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24" Speedy Dust and the 6S 35" Dust. -
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EM Dust rebuild is on the left. On the right is a new 20" Dust running on 4S. -
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Bill Evans Polestar from an Eureka short kit. Since this picture all the sanding is complete and ready for covering and canopy install. -
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Ultimate Kaos from a BlueJay short kit. Power will be a RimFire .46 turning an 11 X 7 prop on 6S power. RTF weight is looking like92oz (5.75 lbs). If I can build it straight it should fly great! Glassed the center toaday 3/10/23 -
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SunFly 5. Finally managed to come up with a cowl installation I could live with. The SF5, Kaos and Polestar all have cowls held on by 4 small pins. I did the final sanding with the cowls installed. Still have the Kaos to do. -
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Another build from 2022, The ResDart. Electric powered 2 meter glider. It flies very well - just different from "normal" gliders. -
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The first 3 gliders are also new builds from 2022. Astro Flight Mini Challenger 60", Tetra 2M and Astro Flight Challenger 72 - all electric powered gliders. -
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Cowl separated from the fuselage and added ply wood end plates for the pins.
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Dust Lite 24's, same w/s and sweep just a distorted view from camera optics. The 1st had a Medusa inrunner while #2 has a Cobra 2217/8 outrunner. Both powered by a 3S 1300 Hobby People battery, 8 years old and the new one does 75-80 mph. -
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Sundays flight line up. The VQ Twin Otter is a great flying plane! Each of the Dusts got in one flight a piece. -
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35" 6S D Dust under construction. Installing cleat blocks with 26 degree angled side for the angled rudder fins. -
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Angled fins sitting in place. These will be epoxied in place after covering. -
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Cleats in place, receiver and antennas mounted and routed. Initial programming completed as well. Usually the servo arms are on the inside, I wanted to mount the elevon horns further from the ends for better leverage. -
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Top sheeting in place and the fins are just sitting in place.
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The new battery for this is a Liperior 3S 1800. It is only 25C rated but the FOM is just over 1! (as measured on a LiPo ESR Meter Mark II at 72F) Close to 130 mph and a phenomenal roll rate! Guys at the field call it the flying Drill Bit. -
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Stopped working on this 2 years ago. 6S Roaring Top 3700's but I have some 3300 Liperior batteries coming that promise better performance, time will tell! This will be heavier than my 4S Diamond Dust setup, looking forward to it flying! -
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Miss you Joe Bridi! Sun Fly 5 bare bones with maybe 4 more hours of work and then ready to cover. W/S is 61" and length is 59". Original w/s was 65.5". It has some other mods including Electric power for motovation. -
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Yes, still doing old school drawings by hand! This is a Dust 2050 (20 inch w/s 50 degree sweep) for 4S 1550's. Planning on one of the new BadAss 2315-2300 motors from Innov8tive. Using Liperior 4S batteries, I really really like them!
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This is the Liperior Pro 1600 4S cut down to a 2S. 18mm X 34mm X 67mm and 100g. I used 12GA wire (stock) but the next4 packs I build will use 14GA wire which is more than good enough for my purposes! Easier to work with inside the plane as well! -
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18" with a 50 degree sweep back. Jet Screamer results were 41.6Amps 7.64 volts 320 watts and 23,200 rpm with a 4.5 X 5.5 APC prop (a cut down 4.75 X 5.5 prop). -
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Dust 24" Lite Single Fin. Inexpensive Cobra motor, cheap old (but still useful) 1300 3S lipo and did I mention light weight? -
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All 18" Diamond Dusts. The two in back are 45 degree the front is the new 50 degree. The Green and Orange use Jet Screamers, the Purple uses a Permax inrunner so it is a bit heavier but just as fast with a good battery! -
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At the field today (Monday 9/7/2020). Flew the 35" (in back), tested the 28.5" (Golden yellow) . Did not run or fly the others (18" Dust 50 and Micro Dust).
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The Purple one in the middle is 35" w/s. The Dust in front has....dust on it! 24" w/s The one with the Red fins is 28" w/s with special wind JS 1400 on 4S. The Orange one is 18" w/s and has a Jet Scream motor powered by a 2S 1600 -
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Micro Dust, 247 grams ready to fly and 16" w/s. Roaring Top 2S 1300 for power (a better battery would let it fly faster but then it would be over 250 grams in weight!) Little Jet Scream motor & Talon 35 ESC -
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35" w/s Diamond Dust ready for covering (Deep Purple on top and Red / White checkers on bottom. Maxx Products HB3630-1500 inrunner powered by a 4S 3300 Liperior battery.