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Electric Stunt => Gettin all AMP'ed up! => Topic started by: Mike Palko on March 30, 2012, 06:32:23 PM

Title: Fancherized Twister
Post by: Mike Palko on March 30, 2012, 06:32:23 PM

A fellow Philly Flyer and friend Larry Wilks is building a electric Fancherized Twister. He asked that I post pictures as he builds which in turn may help others. This will be his first electric as well as his first season flying Intermediate.

The only pictures currently available are of the motor mount. Larry used a 1/2" balsa fuse with 1/32" aircraft ply doublers. The motor mount is 1/4" ply backed up with rock hard balsa gussets shaped to please the eye. The motor mount was then wrapped with glass to tie it all together (not pictured).  

Motor mount front
(http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc465/ekimcl/ElectricTwister002.jpg)

Motor mount rear
(http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc465/ekimcl/ElectricTwister001.jpg)

The power system will consist of the following.

Motor: Cobra 2820-12

ESC: Castle Creations Phoenix ICE Lite 50

Battery: Thunder Power G6 Pro-Lite 2700mah

More to come....

Mike

Title: Re: Fancherized Twister
Post by: William DeMauro on March 31, 2012, 07:23:17 AM

Looks very nice Mike, with your guidance he should be fine. I like those Cobra motors and may use one in my next plane.

Title: Re: Fancherized Twister
Post by: Mark Scarborough on March 31, 2012, 08:46:43 AM

nice,, looks like a great intro plane,,
I started off with a twister tweaked,, it sure did good for me,, To bad electric wasnt around then, ( well affordable anyway)

Title: Re: Fancherized Twister
Post by: Dennis Adamisin on March 31, 2012, 06:00:08 PM

Looks like Larry is off to a great start.  Will he have it by the Fly-In?

Title: Re: Fancherized Twister
Post by: Mike Palko on March 31, 2012, 08:35:57 PM

The Cobra motors look promising. I figured I would use Larry as a test bed. ;)

A Twister will be a capable profile airplane all the way to expert. I think Larry plans to build a full fuse airplane next winter for 2013. That should give him competitive airplanes in both events.

He does hope to have it at the Flyin. He is learning to set the needle (glow) but lacks the confidence when he is alone or a contest. He often misses the needle and that prevents him from getting a good flight. The electric Twister should eliminate that variable.

I corrected the first post to note he used 1/32" ply for the doublers.

Mike

Title: Re: Fancherized Twister
Post by: Bill Little on April 01, 2012, 03:56:35 PM

The "needle" is an important aspect of IC propulsion that is not dealt with in electric.  That is a great selling point! ;D  We have run our set up, but not had a chance to fly it yet.

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