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Performance Flyers is a radio control model aircraft club
that promotes flying,
training and building R/C model planes,
helicopters,
gliders, scale, and
indoor electric. We have a
lot of activity in both indoor and outdoor helicopters.
There has been a tremendous increase in the technology in
gas and electric helicopters. There has also been an
equally big jump in the technology of indoor and outdoor
electric airplanes. This makes both of these activities
very interesting to participate in as there is something
new every day. The two most important improvements in
electric have been the brushless motors and the new
Lithium Polymer batteries. With these two improvements you
can increase the power to weight ratio to a point that
will give unlimited vertical performance. I have
personally been very involved with indoor flying. I have
found some types of airplanes that can be used for indoor
flying which can do both acrobatic and 3-D flying and most
important are almost indestructible. The two planes that I
have found to be best for this are the
IFO and the
Revolution 2.
The IFO can be flown in a very small area and can do loops
rolls and inverted flight but is not as good at maneuvers
like the torque roll. Although it does not revolve in a
torque roll if you add a rudder to the plane it can hover.
The Revolution 2
can do the torque roll very well but is harder to fly in a
small Gym. The IFO gets it’s strength form a carbon fiber
frame covered with ripstop polyester and the
Revolution 2
gets it’s durability from the use of EPP foam. The EPP foam lets the airplane bend when it hits something but it bends back without breaking or deforming. While on the subject of durability I might mention the motor/gear train for the airplanes. When we used to fly with motors that had brushes in them the motors had to turn at a higher RPM to make their power. This meant that you had to have a gear reduction because they
couldn’t turn a larger prop that was necessary for good vertical performance. Unfortunately every time you hit something it would either break or knock the gear train out of line. After repairing the gear train it was usually necessary to run it for about a ½ hour before the gears would wear in and reach maximum RPM. By that time you would hit something else and have to start all over. Now however you can purchase an
Outrunner brushless motor that can turn the bigger props without a
gear box. This eliminates all the hassle of keeping up the
gear box and the plane will run at maximum RPM without any
wear-in or break-in time. When you use an Outrunner motor
with the EPP foam or carbon fiber/ ripstop polyester
planes you will have eliminated almost all of the upkeep
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