I was at the WRAM show in White Plains, NY on Saturday. One vendor had a new indoors (can be flown outdoors..) 3D electric. What a neat plane this thing was. It's sort of odd looking, but it performs as good as, if not better, than some of the indoor foamies, flatties, electric planes that I've seen in quite a while.

After their demo flight, several of us from our club, that were there, bought one. We accounted for several purchases of this pretty neat plane that day. It would not surprise me to find out tha they sold out at the show.

This plane is perfect for gym flying. The way they desgned the frame is they have a carbon fiber rod that supports the wings and also acts as a cage for the prop. They were doing some pretty intesting maneuvers with this thing at WRAM. The room was very enclosed, yet the pilots, not pilots from Light Flite, flew the thing. Just about every 'crash', collision, anything, resulted in the pilot simply picking the thing up and hand-launching it again. They used the prop cage to nose up to the cieling and hold it there, on the nose of the plane. Neat stuff.

It's a great bargain. You can get the model alone for (this is show prices, probably slightly higher after the show) $49.00. They will also sell you everything you need.. EXCEPT the RX.. (yeah, servos, motor, ESC, battery, even glue..) for $149. (again, these were show prices, but I imagine that you can get pretty good pricing after the fact)

The instructions are very detailed, and, as I said, you can get everything for the price shown. I started the build today. I expect I will be ready to fly the thing by Tuesday or Wednesday (I can only dedicated a limited amount of time to building because of other obligations. Someone that has the time could build this thing in perhaps 3 or 4 hours. It uses Blenderm tape for hinges, by the way, and they offer some interesting hints for building that I wish I had 6 months ago.

Take a look for your self. The web site is

www.lightflite.com

Well worth taking a look.

DS.