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Latest Pictures:

  • Dave making a donation to the Westpac rescue helicopter
  • Trents raptor 50 doing some low inverted hovering
  • Shanes raptor 50 in hover

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  • Trents raptor 50 doing some low inverted hovering
  • Shanes raptor 50 in hover
  • A new Raptor 90 with a great paint job
  • The Raptor 90 also has the new 3D canopy
  • Jody's Raptor 50 after another crash
  • The Raptor 50 with the usual damaged tail and carbon blades
  • The tail really got cutup on this Raptor 50
  • The three Rebel placegetters from 3DDU 2005
  • An orange Raptor, complete with painted blades and finset
  • This Raptor really stand out in the crowd and looks fantastic
  • Jeff B lost a tail rotor blade grip on his Raptor 50 during flight, here's the result
  • 1 cracked SAB blade on Jeff's Raptor 50
  • Closeup of the cause, the tail shaft failed, resulting in the loss of 1 tail blade. The vibration broke the tail case in two during flight
  • Here's a great shot of Reece hoving his Raptor 30 low inverter
  • Download the video of Reece hovering his raptor low inverted from the audio/visual page!!

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REBEL HELICOPTER FUN FLY

6th and 7th August

  • The westpac rescue chopper just after landing
  • The tail of the westpac chopper
  • The nose of the westpac chopper
  • Spectators and pilots checking out the westpac chopper -> Picture 1, Picture 2
  • Jody's micro T-rex in a stable nose in hover
  • Download the video of the westpac chopper and its flybys from the audio/visual page!!
  • Download the video of Jeff B putting his raptor 50 through its paces from the audio/visual page!!
  • Download the video of Ben J doing low flips from the audio/visual page!!
  • Download the video of Jody trying to fly his Raptor with the gyro tunred off from the audio/visual page!!

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Wagga heli heatwave 2005

A turbine powered kangaroo gave a demo flight at Wagga. Unfortunately after loosing radio contact the model crashed heavily.

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  • Peter McHeyzer's new Zap400 electric 3D heli.
  • Guy's folly. Boom strike! Guy was that keen to fly, that he drove into town, bought a crash kit and rebuilt the heli on the field.
  • A close up of Guy's damaged Tail boom.
  • Trent's super modified Raptor 50.
  • A full view of Trent's Raptor.
  • Trent's Dragonfly is dwarfed by the Raptor.
  • A front view of the Dragonfly and Raptor.

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Wagga Heli Heatwave 2004:

Wagga heli hetwave 2004 had approx 90 helicopters in attendance. Flying over 3 days at Wagga field, with indoor flying on saturday night provided a great weekend for all who attended.

  • Aliens painted canopy. The best paint job I have ever seen on a heli.
  • New JR Vigor GSR camera heli.
  • Electric Fury, powered by a large outrunner and allot of nicad cells.
  • Electric Raptor 30 with home made conversion.
  • The Electric Raptor 30 is powered by a C50 and 2 lipo battery packs.
  • Our very own Jason Szabo, won this JR Venture 60 kit in the pilots draw.
  • The heli Lineup, many high quality well presented machines in attendance.
  • Jeff's new Raptor 90 hovering.
  • Another Raptor 90 came down hard during the weekend.
  • Not much of the Raptor 90 wasn't damaged.

Here's the large pit area, had to take many photos to get it all in:

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  • Dragonfly and Hummingbird.
  • Dragonfly and Hummingbird picture 2.
  • An E-heli, seen flying around at the 7 cell comp in Canberra.
  • Another shot of the E-heli.
E-Heli

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Thundre Tigre 90

Jeff Blunt has visited our field with his new ship, that he flies for Kelletts Hobbies.

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Some more shots of Trent's GWS Dragonfly helicopter and his upgrades.
  • The Dragonfly with the windscreen painted.
  • Dragonfly minus the canopy, showing the radio gear.
  • Trent's home made head stiffener on the Dragonfly.
  • The Dragonfly 370 motor upgrade and heatsink.
  • PG-03 Gyro and GWS 5 channel receiver installation in the Dragonfly.
  • Tail motor and drive unit of the Dragonfly.

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We recently held a Heli muster at our club and I got a few photos, from the day.

  • A shot of Graeme's Intrepid Bergen Glow (I think) chopper.
  • The Intrepid from above.
  • Graeme's Bergen Gasser. Powered by a zenoah G26 and runs all day on liter of fuel.
  • A couple of guys working on their Heli's.
  • There was a pretty good range of Heli's on show, including this Raptor and a Fury.
  • Here is a Robbe and a Fury.
  • Trent had recently re sprayed his canopy on Raptor and added lots of shiny bits.
  • Another shot of Trent's shiny Raptor. Unfortunately it is now in many bits.
  • What is left of Trent's Raptor, after a slight pilot error. The ground just jumped up and grabbed it.
  • A close up of the destruction. Not a healthy Raptor. Repair bill is between $150 and $200.
  • A shot of the boom, where the Raptor blades struck.

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Trent bought himself a new heli to play with whilst he was overseas. Obviously the snow boarding in Canada wasn't good enough.

  • The Dragonfly in the hotel room in Vancouver. Only took 2 hours to put together with a steak knife (only tool available).
  • First flight of the Dragonfly in Nelson B.C. Temperature was a few below zero. Fingers were freezing.
  • Lookout for the Snowman, not your usual flying obstacle here in oz.
  • Here is his new GWS Dragonfly at the field back in oz.
  • Revving up his Dragonfly for lift off.
  • Hovering his Dragonfly.

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Caliber 30

Flying from the 10th of January 2004


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