Exactly!

I only fly electric, and with every thing there is a learning curve, if your willing to spend some time and money, you will be awarded greatly with electric. Just not having to clean that oily crap off your plane, your hands and out of your lungs is a huge advantage that the electrics have.
And if you are worried about a motor springing to life fo no reason, that only happens from interferance. MOst speedcontrols have a "cutoff" if there is no constant signal for more than 1 sec, it shuts the motor down automatically. There is just as much chance for an IC to go wacko, than an electric,

No deadsticks,

quiet, yet very powerful,

And with the polymers batteries, if you treat them right, they will treat you right. A polymer will not explode for no reason,

Far to many people buy electric planes and think its like using an electric drill, charge up the pack, plug him in, and go,
WRONG
As i said ealier, there is just as much learning to do with an Elecric plane than with a IC powered plane. If you take the time to get it right, you will have a winner, just like if you get a brand new 120 4 sroke motor, put any prop on it, and load it up with unleaded petrol, and expect it to work.

This is my opinion any way, I will never buy a gas engine again, and OS are already stoping to make a few of their engines as there ids no demand anymore.

The Future is ELECTRIC,

Phil

The helicopter that I saw didn’t actually “dead stick”. It was in fast forward flight with about thirty feet of altitude. When the electric motor suddenly stopped, it continued forward for about one foot and then silently fell straight down to the runway. It bounced a little when it hit but not much. It seemed odd that everything tested OK after the motor failure and crash.

Just an electric power safety note here.

The other day I inadvertently flipped off my TX prior to disconecting the motor battery (I do know better than to do this, BTW) on my little Flubber and the motor came to life. Fortunately, I half realized what I had done wrong as it was happening and flicked the TX back on quickly. Never, Never turn off your TX without disconecting the the motor battery first. If this had been large pattern ship I could have really had my hands full. It was bad enough as it was.

Wiz

Here's another weight saver for the guys that are building electrics. I have a new landing gear mold completed and will start casting gear before the end of the year. I have two firm orders so far and would like another couple. Features are as follows:

The landing gear comes complete; struts, pants, axles and 2 3/4" lite wheels are included
Carbon and special composite struts; fiberglass/carbon composite pants; the simplest, lighest and most ingenious axles in the business
Pants, struts and axles are all perfectly pre-aligned
Post cured struts--no summer sag
A new, easy to align design; footers are practically self aligning on your fuse.
Height from mounting base to wheel bottom is 11 1/4"; enough clearance for 24" props.
Wide track; approximately 20", depending on your fuse width
Gear sets are painted with PPG polyurethane primer; ready for final paint.
And lastly, the weight of this gear, complete, both sides, is projected to be less than 6 ozs.

If interested, contact me directly please, at [email protected]

Matt Kebabjian

I'll give a big thumbs up to Matt's gear, they are the best thing out there right now.

-Mike

For some reason, there's a landing gera link on my post above that sends you to a place that isn't mine. Please disreagrd this. To view the gear design, please visit www.RCaerobats.net.

Matt Kebabjian