I have these propellers paired up with the 1507 motor and it provides more than enough power for my Kestrel that I bought here as well. Amazing plane and these propeller blades do lay very flat. They don't look like they're wide enough to really move the plane but they do a great job and no rubber band needed to hold them flat, they just stay that way in flight.
I am buying another pair of these propeller blades to go with my converted Vortex 3.
Unfortunately all UAVs here over 100g have to be registered and the code transmitted from the UAV in flight. I was looking for some time for a powered kit to challenge these rules and the Sugar Glider turned out to be the perfect candidate. At 100g the slow speed performance is really fun and forgiving while the airfoil still has plenty of headroom for speed and penetration.
The total structure came in about 25g lighter (60g) which meant a smaller motor (1104) and battery (2S 250) could be used.
It`s not going vertical but good enough for 5 - 7 decent climbs plus a safety margin.
I bought my Medina 1 electric glider red and white from Armsoar and the equipment including Armsoar powertrain 1806, 3 KST 06 servos, spinner and prop blades GM 6.5x4 from Hyperflight. The major change I made is using the Hyperflight carbon push rod system 1.3/2 instead of the strings. The plane with battery ready to fly weights 485 grams. The built quality is very good.
The plane climbs steep with the installed powertrain (50-60 degrees) and the flying behavior is wonderful even in slightly windy conditions, this bird's circling is excellent. With the spoiler open the Medina has relatively neutral landing behavior. Absolutely great investment, the Medina is strongly recommended. You should have one! Thank you, HyperFlight, for always offering good stuff!!
The replacement was received promptly and in excellent condition and fitted my Hyper2m e perfectly.
Whether ordering a full model or just a few bits of hardware Hyperflight always delivers the goods well packaged and on time.
I really appreciate their range of quality hardware. Control horns, ball links, folding props etc etc. Good quality hardware is increasingly difficult to find these days.
Arrived soon, without tracking information though. Had to pay customs on arrival, which adds to an additional 12,- Euro in Germany. For me it´s worth more than all this, perfekt product!
I will put it in the Boo of Robbe. Will have to make adjustments on the fuselage.
Nice quality and flies great! The only thing was, for a standard layup the tails were VERY heavy...I need to add 20+ grams in the nose to get 66mm CG. Final weight came out to 241g. With servos and electronics pushed as far forward as possible. Still a great performer, Just was expecting something lighter for a standard layup...
The plane launches higher than other F3L planes I have. Workman ship was great. On the pre build plane I purchased. The spoiler position allows for great landing and control. I have ordered another purito. I would recommend the purchase of the Purito F3L sailplane,, it’s great to fly!
I am very happy with the quality of the wing and the fit and build of this plane. It went together really quick and flying is effortless. This plane signals lift just as well as my Vortex 4 and it thermals beautifully. It has no bad light characteristics and mine came out to 303 grams and it feels very light and floaty in the air. I get plenty of thrust with the 1507 motor paired with the 6x4 prop, also using the 2s550 to get a perfect balance with no added weight to get the CG right.
I really enjoy flying this plane and I love how well I can get it to slow down at landings for a very predictable and stable approach and landing.
Can't wait to get this into competition next month!
The only complaint I have is the lack of instructions. Where I missed this was in the wing joiner/locking. I ditched the supplied plastic locking gadgets for heavy duty paper clips. The plane handles well. I am still trying to figure out how to best program and control all the surfaces. I also have a Intro F5J wing I want to build to swap out in the field depending on conditions.
I enjoyed building this model. Easy to follow video. However, I ran exterior servo rods and fiberglassed the fuselage. I ended up with adding a little tail weight but it's a solid controllable model. I did have to work out a warp in the wing due to improper covering. But it's a blast to fly and looks nice.
As I write, I am part-way through the build. The plain box arrived very promptly from HyperFlight, and contained a full kit of hardware and nicely laser-cut woodwork.
Disappointingly there is no profile jig for the leading edge, or even a picture of what one should look like - I will attempt to make my own.There’s a good single-sheet full-size paper plan showing the wing and tail construction, but for all other build information you have to visit the Angelwings website, which contains an excellent illustrated guide and a link to Nick Chitty’s instructional YouTube videos.
