Welcome to the South Leicester Aeronutz website.

Welcome! to the South Leicester Aeronutz web site. We have lots of useful information to help you design and build your own miniature scale aircraft for indoor flying.

Matt's new three channels micro plane. 1/72nd scale Eindecker, around 5 inch span, 2.5g total weight. 4x8 pager 30 ohms, 4:1 gear, 1.6" prop, 10mah Koichi lithium polymer cell muscle wire dual actuator, full flying elevator and rudder. Construction is milled down depron, no skins, thickness from .016" to .020". Coloring is all Tamiya acrylic with airbrush. Aluminum tubes for landing gear and tail skid frames, made from 1mil aluminum, rolled and seemed. Full dummy 9 cylinder engine that rotates with prop. Would take pages to describe everything. Gun and most of rigging, and small details still need to be done.

Big Cat spotted in South Leicester
11.5" span, 7 grams, twin motor steering

all 2mm wall foam, proportional Z Tron Ir control

Direct drive slow reving pager motors to reduce

the noise, crew of three

Strange scenes
at the Fun fly

during the Indoor

Nats 2006

It's not very obvious what you are looking at here. Amazingly small canard ornithopter, flew very nicely for 14 seconds. Needless to say big John Mack is it's creator - seen here with magnifying glass checking the link mechanism that makes the rear wings flap.

Richard Crossley's
Dauntless powerded by

geared pager and timer

by the "Atomic Workshop"

Peter Smart's Wright flier (I assume)

rubber powered twin used "boing" scale

launcher

It's not often you see little Cessnas -
rubber powered, stick and tissue,

I didn't see 'em fly but Peter made them

so we can assume they flew perfectly .......

Electric twin stick and tissue with Voodoo timer by Peter again
Shock ! did not fly perfectly - maybe some hope for us mortals

after all ?

New three blade bendy prop.
Photo shows a rough blank of a prop

that will be used for a new 10" span B17

Dia is about 20mm

Super little foamie Zero by Yamaneko
1/72 scale, Span 167mm AUW: Zero 3.03 g

Prop: Dia 22., coil actuator, 2ch IR,

30ma Hr Li Poly cell, geared 4mm pager,

plastic prop.

See more pictures here

See nice video of flight here

A380 and 747 and indoor
models here

Well worth warming

you phone

lines for.

Excellent developemnt work from France. Check out the A380 and SAAB 340 airliners. Airliners look great when they fly slow so a low wing loading is essential. New li Poly cells, control eqiupment and brushless motors should make slow flyign airliners much easier these days. Lateral stability can be a problem but not so for the A380 which looks very stable in the video clip.

Nick's new 2mm wall foam
development plane for NEAT 05

it is 3 Ch, but Sergio is working

on a 4 Ch. PIC,

for the four Channel Receiver.

Wing Span 9" weight about 8gm

Joe is trying one of the new brushless outrunner motors. Here is his new 11 inch span micro 3D Tensor biplane. It is all balsa airbrushed with acrylic paints. It weighs 42 grams with 2 off 145 Li-poly cells and the new Mighty Midget Double Whopper motor, available from Bob Selman. The motor puts out an amazing 60 grams of thrust! To be able to fly an nice aerobatic routine you need momentum and power so it will be interesting to see how Joe gets on with this development model. Mark's Fokker Triplane was very slow and light but could never do aerobatics. Maybe one day soon we will see a Spitfire do a proper smooth victory roll or a Pitts do a full, round loop?

Nick sends us details of his latest rubber power R/C plane, it uses a coil actuator and on the rudder weighs just 0.48g. Also New Micro 100mg (1/10th gram). 3Ch. receiver. Rubber power RC is great fun and SILENT. ...http://hometown.aol.com/microflier/RadioPage1.html

Joe has been testing the new Plantraco micro system.
He built a huge 1/48 scale version of his F6F Hellcat from

2mm wall foam (photo copy the patterns) .

The model uses the .9 gram receiver, 90 cell and a 6mm drive. It weighs 15 grams complete and fly's for 8 minutes on a charge.

Joe used Bob Selman's 400mg actuator for aileron control. Joe says the new Plantraco system has excellent range and performance, well done to them.

