An E-Sledge is born to help with the long winter.
 

Through a lot of research, and asking questions as well as a requirement for seemingly endless finances, the winter will be shorter up here in Alaska. I also get a lot of questions about Alaska so I had this one airbrushed with a mountain background. It is hard to find anyone to do this and this was her first attempt. Not quite what I was looking for but she tried really hard.

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This thing is a Blast to fly. I have had trouble finding a place to fly indoors, more trouble than I thought it would be. They did let me try it in the Ice rink and that was cool.

I am not used to flying a plane with a throttle response this instant or with this much power WOW. The only down side to flying outside is the batt only lasts about 5 minutes before I don't have enough power to hover and the servos get lethargic. So the indoor hunt will continue.

Oh yeah in the pic the temp was about -8 F

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I see your Electric 3-d chip is workin for ya. Welcome to the E-side

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Could you post your specs?

Thanks

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Well the kit is from Jeff Williams and He could give you more specs than I could.

The onboard gear is a Himax 2115-4100 with a GWS EPS 300-C gearbox with D gearing.

Castle Creations Phoenix 25 AMp speed control

GWS pico+ servos

E-Tech 3S 1200 Mah Batt.

GWS 4P reciever.

What a performer STABLE in a hover and harriers great. It also does this tight rudder turns that you can climb or decend with throttle control. Puch the power and it goes ballistic.

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Not to mention they will tr like crazy! I flew jeff's last weekend, and was totally amazed at the performace of these little birds.

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Good looking E Sledge!!! I am getting ready to take an airbrush class in the near future so I can dress up my E planes. Jeff Williams

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For the love of Pete, get Spnr enrolled!!

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I'm with you Chuck, btw Havent heard much from him lately,,,,,,, you think he's been practicing?

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Claims he's been "Working". Yeah, working on his indoor/paint jobs. :D I don't think he was ready for cameras/other people.

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Actually Keykey and I are taking the airbrush class together. He has been working alot lately, as have I. He has not been practicing, that I know. It will cool to see how this class helps our schemes, I am excited about learning more airbrushing techniques as I know none now. I wonder what a Keykey scheme would look like, any ideas Chuck? Jeff W.

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Hey Lom... That thing looks great!! I'm just putting an e sledge together I made out of BlueCor... I traced my buddy Jess Rozman's e sledge.. I'll probably do one for Gator tooo

Got a chance to fly one of these Tuesday... I can definately say, it's the best e bird I've flown todate.... Blows the trident and my flat edge in the weeds.... Can't wait to get mine done.

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Yeah it's a hell of a machine, I am having some problems with the carbon popping off. but I have a theory that the temperature changes might be a little responsible for that.

Composites are awesome for tension loading but not so good for compression.

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I built mine with C/F tube .180". Just routed a groove part way through the foam for it to lay in. It may be marginally heavier than the I-Beam, mine came in at 12 oz. even. I showed it to Jeff and he said it was a lot stiffer than his. It will definately take a hit.You might keep it in mind for your next one. If you get as cocky with yours as I do with mine there will be a next one[:@]
Off subject: I just got a package from Morris (Sledge kit):D:D:D:D:D

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The groove in the foam method I used for my 3DX worked out pretty well. I did not route it but instead sanded the groove in plave then used Elmers Pro-Bond and it worked out prettey well. Too bad I don't really care for how it flies though. (compared to the E-Sledge)

I felt that the I-Beam was a lot stiffer than the carbon tube, but it seems to be more prone to failure. Not catastrophic failure just annoying. I happen to have some more depron and carbon tubes laying about so maybe I should put them to good use :eek:

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Glad to hear you are all having fun with the E Sledge. I have an extra E330 about ready. need to do a couple more mods and it will be ready. We are scheduled to fly January 31 indoors so that will be the next time I get to test the Extra. As it is right now I love it, just trying some stuff to see what it does performance wise. I will keep you all posted on this extra. Jeff Williams

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That extra is a sweet plane as well. Of course all I really did were upright harriers, and hover/TR's. So I can't comment on soem of its other qualities. Jeff sure made it look good though! But then again, he could 3D a 2X4! :D

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brian have u got a plane together for the 31.

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i just need lipo's and a charger. I'm getting there. I will be in charlestown tommorrow for the swap meet also.

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cool me to.
maby ill see u there

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Working my arse off is right. I just got home from work about 10 minutes. This is the first time Ive even had a chance to sit down and browse RCU in 3 weeks. Dave, I really wish I had beeen practicing....whether it be airbrushing or flying.

Now I just hope I can make time for the airbrush classes that Ive paid for and are non-refundable.

Hey Dave, Im still trying to make the fly-in on Sunday even though Jeff Willliams is going to be tied up. Tell me something....is the place going to be larger with a longer period of flying time that the golf dome? The only thing I have to fly is the E-Sledge and she's not going to tolerate much more abuse. She has maybe one or two more mid-airs in her before she'll be forced to retire. If I come up it will be with Now_Torquin and Tom Millet so maybe if I have to retire my only flying bird they'll let me fly their's.

Oh wait a minute.......That's Now_Torquin Im talking about.....He'll be down for the count after the first 20 minutes...DOHHHH!

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Tailspnr, Its not quite as big as the dome but we have it for 8 hours, 9-5.
Glad to hear your coming, and Tom will like it I know the small gym at home was a little tight for his first indoor.
We should have a bunch of 3-ders in attendance. And a strong showing of PRO BROS:D:D
If you guys need directions let me Know,

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Dave, I definately need directions to the event. I havent looked to see if I still have the flier that you gave me up in Indy but I'll look. Couls use the directions anyway. I spoke with Now_Torquin last night and he said he wont be abke to make the event. I'll be calling Tom to see if he wants to come up with me.

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Here's some pics of my E-sledge. I love it.

1. Low Knife edge Pass.

2. More knife edge.

3. Bottoms side.

4. Jess Inverted harrier with pauly upright.

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#3 and #4