I found the tail surfaces and fuselage went together very quickly, but I have hit a couple of snags with the wing. Firstly the mainspars are 3.2 mm thick (1/8”) but the corresponding notches in the ribs are only 3mm. So all 42 rib notches have to be modified, which takes ages and is difficult to do accurately. Secondly, the online instructions suggest pinning the mainspar and trailing edge flat on the plan, but this would make it impossible to achieve the required droop at the trailing edge. Apparently most builders ignore this, but, being a bit anal, I will build a jig of some sort.
Everything else is looking good, but I may add leading edge sub-ribs and find an alternative to the retro rubber-band wing mount. I’m proposing to fit a small electric motor and Sugarwing folding prop, also supplied by HyperFlight.
Usually I would wait until after a few flights before posting a review. However the product reviews have been so helpful to me in glider selection that I choose to post the information at the stage of almost completion. Most reviews of the Eli are very positive. I hope after flying I will love it. The problem is motor installation. I believe all they have done is taken the glider version and drilled the forward bulkhead for the motor mount. I saw many other reviewers used the DYS motor and mentioned it was a tight fit. Actually it will only fit if you take a dremel tool and remove a lot of structure. If I knew in advance I would have widened the front a few millimeters. I notice the new CLM Res 3 is sold in both a glider and powered version. I assume that means its modified for the motor. They are both light and similar structure. If I had it to do again I would be tempted to go with the Prime res 3 or seek Neils advice on the matter.
First, Hyperflight got this thing to Colorado USA in five days. Excellent service Neal. Second, As far as the kit goes it's a well designed thought out kit that should fly very good. The problem is the laser cutting, You'll send some time getting the parts out in one piece without breaking them. Patience is required.
I haven't quite finished the build of the Infusion yet, but so far I am really impressed with the build quality, plans and ease of the build.
Shes got the looks of a fast model with a good presence so I am eager to finish her and and get her airbourn.
Thanks Neil for providing a great model!
looking for an intermediate span glider and so decided to go with a Forza. there are not many reports on this plane, but found the quality to be excellent. as expected and reported in the limited threads servo installation does need thin servos, and a little fiddly for the elevator and reshaping of the clevises. kit is supplied with harness, push rods and clevises. Not yet flown, but eagerly waiting for the right conditions. would I buy again - yes.
Very lite but needs care before applying heat some sections cut to cover wings split before I could apply my heat iron ,to be honest some of the covering seemed not the same consistency. Great product though..held up to the light to make sure maybe just unlucky could be a flaw
The servo frames and arms were a perfect fit, and were perfect for their intended use, flaps and ailerons for an NG2M.
Unfortunately, all of the supplied pushrods were unusable as they were all too long for purpose.
This was not the fault of the product. All of the pushrod lengths were clearly indicated on the HF website, i just did not pay enough attention.
As usual, the service was first class, Thanks HyperFlight..👍
So, please refer to my previous 5-star review dated Jan 5th below. Nothing to change in that review. But, alas, I was attending Joe Nall and decided to fly my Introduction on very windy day. My lack of experience kicked in and I porpoised it behind the "burm" at the electric line. It went in head first and the fuselage and one external wing broke. So, undeterred, I immediately ordered another kit to rebuild what was broken - that's how much I love this glider. Amazingly, I ordered it I think on a Saturday from my RV at Joe Nall and by Weds it was it delivered (UK to Duluth, GA, USA in about 3 days)!! I think maybe the folks at Hyperflight felt sorry for me because my first one didn't come as fast (LOL). But super service. The glider is rebuilt with some improvements (expanded hatch per this youtube video I found: https://youtu.be/LeRUmLoDva8?t=154 ). I re-maidened it today and it was magnificent. Love it. Thank you Hyperflight and Gruner.
