Sky jets video of the Gia-Normans at night.

Gia Normans at Watts 2014 (4 min 16 sec)

We attended Watts Over Owatanna last week. Had a great time out there. Awesome field, awesome food, and awesome folks!

Just so happens that they decided Gia-Norman was the best night flyer. He turns into "Zombie Norman" at night due to 19 meters of green LEDs inside of him, and then of course his red lit up eyes.

We put a watt meter on his lights... over 7 amps and more than 80 watts! Thats quite a bit just for lights.

Laine.

We have had soooo much fun flying these things all together. What a hoot!

After a few successful flights, he now has earned his cow spots. Fun little plane to fly. At 27" span and light as a feather, he still does pretty good in the wind too.

I put a 1400kv blue wonder motor on him with a 3 blade prop. 2 or 3S 500s seem to both do fine.

Laine

Got my Be Be Norman from www.racores.com finished. I still need to add the cow spots to him, but dang he's cute.

27" span depron with a 85 watt outrunner and a Castle Creations Tbird 18.

I now have all 3 sizes of Normans from 27" up to the big Gia-Norman at 7 feet!

I love taking these to shows. Folks can't get enough of the cute buggers.

Laine

What's more fun than a fast warbird? A fast warbird at NIGHT!

Finished up this overpowered GWS Corsair night flyer. It's heavy, but it flys soooooo good. Just don't land slow! 75mph or so on this little sucker at night is a hoot.

Laine

Just finished up this quickie 500 plane on electric power. Using a Castle Creations Vertigo heli motor (1175kv) and a 7x9 prop on 6S, the calculator says 65 amps and for speed it says "holy crap"!

This thing should be a screamer. Looking forward to the maiden flight. I'll test it all out on 4S and a 8x5 prop first. Then I'll go up from there.

Hopefully I won't find the limits of the airframe!

Laine

Just finished my 73" Sig a Extra 300XS that I got from Fireman Bill. Power 160' 10S 5000 and of course, a Castle 120.

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