A Skyclimber has just arrived from Hobby King's U.S. warehouse!

I am illustrating assembly and the eventual flight on RCG here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1627553

I've been following this thread for a few weeks ,as I'm thinking about buying a Sky Surfer , but want to fit another Rx into it, how much room is there ...

Originally Posted by mu2freighter

I'm of the same mind, but if it came to it, if you shop around you can pick up a Champ fuselage with electrics for around $30, not too painful to get a brick, motor and gearbox.

I'm thinking of buying full internals from one of the aileron planes. Then I could transfer everything without too much hassle. Today I installed a new aileron servo since the original was really twitchy. No chance to fly it yet.

Skyhawk: there's plenty of room to put new stuff in. Look on YouTube for skysurfer upgrade, a guy put standard servos and rec/esc in without too much trouble

Originally Posted by Febtober29

Skyhawk: there's plenty of room to put new stuff in. Look on YouTube for skysurfer upgrade, a guy put standard servos and rec/esc in without too much trouble

Thanks for the reply..

Had a look on Youtube ,
could only find this
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Nine eagles skysurfer upgrade (1 min 50 sec)

Not really a lot of info.

Sean

Anyone using one of these Nano's in the Nine Eagles..

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...dproduct=22906


Sean

I bought a couple of 370s actually. They fit but I haven't flown it yet.
I wish the video had some more details too.

Originally Posted by Febtober29

I bought a couple of 370s actually. They fit but I haven't flown it yet.
I wish the video had some more details too.

Yeah... more info on Brushless motor upgrade / ESC / Prop size..

Sean

Originally Posted by skyhawk newbie

Yeah... more info on Brushless motor upgrade / ESC / Prop size..

Sean

Here are Elvill's rec's as your starting point.

Skysurfer uses DSM2 Hobbyking.com Parts
10g HK 2000kv bl motor
3x 5320 1.7g servos
6A plush esc
415 rx
4ch


Prop:
gws 5043 is great for extremely long runtimes as long as you use a 350 2S or bigger

You can see his videos here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1592502

Mine has all of the stock parts, just placed a carbon rod in the canopy area for bracing, and with a clever install standing them up I am running the Zippy 350's with no issues.

Originally Posted by gentle ben

Here are Elvill's rec's as your starting point.

Skysurfer uses DSM2 Hobbyking.com Parts
10g HK 2000kv bl motor
3x 5320 1.7g servos
6A plush esc
415 rx
4ch


Prop:
gws 5043 is great for extremely long runtimes as long as you use a 350 2S or bigger

You can see his videos here:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1592502

Thanks Ben , thats the sort of info I was looking for..
Sean.

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I run with the Zippy 20c 350 and it works great just stock, flies forever. Braced some with CF in the cockpit area and wings as well, I will try and get some pics on here soon of it.

Just ordered a Skysurfer and two Zippy 20C 350mAh to go with. I'll add my usual http://kewlartdesigns.com Suisse sticker set and give a it a proper sailplane look, might even drop in a light pilot figure. I really could have flown one of these on my holiday to the coast of Maine last week! One of our campsites was right on the water of Belfast Bay and a steady breeze all day, would have been nice sloping, my 2meter sailplanes are two big to carry around. Photos as soon as it arrives, here's a really nice video I found.

Cheers, Thompson

Helitec'- Nuevo modelo de Nine Eagles ( SKY SURFER ) (1 min 29 sec)

Found another good video

BMI - Sky Surfer (1 min 24 sec)

And another video I found of the same talented pilot (not me), kewl little plane.

Helitec- Nuevo modelo de la firma Nine Eagles Sky Surfer (Video 2) (1 min 31 sec)

...and the last one for the evening. Zillertal Tirol, Austrian Alps hanging with the big boys.

robbe Sky Surfer im Zillertal (3 min 25 sec)