Here's a few pics of my F-22 Raptor for you R/C fans

[Joe 1320]

I already crashed it pretty hard and did the repair. It still needs touch up and the final designation lettering. The power system is twin ducted 75mm fans, twin 380 brushless motors, twin 30amp elecronic speed controllers, and a 4500 mah lithium polimer battery. It's enough thrust to hover vertical as long as a finger is kept on the nose to keep it balanced.

[Joe K. 99 Zeee!!]

That's awesome. You have vectored thrust on that thing?!


I had a chance to see the real thing at Andrews AFB the other week. Amazing! It went straight up. All but came to a stop in that position. Then the nose proceeded to come down and without losing any apparent altitude it scoots off straight and level!! The flight path was quite literally an inverted "L"

I've been to a number of airshows. My father was a pilot. I have a couple hundred hours. I've never in my life seen a plane do that! If I hadn't seen it, I couldn't have imagined it.

[Jeff_in_Atl]

Pretty cool. I tried an electric sail plane once and the thrust just wasn't enough to fly it. Electric motors and batteries have come a long way in the last 10 years.

[Joe 1320]

Pretty cool. I tried an electric sail plane once and the thrust just wasn't enough to fly it. Electric motors and batteries have come a long way in the last 10 years.

You aren't kidding. these fans scream along at roughly 34K rpm. The battery will supply a 60 amp continuous discharge ( for at least 10 seconds) and weighs roughly 10 oz. Of couse with the technology comes a higher cost. Brushless motors, speed controllers and lipo batteries are waaaaayyyy more expensive than the run of the mill stuff. Now they have electric sailplanes that will power loop right out of the box.

[Joe 1320]

That's awesome. You have vectored thrust on that thing?!


I had a chance to see the real thing at Andrews AFB the other week. Amazing! It went straight up. All but came to a stop in that position. Then the nose proceeded to come down and without losing any apparent altitude it scoots off straight and level!! The flight path was quite literally an inverted "L"

I've been to a number of airshows. My father was a pilot. I have a couple hundred hours. I've never in my life seen a plane do that! If I hadn't seen it, I couldn't have imagined it.

What's really cool as well is that is cruises above mach 1 without the afterburner.

[Y2KHAWK]

That is cool! RC has come a long way in 20 years.

[Kevin - Blown 95 TA]

Joe, it's hard to tell how big it is, and what is it made out of?

[DJ Taso]

Joe, what's the wingspan on that?

Here's some of my 89" wingspan P-51 I've been working on since last Summer.







About 80% complete I'd say so far...

[Jeanius]

lets get some video footage!

[Joe 1320]

Joe, what's the wingspan on that?

Here's some of my 89" wingspan P-51 I've been working on since last Summer.



About 80% complete I'd say so far...

Geez...... that's huge. DJ, that's going to be an impressive sight. I would love to see that fly. Where the heck are you going to fly that? That kind of wingspan will need lots of room.


My wingspan is only about 46" The airframe is made of EPP molded foam parts that are glued together. Interesting as it can be moled into virtually any shape, flexes upon impact (to a point), and fairly lightweight. To give you an idea of the scale, the black canopy section and the immediate mounting area around it is about the size of a 12 oz. soda can.