Hi Paul

It’ll be maybe a month or so before I can get started, but my Stumax SM110-52 fan unit arrived yesterday. Pics are below. It’s a cool looking beast, and being a pusher style the multi-bladed rotor is at the back whilst the motor wires come out of the front bullet fairing. The cast alloy stator assembly forms a big heatsink which should protect against motor overheating with all the air blasting over the IGVs. I ran it up briefly on 12S and got over 4kW input so there should be enough power on tap.

Meanwhile I’ve been getting some Hawk flying practice with my little West Wings one in the pics below. A funny aspect of this plane is that for equal stabilator deflection each way, the inside looping radius is much tighter than the outside loop radius. I’ve had to make the down elevator movement 60% more than that for up-elevator to equalize the inside and outside looping radii. I was wondering if your and Trevor’s Hawks behave similarly. Like yours it knife-edges well, and climbs in knife-edge too.

Cheers

Gordon