This motor was purchased for an F5L model, in this case an Eli. I wanted a motor that would give a really good climb even with full ballast using a 2 cell LiHv 70c battery. Combined with a 10x6 GM prop it gets to 100 metres altitude in 15 seconds with 130 of ballast on board. If I used a lighter motor I’d have to add some lead to the nose so it makes sense to use this one. The 25mm case is a nice fit in the fuselage. This motor, plus Dualsky X30 Esc. with a 10x6 prop and a 2cell battery is a great combination.
I purchased 6 of these for an f5k build as they seemed perfect spec wise and they are, well the ones that worked anyway.
3 out of the 6 are completely dead and a 4th has a really bad glitch so will not be used.
Now I'm going to add I had modified the leads of the servo's (killed my warranty) but this is kind of standard to get rid of unwanted excess wire and connectors, I'm also going to add I'm a electronics/communications Eng: so I'm not bad with this kind of thing.
2 of the servos are faultless, perfect, really fast and I mean really fast and they re-centre every time back to perfect centre... so why do 4 fail and 2 don't please read on ill make it brief lol.
So I did some investigation and found that dry joints on 1 were to blame a friend of mine had this exact same fault but the others were a little more complicated.
The potentiometer internal of the servo has a fault, either a crack or break of the internal bored (i'm not pulling it apart to look) it'd need a microscope to find it, I do have the equipment but i'm not overly bothered as I know what the fault is and couldn't fix it resistor even if i opened it i'll just change the pot at some point or keep them for spare parts.
Now the amazing bit..... All of the above and more was reported back the CHA them self's and the response was nothing short of fantastic and there's many companies that could learn from it.
The reason...... not a quibble infact offered to send me some servo's as replacements, I didn't have to ask or beg they offered straight away now that's customer service, Patrick at CHA was so helpful and did everything he said he would do no Bulls*** said he would sort it out and get back to me by the Monday Am and did, my servos are on there way to me.
This sort of thing does not happen often and is totally out of the control Hyperflight and the most part CHA themself's.
all's well that ends well.
Bought these booms fof Free Flight contest models and noticed that they aren't straight (about 1.5mm out over 800mm lenfgth)- post- cured off the mandrel? No problem so long as you're aware and presumably irrelevant for their intended RC use.Otherwise very nice, quite stiff for the weight, nice hard cure.
2nd review entry, now flown it a bit more. Loving going to the local field in a lunch break and having a few flings. This is my first DLG. Already getting away from 15 - 20m launches to 45m and 5 min flights. Now I am getting the hang of it, I expect to be getting much longer higher flights soon. Such a loveley and rewarding gider to fly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iz04pI5zEU
Not impressed. I was using with a standard servo arm (as per glider manufacturer build log). The first problem was once the clevis is installed that then interferes with one of the screws so I could only use 3 of the tiny screws which wasn't ideal. Then because they are small I found that once I'd removed the screws a few times while fiddling with the install that I'd somehow stripped the thread in the frame for another screw. So the servo is now only held in place with 2 screws (and the bearing end). Ended up putting a bar over the top of the servo to help keep it held in place by the bottom wing surface.
I don't normally bother writing reviews because most of the stuff Neil sells is good stuff, but this appears to be one exception. I'd probably have been just as well off using simple wooden ply frames.
What a superb quality kit! Drawings are a work of art and the parts super accurate. German instructions incomprehensible but the English translation available through the Hyperflight link is perfect. Assembly is easy if you've done anything of the FxRES type before, but even if you're a novice builder it won't present too much difficulty. The only small criticism of the model design is that there is no easy provision for ballast and at this light weight it will be needed in anything over a 10 mph breeze. I moved the fuz mounted servos forward to the bulkhead which creates a space of about 35 x 35mm on the c of g for the depth of the fuz. I plan to make up 4 or 5 x 35x35 square lead plates with a centre hole and thread them on to a bolt installed under the wing seating. It means leaving a hatch in the bottom sheeting to get access to the area. I haven't flown it yet as its awaiting wing covering but I'm sure it will go great!
As per usual from Hyperflight, this was through the letterbox the following morning. Great!
For those suffering from servo ‘tremors’ due to a receiver’s telemetry signal, I can say that this servo is totally immune to this common issue with more ‘budget’ similar sized servos, and especially when using Frsky (or even Jeti) radio.