Obviously Joe liks to make
scale planes so it was natural

that he should make a

half scale Butterfly .......

The 3.5 inch span model uses Nick Leichty's 200mg receiver and actuator. It is powered with a Didel 4mm motor geared 4.4-1. I covered the model with 3um MicroLite covering. I weighs 2 grams with the 30 Li-poly cell.

Good to see some interesting
developments from

Japan's aeronutz.

More details of thier 1930's style air racers are on thier web site

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/toko0131/e/44aac9602b7bf9a9b8b9088091894ab6

Plantraco have a super new control system using much higher frequencies than the

usual R/C 35Mhz. Quiet expensive but very light http://www.plantraco.com/hobbies/index.html

New P51 model from Joe. It is 2mm wall foam covered with tissue paper, inkjet printing. The model uses the Gasparin GB32P6G 4.5 ohm 6 mm motor and Nick's R/C system. It spans just over 8 inches and weighs 9.7 grams with one 90 Li-poly cell. "I am also trying one of Nick's actuators for aileron control. I am just waiting for a calm day to test fly the model" Joe

Aeronutz Go Nats.

If you can carve aircrew ..... the more the better ! Richard had a new electric "Flight of the Pheonix". note the guy in the red has the monkey in the bag

Can't see it? too small, here is a closer look

Richard also had this nice electric F/F twin, using one of his timers. Would make a nice little R/C garden flier, stick and tissue

Mark met up with the Aeronutz President, Joe for Sunday lunch. Started with J and T (fresh lemon (heathy living)) before moving onto a fruity little red (fresh glasses of course)

Matt will recognise this one .....

New - Nick in Florida has a new web site with details of his planes and super light R/C hand made control systems Check it out at http://hometown.aol.com/microflier/RadioPage1.html Above: Nicks very small three channels R/C Tripacer (I wounder what sort of tyres he is using, Goodyear maybe?)
New! Gareth's electric F/F models using lithium cells and capacitor/resistor motor timers Foam construction, Falcon geared motors
Indoor Aussies with coats ...... must be a differnt Australia? http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/tribute_clubs_1.html New! 3 CH 1/72 scale 172 Cessna by Joe in the US. This is the first test FF model. It will use the Didel 4mm motor geared 4-1. It will weigh only 3 grams when completed. 2mm wall foam construction. Graham took a video of Mark's C54 at Nottingham, it is over on the RCGroups web site.
http://rcgroups.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=10974

The emergency landing was caused by an oil leak in number four ...

Its been another busy month of developements in nutty land.

These culminated in the successfull flight of Mark's new C54. The Beaufighter is now flying stable and controlled but not climbing, maybe the props are too fine pitch? The B17 is on holiday in Florida with Nick.

The thanks to the efforts of Joe and Matt we have a new generation of micro planes. Check out the video clips here. Matt's SE5 seen below, http://www.aeronutz.flyer.co.uk/MattSe5.wmv.mov

Joe's Hellcat, http://www.aeronutz.flyer.co.uk/JoeHellcat.mov

Matt and Mark pondered the future of micro planes and thought it would be nice to bo back up in weight so we can use the 60mA hr cell instead of the tiny 20mA hr. Mark is now playing with pager motors and vac formed props to make a new micro Catalina PBY at about 10" span. Nick has once again teamed up with Mark to produce a new Rumpler VIB with Nick's 27 Mhz proportional control system, about 6" span.

