it up so he can swap nose cones. This allows him
to choose between electric and glider option. Here
is a link to show you how you can do this to your Sky Affairs
glider.
A new shot of Shawn's Mefisto,
with the nose cone removed.
- Follow the leader. Minimus
following the Prophet.
- Rob Rutledge's Minimus.
Speed 400, I think.
- This shot is a personal favourite
of mine. Don't you think the Minimus
looks like a Peregrine Falcon?
- Rob and his new S2G
Minimus.
- A Minius
hotliner glider owned by Trent Collins. The model spans 1.5m,
is powered by a Velkom 24/10 motor, 35amp Jeti controller and
7 x 1700 SCR Nicads. This model has an amazing climb ratio given
the motor can be purchased for under $100 australian. Here's a
shot of the Minius
under power.
- The Minius
electric hotliner, resting on the tarp.
- The Trendy
electric glider resting on the tarp.
- Minius
and Trendy, both model approx the same size.
- Here is a couple photos of Paul Gibson's Minius.
This electric plane is a hot liner designed for more pylon flying
than anything else. Photo
1 and Photo
2.
- Paul Gibson's Moonraker.
This nicely shaped electric plane has a fibre glass fuselage and
a foam core wing. If my memory serves me correctly it is powered
by 18 cells. Paul could you e-mail me to inform me of the motor
installed, please?
- Paul Gibson setting down his Moonraker.
- Paul ready to send his Moonraker skyward.
- Paul's electric Moonraker power aircraft.
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Shawn's new Motor glider.
- Close up of the cockpit on the Motor glider showing the two pilots.
- Rear view of the Motor glider. The motor glider is powered by a speed 400 size mega.
- Looking along the wing of the Motor glider.
- Motor glider taxiing on the field.
- Shawn bring the motor glider in for a landing.
- The Motor glider about to touch down.
- A good shot of the Mystery.
- Trent Checks the flight controls whilst Paul holds the Mystery up.
- Paul trying out for the javelin throw. Shame he has to cheat, by using the Mystery as a javelin.
- Paul ready to throw the Mystery.
- Paul holding the Mystery.
- Paul and Shawn discuss the construction of the Mystery.
- The newly imported Mystery electric glider. The Mystery spans 2.3m for speed 600 power and is available now from East Coast Gliders and Electric.
- Trent Collins holding the newly completed Mystery. Initial flight test proved to be very promising, with the Mystery showing great promise.
- Paul Collins and the Mystery.
- The Mystery resting in the setting sun, after a successful test day.
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Grant Schofield's Mega Mugi
Mayhem. This thing is stupidly over powered.
This shot shows the motor temporarily
removed to repair some Crash
damage. As you can see, there is next to no damage If this
isn't a sales pitch for the toughness of core flute, then I
don't know what is!
- Mick holding his Mustang
Reno racer post flight.
- A better shot of Mick and his
Mustang.
This thing is powered by a speed 400 and flies really well. If
I remember correctly, it only cost $125 with motor.
- Macr has bought himself a new charger. The Master Instruments (MW7168) Charger, can be bought from Battery World. Find out more about the MW7168 from the people that make them, Master Instruments. You can download the instruction manual and more from this site.
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- The Nebula
2000 electric glider, speed 600 powered.
- Taylor holding the Nebula
2000. Another good ARF glider that flies well straight out
of the box.
O.
P.
- Dave Cornish's electric Precedent.
- Dave's Precedent
on climb out.
- The Precedent
gliding past.
- Dave's electric Precedent
after a hard landing, strange wing dihedral cause by the bent
wing joiner rolling.
- Dave Cornish and his E-Prophet.
You may think it is the same as his glider, but Dave has made
a whole new fuselage, designed specifically for the electric motor.
- This view of the E-Prophet,
shows the cooling vent on top of the canopy. Dave was contemplating
adding more cooling vents as the system ran a bit hot.
- E-Prophet
in flight.
- A detail shot of the Workings in the E-Prophet.
If I can remember correctly it is powered by a speed 500 with
a 4.5 to 1 in line gear box.
