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You can get them directly from Jeff Williams...

GEAR
 

Wreck, just send Jeff a Email. Tom

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I got carbon fiber gear to fit most profiles of any brand. Email me for more information. [email protected] thanks Jeff Williams

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And the gear sure is tough! I have throughly stress tested it!

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Wayne - Where did you get the graphics for this bird?

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Kirbys

They made mine from pictures of my 29% Edge. Now all you have to do is ask for Sledge Graphics and they have them ready in the computer to be cut.
They can change anythign you want, color, size etc. I think I paid 35 bucks for the set.

A friend of mine did his Sledge excatly opposite of mine and used the same set of graphics..

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Pic of the twins.....

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Big Brother and Little Brother.....

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We have a logo for the sledge. It is not available yet but if you guys bug Deb and Robert at Morris I think it will come to life faster. Now, I am not telling you what to do just a hint. I cut mine from black ultracote and it was pretty easy. Jeff W.

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I will definately bug Deb and Robert about the logo.... Jeff - do you have any pictures of yours with the logo you made?

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Paul, I can email it to you or Gator designed it you could get it thru him. Send me your email address and I will email it to you. I should be able to get a picture of it posted tonight or tomorrow.
[email protected] Jeff W.

Get a pic up..
 

I haven't trimmed mine..or even settled on a trim scheme...so I might be interested depending on what it looks like..

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I can post it here if jeff gives the OK....gator

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My email is [email protected]

I'd love to use the new logo...

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Send me an email at [email protected] and I will send you the logo. Jeff W.

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Plane Bender and I built 2 of little jewels. You really need to focus and get it done. This is one of my best flyers yet. We made a couple mods as you will see. I wanted the fuse as strong as possible so it could withstand full power blenders. We skipped the pull pull in the fuse and mounted Hitech HS 5245MG digitals in the tail. I beefed the fuse around the servos to take the stress. We mounted the servos about 9-10" from the tail to keep from shifting the cg to far back. 440 rods and no problem with 70 degree + throw ! We also used minis in the wing and made strong supports their as well. We used fx46's w/ ultrathrust mufflers. They both came in about 4.5 lbs and are unbelievable. With flapperond dialed in and 3d rates this thing is an animal. Compared to other profiles this one is the leader!

Glenn

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Here is another pic of our planes

Bottoms up
 

Here is a pic of the bottom. Thanks to the people at UltraCote this is now a little easier. As a note we had a building party and the two of us framed these up in a day, and covered them together the next. Not bad for a 2 day (long day's) effort

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Those look sweet!

( Kirby's owes me a free set of graphics! )

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Those Sledge's look awesome! What did you use for the canopy?

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Very nice.... Looks sweet!! What did the finished weight come out to?

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Wayne, thanks.. When I called Dennis he pulled your plane up and we just made a few changes.
We used Chrome trim sheets for the canopy, and the planes both came out at just under 4.5 lbs.

They are very stable at slow speeds during high alpha maneuvers and hover nicely. Not the easiest ship I have to hover but still one of my best. I have not flown other profiles to compare with but compared to my other fun flys of the same size and weight it outperforms them all!

Glenn

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Yeah its a cool plane. Jeff did a good job with it.
Its hard to go to the field without it...

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Chrome strips? Coulda fooled me. From the picture it looks like you're seeing right through the canopy, insead of there being a refelction. Nonetheless it looks very nice!

GOOD WORDS GO ALONG WAY!
 

Hey you guys, Thanks for all the positive vibes! They were alot of fun to build and are more to fly. If you look close you will notice that we just had to strech out the lenth of the canopys to convert them to the "T" model, Because you know those "T's" just 3D better (lol) :D Were looking foward to installing our new CF gear on those babys and struttin out to the field this weekend if the weather aint too hot. (CALIFORNIA JOKE) sorry snow dudes. We have been so busy flyin our pizza things we don't know weather were comin or going these days. By the way if anyone wants one I built alot of them , Just e-mail me. Those are cool, I'm putting together a viedo right now and this week hopefully we will get very big winds and lots of rain, Them things are waterproof you know :drowning: GET IT TOGETHER GLENN! BENDER SAYS NO ANCHOVIES PLEASE*