David Andersen: Minnesota's own
Mr. S cale displayed his progress on the IAR 80 Fighter Aircraft project.
(1941)
The plans are coming together and Jeff
Miko is creating the fiberglass fuselage
and parts. Dave displayed a molded
cowl and several of the specialized
parts that Jeff has produced.
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Jeff Miko & Phil Schwartz are
producing the first two prototypes.
The aircraft has a platform similar to a
modern RC pattern aircraft so it is
expected to fly well!
The retractable landing gea r
looks very similar to the P-51 gear so
nearly any P-51 gear will work for it. |
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Brandon Archer brought his
Freewing Models MIG-21 Electric
Ducted Fan.
It is a very detailed aircraft and
Brandon is adding styrene gear doors and
access panels to improve the look.
It comes with a 12 blade fan so it
sounds really nice! He's also
adding afterburner lights and "NERF"
whistles to make it look and sound
better as it flies by! |
Brandon is powering
it with (2) 3 cell 5000mAh batteries in
series and expects 4 minute flights. No
flights yet but well report when it
does! |
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Jeff Edstrom displayed his
1/3rd Scale LeRhone Rotary Engine
mock up for his Balsa USA 1/3rd Scale
Fokker Dr-1. It was built from a
Mick Reeves kit (from the UK) and only
cost $40 delivered.
It looks like it will
weigh 2 # so it will replace some of the
6 pounds of weight that Jeff has inside
the cowl to balance the model. |
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Roy Maynard demonstrated the
sound system he's putting into his
electric proto-type of David Andersen's
new 1/4 Scale Hawker Hurricane design.
This unit and speakers are built into
the lower radiator scoop and simply
bolts to the aircraft and is then
connected to the radio
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for control.
It was originally loaded for an Me-109
but Roy found the code to reprogram it
to sound like the Merlin engine and
Hispano 20mm cannon. |
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The system was supplied by
www.ModelSoundsInc.com and is
powered by a 6 cell 1000mAh lipo battery
to provide up to 30 minutes of sound.
Roy's Hurricane prototype is almost
ready for paint but Roy does not have
access to a Paint Booth.
If you have access
to a paint booth and can allow Roy to
use it, please contact him! |
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Joe Neidermeyer: brought in his
electric JU-87 Stuka project. He
was looking for 'something scale' but he
did not want to count rivets. This
kit started life as a Sky Shark kit
designed for .40 sized nitro engines.
Joe did the conversions and replaced
many items including the cowling,
inlets, and canopy as they were not
accurate for the aircraft. |
Joe had done a lot
of research and pointed out that the Stuka was a 1935 design that evolved
from Ernst
Udet's visit to the USA where he
witnessed a Curtis Demo of dive bombing
and realized the importance for low cost
accurate bombing.
The Stuka ul timately
arose from that visit. Joe
glassed the airframe and painted it
using hardware store house paint.
It weighs in at 7 1/2# and looks great!
He's powering it with (2) 3 cell 2700mAh
batteries in series. No flights as
yet! |
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John Baligradski displayed his
31% Miles Messenger Plans. He
had fell in love with the unique lines
of the aircraft and found a set of 101"
span plans from the UK.
He then had them enlarged to 132" span.
The tri-tail has (3) vertical fins on
the horizontal stabilizer and in this
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model the stab will have a 48" span!
He's looking to power it with a DA-50 cc
and probably fly it at 1/2 throttle.
A
similar build is taking place on RC
Scale Builder website and they expect it
to weigh about 25# pounds.
John has a machinist friend who will
build the unique landing gear for him. |
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Lake Microsystems has done it
again! With accuracy to plus or
minus 1 mph there new Realtime
Airspeed Tracking System means
you'll never worry about stalling
your R/C Aircraft again!
The system is
compact, light and lends itself to
flexible installation in most R/C
aircraft 40 size and above! Each
Airspeed unit comes with a sensor,
remote transmitter and the "Spoken
Link" receiver.
Specifications Sheet
The Spoken
Link receiver reports audibly so
pilots don't have to take their eyes
off the aircraft to no its speed!
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Prototypes have been successfully
tested and production will make this
product available in early spring of
2017. If you'd like a jump on
the market, feel free to contact Jim
Lake directly. Email:
jelake@harbornet.com
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