OK guys, the last of us three Anderson  brothers went electric today.  Gary Anderson installed a Turnigy 35-48 900 KV motor, Castle ICE-50 ESC, Hubin F-2a timer with a 4000 mah, 20 C, 5 S battery in his Stiletto and went flying.  His plane flew great and I think he was quite happy with the performance.  He has been struggling with nitro engines in this plane that he just could not get to run well or consistantly.  That airplane really flies well as an electric stunter.  Cudos Gary!  Welcome to the wonderful world of electric control line flyiing.  We actually had more electric powered planes at the field today than nitro powered flyers.

Best wishes and good safe flying.

Roger Anderson

Hi guys,

Roger is correct the plane flies better, more constant, a lot quieter. The only thing that sticks out is a item that looks like a door bell. Push the door bell and it makes a sound like music, the prop whirls around for a second, stops, then you have to walk out to the handle, stand there looking, like me, then the prop starts whirling and away ya go. You wouldn't believe that the little electric job pulls harder than any of the fuel powered engines I've had in the Stiletto. Roger checked the rpm's after my first complete flight and it looked like the rpm's were straight as an arrow across the screen on the computer. Tomorrow I'm going to just push the door bell wait for an answer and fly the pants off of the Stiletto and by the way, Mr. Les McDonald's design flies better than anything I ever owned but don't tell Les I don't want him to get to big of a head, ha ha. I think Les is as old as I am and my brother is older than dirt!!!!! Roger thanks for all your help and all your parts, Gary ( I didn't have to change much, just made a mount out of metal in place of my fuel engines. I'll try and post some pictures, just to give ya a laugh.)

Those pesky bugs!
They don't slide off without the lubricant anymore
Dean

Gary
Welcome to ECL  the power system kinda fades into the background and you just go fly - sometimes BORING is good!  Can also take advantage of a short-timer to work out any remaining trim issues.  Make a tweak, do a short flight with a couple tough manuvers in it, land tweak some more.  When you get what you want put in a fresh pack and get to work again!

I have not seen this listed anywhere - are you using a pusher prop?

Hi guys,

I'm trying to post a picture of my Stiletto/with Electric Power. The Stiletto is a great flying plane using fuel or electric but I do believe that electric is more positive, with my Stiletto. My brother, Roger, has set the electric up for me and he did a great job. The plane is flying five second laps on 63' lines, motor runs right at five minutes thirty-nine seconds. The motor runs very quiet and you can hear the governor pick-up when needed. Thank you brother for your help and suppling the parts, Gary