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| E-flight Blade Mcx - indoor helicopter | 12 minutes on a single charge |
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| ParkZone vapor - Ultra-lite | Kyosho Cessna 210 - ideal first indoor model |
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| Hot wire cut pink foam ME109 | Hot wire cut pink foam DH 88 |
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| All powered by a single LiPo battery - Hornet | PowerHouse - Hot wire cut pink foam |
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Most of these planes have been designed and built by Dave Cholerton, a former RR employee from Derby. Dave is an active member of RR indoor club that runs the Alfreton indoor meetings (currently closed for hall refurbishment). All aircraft are full house radio control, and surface deviation is via 'home wound' coil actuators, and power attained from a tiny geared, brushed motor / 4" prop combination and a single cell LiPo battery. Full sized radio transmitters provide the control, with Tx crystal control in the flying halls. All photo's supplied by Dave C.
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| RE 8 - Hot wire cut pink foam | Unusual for indoor flying, a pusher, cut pink foam |
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| Sky Scraper - Built from balsa and covered in Airspan | Depron built, full house aerobatic Pitts |
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| These three models are from the hanger of RR MAC member Chris Foster. The Citabria is a 2.4 g RTF model from Kyosho that flies out of the box. A brilliant intro to Indoor flight, whilst the other two took a little more building time. | The top left is a 16" span, 2.4g Citabria (22 g) whilst the Depron SE5 (30g) and Balsa piper Cub (35g) are 35 meg R/C models |
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| Another Dave C model - this time an Auster | Kyosho Cessna 210 - 2.4 gig, 15" span and 18 grams |
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Dave C again - A little tired as it is now third hand..... but still an excellent flyer. 20 minute flights on a single 135 maH LiPo cell. Geared motor and hand wound coils for control. Receiver is a 35 meg MPS device - mail order from France |
This is a Falcon Models 'Stingray' kit. Uses the breezeblock radio and servo system. A cheap and easy set-up, and loads of options for a varied model characteristics are possible. |
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Left. Just a .5mm Depron wing with a thrown together fuselage and tail feathers. Single cell LiPo and a geared motor. control via a pair of hand wound coils Above are two of Dave's creations - mentioned previously |
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Cessna and Stingray- Spektrum Transmitter for scale |
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A 19" Bi-plane weighing in at a massive 130g all up. 16 gram brushless motor, 6 amp speedo, 2 cell LiPo and 2.4 gig Spektrum radio powering two 5g servos. Very capable power set-up, but a pulse racer on the maiden flight. |
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31" polystyrene and Depron built Tiger Moth.
This example uses a 25 gram 2 cell LiPo, and a GWS 280 geared brushed motor.
Control via a GWS Rx and 2 x 5 g servos. Currently weighing in at 179g, but
with a brushless refit due soon, I expect the weight to drop considerably.
This model cost a mere £6 inc motor from a Swapmeet, proving that an introduction to Indoor 'Slow flying' can be cheap. |
