GMcNair Key Veteran Location: Birmingham AL
| Don't forget about Graupner! And they make fully-engineered scale electric kits when you decide to go scale. Their pod and boom Uni-Elektro is based on the Uni-2000 mechanics. I just completed a Jet Ranger which flies on 30 cells. What an excellently smooth machine. My first flight video doesn't do the heli justice...the curves were not tweaked, and it was a windy day. Now that i've gotten it smoothed out, i'll be shooting new video today. FWIW, the jet ranger fuse and uni mechanics are designed to run .61-.91 glow engines, and Graupner engineered this electric conversion smoothly and seamlessly. "Modular" is a word that comes to mind. Find out more details at http://www.v-eastonline.com/grapElec.html . They also have a ".40" size.
Voyager E--- 0.15
Eolo --- Between Voyager and Eco-8
Eco-8 --- Bit larger than Voyager
Lgo 10 ----- just under 30
Lgo 16 ----- 30 size
Logo 20 -----50 size
Logo 24 Bionic ---- between 50 and 60
Graupner Uni-Elektro, 40 and 60 size
Joker ----- 60 size
Here's a photo of mine, and the link to more photos is Greg's Heli Gallery . The album you're looking for is third from the left, titled "TH-67 project".
These are the mechanics. The only things missing in the photo are the two 15 cell packs (one for each side of the frames). The rx is mounted to a small shelf behind the mechs, but could otherwise be attached anywhere on the mechs set. I chose to move it to the back:
Here are the mechs mounted:
And a shot of the pod and boom configuration:
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