Gordon Tarling's Fantrainer

Gordon built his sport-scale RFB Fantrainer from an enlarged plan drawn by Ian Brown.   Wingspan: 47", weight: 3 lbs, power: Astro 035 FAI, prop: 3-bladed 5x4, battery: 7x2000

Gordon gets 5 minute aerobatic flights with this plane.

Contact Gordon via email: gtarling(at)ndirect.co.uk

Ron Fikes' Guppy

Ron's latest: a "Guppy".  Power is a 6V Speed 400 motor, geared 1.85:1 via a Graupner #1703 gearbox.  7 cell 500 AR pack, 9" x 6" Rev-Up prop, Jeti 10B ESC, Cirrus CS20 servos.  300 square inches of wing.  All up weight is 21 ounces.  Blue covering is Ultracoat "Light", yellow covering is Black Baron transparent film.

Richard Plavnicky's E-Models

Richard's "Hummingbird", a sport/pattern model with a fiberglass fuselage and foam core wing.  Power comes from an Astro FAI 05-6 turn motor and a 7 cell pack of 1000 SCR cells. 

 

This Astro Mini Challenger has been modified with a new, lightweight fuselage and tail.   Richard is using a Graupner Speed 480 motor and gearbox combo (GR6501), a 10x8 cam prop, 8 Sanyo 500AR cells, 2 HiTec HS-80 servos, and a Futabe MCR4A receiver/ESC combo unit.  The all-up weight is 25 ounces.  Richard says the climb with this set-up is "awesome" and can log 45 minute flights off of the 3 climbs available.   Wing loading is 8 ounces per square foot.

Richard added 1/4 inch washout to the wing tips to improve slow speed handling and recommends this modification to others.

 

An airplane quite familiar to readers of this site: the Ace Cloud Dancer.   Richard converted his using Jim Bourke's canopy modification for improved looks.   Power is an Astro 25G motor on 16 1700 SCRC cells spinning a Graupner 13x6.5 prop.   All up weight is 6 lbs 5 ounces.

Contact Richard via email at: STALLTURN(at)aol.com