- E-Prophet's
Battery location. The hole at the back is one of 4 or 5 cooling
vents, located under the battery. Another point of interest is
Dave feels the nose is too short and that all the gear had to
packed up the front and extra weight added.
Q.
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Macr's new Quant 7 cell competition glider
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Looking along the wing on the Quant
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Molded tail plane on the Quant. The Quant also has a carbon fibre/fibre glass fuse and a molded center panel
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Carbon/Kevlar D box with carbon capped ribs and carbon trailing edge on the Quant
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The beautiful construction of the Quant wing panels
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Quant tips have a large carbon spar
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Macr looking very happy with his new Quant
R.
S.
- Shawn's new Silky Wind electric old timer
- Front view of the Silky Wind
- Top view of the Silky Wind, showing the open wing construction
- The Silky Wind on a slow fly past.
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Shawn's new Sokol mini hot liner. The Sokol is fully molded just like the Absolutes.
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Shawn's Sokol and Absolute from the front. The Sokol is approx half the span of the Absolute.
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The Sokol and Absolute from the rear.
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Trent's Absolute and the Sokol.
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The two Absolutes and the Sokol.
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Shawn holding his new Sokol. The Sokol is powered by a 'timed' speed 400 motor and is capable of nearly 100mph in level flight on this speed 400 motor.
- Rob's Supernova in action.
- Something a little different. Macr charging his Rx battery on Trent's Supernova 250s.
T.
- Steve Truscott holding the Tiny.
A number of members ordered a number of sets from Model Drafting
Services.
- The view from above the Tiny,
showing the positioning of servos. Note that each rudder on the
V-Tail is attached to the aileron in front of it. Steve has decided
to go back to a aileron/elevator set up.
- Profile shot of the Tiny.
- One last view of the Tiny.
Once again from above.
- Shawn's new FVK Trendy,
powered by a Hacker brushless motor.
- Tail setup on the Trendy.
Using 2 servos gives both elevator and rudder control.
- The size of the trendy is shown by Shawn holding
the Trendy
in this shot.
- A great picture of Shawn's Trendy
on a fly past. This shot makes a great wallpaper for your desktop.
- Grant about to launch his Tucano.
This is powered by the brushless motor that was on his Mugi. As
per norm Grant is attired in his japanese safety boots!
- A close
up of the Tucano.
- The Tucano
power plant. A Mega ST brushless motor.
- Grant at the controls of the Tucano
as it flies by.
- Unfortunately the Tucano
had a argument over air space with the ground. Can you guess who
won?
- Never
fear, Grant is sure he can get her going again.
U.
V.
- Darren has made the move to electric. Here he is resplendent in his Malaysian safety boots holding his Virage.
W.
- A speed 400 Windstar
owned by Brain Lindsay. This is an ARF electric glider made by
Pro-tech.
- Brian holding the Windstar
to show you the size of the model.
X.
Y.
Z.
- Here's a shot of a Zagi,
Zagi 400x, and a Tucano. These models are all made of EPP
and are powered by a speed 400 motors.
- Bob holding his Electrified
Zugly. For more info on the Zugly, see the glider page.
- Rob Rutledge's Zagi
with the electric mod.
- Close up of the E-Zugly.
- Rob showing us the Internals
of his E-Zugly.
- Rob prepping his E-Zugly.
- Rob and his E-Zugly.
- Grant's latest project is a Mega brushless (5 turn) powered Zugly, running on 8 CP1300 cells
- Here is Grant with the Zugly. It has a short wing span and carbon spars
- The motor installation on the Zugly, uses a water cut aluminium plate, set into the wing with epoxy. Very simple and easy installation. The rest of the gear is hidden inside the wing
- The Zugly wing on a fly past. Vertical climbs are possible, along with a very long run time from the efficient brushless motor
- Trent's night time flights with his Twin Zugly wing. On the first attempt they didn't have any glow sticks, so they just followed it with a torch
- Second night flight with the Twin Zugly. This time they had some glow sticks, a torch and some sparklers. Temperature at time of flight was a chili zero degrees
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