The E-flite Carbon-Z Scimitar is made for the RC pilot who desires flight performance and adrenaline-pounding excitement. Designed by world aerobatic champion Quique Somenzini, the new fantasy-scale Scimitar opens up the performance envelope with an evolutionary compound-delta flying wing. At the heart of the advanced Scimitar is a specially tuned Q-Power system inside a single-axis, [...]
Lately, there have been RC jet designs that perform amazing maneuvers and seem to have something extra. This new breed of agility owes its success to one thing— thrust vectoring. As with full-size aviation, model designers have been tweaking and experimenting with their planes to make them as maneuverable as possible. It’s little [...]
Going by the statistics and facts, RC is a male dominated hobby. RC appeals to guys, and a small percentage of females, but generally speaking (we mean 99%) this hobby is filled with guys. Guys who love to spend money, tinkering, building, and flying expensive RC Planes. Women tend to enjoy other hobbies, and while [...]
The first thing you’ll notice when flying an EDF jet is the lack of propwash over the flying surfaces. Jets rely entirely on airspeed and smooth airflow over the wing and tail surfaces to generate the aerodynamic control forces for aileron, elevator and, if used, rudder control. While flying a jet more slowly, it will [...]
This great review will be in our November issue of Electric Flight, but you get the first look at this nice aircraft! Those who know me at the flying field understand that I have a “thing” for Piper aircraft—Cubs in particular! Piper’s Super Cub has been a favorite of mine for a long time and [...]
Flyzone/ItCanFly has introduced a revolutionary new concept in ultra-light weight ready-to-fly R/C aircraft – Überlites! These aircraft use an innovative, new Snap-N-Fly technology, Uberlites enable pilots to fly multiple airframes by simply exchanging one compact flight module between them with a “snap.” The magnetically attached module contains all on-board electronics: motor, radio gear and LiPo [...]
Check out this video on the new Hitec sensors that now reads the voltage and Amps. All this information can be seen on the Aurora 9 transmitter screen and saved to you laptop in real time.
We just finished shooting this great looking plane. The Stinger II is a smaller version of the Stinger that many of us remember from a few years back. This plane was a great flyer back then, and with the new powerful motors and lighter weight equipment the flying envelope has been improved.
