THE NEWEST FROM SKYFOX R/C
Here's the new Me163 variant - the "ME163-e"; this is my designation for an electric powered variant that has been morphed to use an 8" or 9" folding prop on an extended slim nose. It's at 39-3/4" wingspan as shown in these photos, with an overall length of 26-1/4". The 'e' is for electric, eliptical, and efficient. Click on the photo above to jump to the KOMET page, where extensive details and many photos of the build sequence can be found.
Above: The 32" wingspan YAK55 EPP as finalized, with all rear fuselage anti-twist bracing in place, and the Doculam wing skin overlays in place- flying smoothly and handling great! Flying weight is at 6-5/8 ounces. Click on the photo above for a look at more photos of the construction and more of the specifications for this design.
It's amazing how aerobaticly this Rudder / Elevator aircraft can fly. The 24 degree dihedral setup allows for this type of agile handling response. She will roll very rapidly, loop in a very small amount of sky-either inside or outside- and does inverted flat spins very nicely. She recovers from any attitude quickly. And with a flying weight of 4-1/8 ounce, and a wing area of 1.55 square feet, the FLIRT has a wing loading of only 2.7 ounces per square foot, so she can slow down beautifully. The underbody and tail skids act as effective vertical stabilization when flying in high-alpha atitudes.
(Elevons are ineffective on a aircraft with this high dihedral layout; there are lots of high performance elevon designs, such as the MANTA OMEGA and ACE designs. The Flirt was designed to be highly aerobatic using only rudder and elevator.)
Oh- the name??? My wife came up with it, and it FITS! The FLIRT is a resilient girl that just Loves to flirt with the dirt- and flirt with the trees- and flirt with the bushes- she can't hardly wait to play in the snow! My kind of girl!! Click on the image above to jump to the FLIRT's page.
In the photo above, it has a 9 gram motor mounted with a GWS 6030 SF prop; it was a bit weak on performance with this motor. In early Dec. of 2008, I replaced it with a ~18 gram motor, which gave it the power it needed to perform superbly! I'm flying an APC 6x5.5 propeller on this motor, and flying a 3S 620 mAH battery pack.
The SPINNER 20 is somewhat based as a scaled-down version of my very successful 30" wingspan SPINNER, which I designed in November of 2004. It is also partially inspired by the 'Shark Bait' design. It has a wing, tailgroup, and upper fuselage which is built of Bluecor fanfold foam, while the under-fuselage is made from EPP. It features very lightweight landing gear made from 2mm CF rod, and employs wing tip plates.
The Zarkanian Scout Ship is likely one of the easiest-building RC aircraft I've designed to date... and it flies superbly! You may want to build one for yourself! I'll provide enough in the way of plans and instructions so that a modeler should be able to do that. The base design criteria is to KEEP IT LIGHT & SIMPLE! The material you use will have a bearing on the weight, structural strength, and longevity of your Zarkanian Scout Ship. It's all about trade-offs, with a certain flight performance envelope in mind.
SOARBIRD is a 61" wingspan slowflyer / thermal cruiser built in a stylized soaring hawk shape. It was designed to look a lot like a hawk or eagle from below when it's riding thermals above. (I've wanted to do one something like this for a long time!) There are already a few other bird-like designs of varying complexity; what I wanted to do was to come up with a design that would be relatively easy to build, without complex airfoil shaping or any hot-wire cutting. SOARBIRD II is a 52-1/2" wingspan version with elevator and ailerons / spoilerons, which is far more agile in windy conditions. For more information and the build sequence photos, click here to jump to the SOARBIRD page.
On December 4th, 2006 WOODSTOCK had his trike floats quickly remounted, and went out for some snow flying!
I did a rather extensive kit bashing project on a WILD WING; the photo above shows the results. Click HERE to go to the WILD WING project page.
The Spinner is a 30" wingspan, 12-5/8 Oz. flat plate airfoil plane made from BlueCor, set up with a brushless motor system which is producing 16 ounces of thrust; it flat-spins easily & recovers almost instantaneously, and is capable of amazing maneuvers. It's set up "0-0-0", for neutral stability... it's not a plane for novice flyers, but it does performe very well in the hands of an experienced pilot. For details on how this plane is built, visit the SPINNER page.
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Hello, and welcome to my RC Flying Web Site. My name is Bruce Stenulson. I started flying RC gliders in the Mountains of Colorado (On the face of the Lake Dillon dam ) in January of 1982. I started building electric powered aircraft in 1984, and have designed many planes for E-Power. I first flew a 'wet powered' RC aircraft on January 7th of 1990, when I built my Telemaster with float flying in mind. I've since designed and flown many wet powered aircraft, and continue to design and build both E-Powered and wet-powered planes (although the majority of my aircraft are now E-powered.)
June 12th, 2006 is the tenative date for the SPARCS 2006 Float Fly. Here's a photo essay on High Altitude FLOAT FLYING, featuring some more recent photos of high lakes and float planes. There's also a lot of info on float design and setup.
In 1990, The South Park Area Radio Control Society was established as AMA Chartered Club # 2774. Click Here For information on SPARCS, including links into an extensive photo gallery of pilots, aircraft, and flying sites and events, as well as links to other RC flying clubs in the Colorado region.
I enjoy slope flying, and have offered a variety of information on slope flying aircraft and flying sites in the central Colorado Rockies. The EPP foam slope ships available today are incredibly durable, and can handle rough landing areas that built up balsa gliders can not. It's revolutionized the opportunities for "Extreme terrain" slope flying.
The SOUTH PARK SLOPE FLYING SITES page has been periodicly updated, with more new photos of some of the EIGHT slope flying sites presently listed on this page. The last addition includes 6 new photos of the Hoosier Pass / North Star Mountain Slope Flying area at 12,230 feet elevation. I think you'll really enjoy these new high resolution photos (and the information about this exceptional slope flying area!)
In the spring of 2004, the NIGHT FLYING page was expanded, featuring information on setting up a newer, higher intensity light weight LED lighting system for night flyers. This is particularly well suited to Park Flyers and Slow Flyers, as the entire setup is in the 1-1/2 ounce weight range, including the separate lighting battery pack I'm using. Click here to go to the "Night Flying" page.
10-29-98 update; I've added the begining of chapter 2 to this web site; Not much input & feedback has been recieved on this project, so it's on hold for a while longer... While the chapter is unfinished, I've decided to offer what's already done. ENJOY!
