I had the opportunity today to meet Chris Hinson President of Extreme Flight Rc
at the CCRC field in northwest Atlanta.
He brought two of the new planes his company is producing.
87” Yak. And the 65” Extra.
Kevin Hamilton and his son Patrick had with them a profile Edge that Chris’ company is producing.

First impressions of these planes was how well built and covered they were. Very nice schemes on all three planes. The construction is EXTREMELY light and well done.
There is no overbuilding on them at all. At one point Patrick showed me the canopy hatch on the 65” extra. Just some sticks and foam. You cant put a twist in it if you tried the structure was very rigid. I picked up the wing panels on each plane and all of them were lighter than anything I have seen in that class. All of the panels are built up wood.
The stabs on the Yak are removable. And what was really nice to see was that the wing panels on the profile are also removable making it super easy to get into a vehicle.

Kevin and Patrick let me have a go at the Profile Edge. This plan has a Saito 1.00 in it.
I don’t remember what they said the weight on this plane was but it flies VERY light.
The huge surfaces make throwing it around in any attitude very easy.
Chris had told me that medium rate elevator was better for high alpha but I had forgotten that.
It had a little rocking to it but as soon as I got it
into medium rate it locked in really nicely. High alpha rolls were almost too fast but once
you get used to the timing on the rudder it was great. There was just a touch of pitch
coupling in knife edge to the belly but Chris and Kevin both said that when the plane was
new it had zero. In reality, compared to other profiles out there it was much better than
anything I have flown in that aspect. I guess this one had had some minor damage to it
the other day and they said it couples a little more now. I still didn’t think it was bad.
The Saito 1.00 seemed perfect in it. 1/3 power or less for hovers and TR’s. Rocket
climb outs.
I am sure when these planes start hitting the market there will be people putting huge
motors in them but IMO it doesn’t need anything more than what I saw today. They are
built light and are designed to fly light. Heavier motors are just going to kill the
performance.


Chris then flew the Yak. That boy can FLY! Wow was my first impression. He is very precise and made that plane look awesome in the air. He did some very aggressive blenders with it and it was winding up pretty good. Chris even blips the throttle on it on the down line to keep a good amount of speed up as he enters it. Really cool to watch and the plane loved it.

I got to try it out a little bit later and it’s an unbelievable flier with a DA-50. I think Chris said it weighed just under 15 lbs RTF. That puts the wing loading somewhere around 24 oz/sqft. Try and find a plane out there right now that is even close to that….
You wont.
Snaps are super crisp with NO over rotation, Down lines have very consistent speed with very little build up. Knife edge had almost no coupling at all. I figured it had already been mixed out. I found out later that there isn’t any mixing in it at all. Very nice!
3D with it is lots of fun with the combination of light wing loading and a DA-50.
Basically, I couldn’t find anything I disliked about the plane. Well, maybe that it wasn’t mine…
Same holds true for this plane as I said about the profile. Guys will stick huge motors in them but its just not needed. The extra weight of an 80cc motor will ruin it IMO.

Chris flew the 65" Extra once and it also looked like it did very well with the new YS 1.10 in it.

I took lots of pictures today but am not at home till Thursday. I will post them that night.

Thanks again to Chris for letting me try his stuff out. Also thanks to Kevin and Patrick for letting me fly the profile and the Fiberclassics Extra...