Gettin' ready for some fun in the sun!

Friday, March 17. 2006

Gettin' ready for some fun in the sun!

One of my favorite past times is playing with airplanes... big or small, I love'em all! I just finished working on a new one that is definately on the small end of the scale. The ready to fly weight of this airplane is 10.9 ounces! This type of airplane is known as a foamie, because they are primarily made out of... you guessed it, foam. This particular airplane is made from 6mm depron foam, the wings are re-enforced with carbon fiber front and back to make them stiff. Power is provided by a small electric motor running on a Lithium Polymer battery.

Developments in batteries and flight electronics over the last couple of years have made a tremendous impact to this type of flying. The performace of this type of aircraft is absolutely phenominal! It's a little windy today, so I'm going to wait for a calmer day before making that first flight... but I'm sure looking forward to it.

If you're interested in seeing just how well these little airplanes fly, here is a link to a video on the manufacturers web site. http://www.billyhellrc.com/fomojo.html

Posted by Mike Davis in Airplanes at 15:30 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

No comments

Add Comment

Name
Email
Homepage
In reply to
Comment	Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (word), underscore are made via _word_. Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images. E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly. Enter the string from the spam-prevention image above:
	Remember Information? Subscribe to this entry