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Old 02-23-2018, 11:50 PM
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Turbotronic
 
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Originally Posted by Vmax
The Typhoon is currently the fast fastest electric powered plane with around 600 Km/h.
It is owned by Christian Hidde (he was my assistant during my flights) and Thomas Schmidt.
It is powered by a modified Kontronik motor and 17 lipo cells.
Unfortunately there is no video uploaded yet.
They did some training flights between my attempts.
Awesome! You must have pretty good eyesight to maintain orientation at that speed. Do you use any type of gyro to smooth things out?
Andre