Obviously the new micro planes can be flown in a small hall so it is not necessary to hire a big place like Parklands. The local church hall is the only smaller hall available, so put your Jigglet templates on a photo copier and shrink them to 8" span or so. Mark is working on a vac formed prop blank for rubber power planes. All this stuff will take a little time (as Mark vaccum clean has just blown up and needs fixing) to sort out. But looking back over the last ten years, its just another development.
Excellent New Corsair from Joe in the US. Wall foam with sprayed on acrylic. Based on a plastic kit, he uses the kit's decals and cockpit He said he has it flying Ok, Mark briefly saw it at NEAT just as it started to rain on Friday pm - never to be seen again by the Sergio / Downsville possee Both the Hellcat and Corsair use Co2 motors and Nick's 27 Mhz three channels control system. Nick's super small coil actuators on rudder and eleveator New C54 had it's maiden flight at NEAT 2004 (Downsville location!!) All wall foam, four direct drive pager with bendy Vac formed props. Z Tron twin motor steering infra red, one 60mA Hr polymer cell. 5.75g flying weight. Seems to require more power than was predicated. Stable, although sensitive to elevator adjustment. The motors will be given more down thrust to keep the nose down, the motors use lots of power so minimum throttle is required, bit of a joke really !! Matt's super NEW SE5a, all balsa, Flexinol actuators on rudder and elevator. Uses his own DYI R/C system Dia 4mm pager. Around 2.4 grams flying weight, 1.72nd scale. Flies for about two minutes at the moment, re-designing the gears to get longer duration.CNC cut mini prop.
Peter Smart's super free flight "Gigant" Uses six of the PU pager motors by Falcon and a polymer cell. Won the f/f electric class at the indoor Nats. Nice Peter Frostick Picy
Aeronutz celibrate ten years of foaming fun. Simon drew out his Jigglet design in 1994. Aviation Modeller International published it with an article on indoor flying in March 1996. Aeronutz Fun Flying events have been held at Parklands Leisure Centre Oadby for eight years

New polymer cells weigh 0.7g
see news letter

New ! Dave's pink foam, Z Tron infra red twin motor steering
bomber. Dia 6mm 4.5 Ohm direct drive motors. Flying weight 17g

Flies very well, looks good too.

Good to see Chris and his super scale
stick and tissue F/F jobs,

left is his new super scale Peanut Buster

which flew perfectly all night

Ray's new 9.5" twin motor steering
foamie was superbe! Note the move

back yogurt pot props. More details

later

New !
Timer for F/F

lithium planes.

See new news

letter

	Jag. Graham's wall foam Gemini

Classic Aeronutz - Ray aerotowing, but now with his Z Tron IR controlled, 12" span bipe. It didn't release the glider though, a Flexinol actuator would be ideal for that, or a timer, or a voltage switch or hitting the roof.

New ! Matt, Mark and Nick are looking into designs for a prototype Reno or Schieder Racer.

These new toys are inspired by Nick's little sports plane seen above on the right. This little 6.5" span plane uses ailerons and elevator! Zips along too. The Pitts is also R/C three channels.

Big John Mack has been busy again. "Exploring techniques for lighter dragonfly wings, here's a model using cat's whiskers for spars. It clocked 29.25 seconds on Saturday. It makes the dragonflies look gross, and I can now see why they never flew." Hands up everyone who has a rubber power plane that flies for 30 seconds? You wanna try that with a micro flapper!!! Incredible. Super photo too

Matt has a new park flier design. It's designed to be abel to handle a little wind so it is powerfull with a higher wing loading, Matt writes ... "My little P-38 flies pretty well. I've flown it twice outdoors and it's really fun. The high wing loading, direct drive, and low drag make it do really zoomy flights. The plane is a scratch built profile 10.5" span P-38 Lightning all solid wood using balsa, ply and bass. Motors are the M-20 high 5.8 Ohm type supplied by Aeronutz Mark. 2 x Kokam 145s in series for energy (6 to 8.4 volts). Props are custom. R/C is custom UHF driving 2 x 3mm stepper motors controlling the twin rudders and elevator, also throttle control. All up weight is around 35 grams, covering is Monokote. Only bit left is spinners. I wind tunnel tested it at Aerovironment to check the speed range and throttle settings since flying these heavy little planes the first time can be tricky(!!). Shown with my favorite pencil. Scrole right for in fligth picture >>>>

Mark has made one of Simon's SB13's.
17" span, all 2mm wall foam. This one has slim section airfoil and razor sharp LE to make it penetrate. It does not have any nose weight at the moment either - so its as light as it will ever be!
Glides very well, gently bending up the trailing edge of the inner part of the wing acts as up elevator - just sits on the stall, nice and slow.
This is the first Aeronutz to be made using the new Foam 2 Foam glue, worked well, look forwards to using on the next plane.

Mike's little stick and tissue was flying mush better, a new prop me thinks? I saw a couple of when it got up just under the steelwork. Not an easy plane too see up there!

John with new Japanese designed ornithopter, uses bird feather quills for spars, as good a material as you will find for the job.
Infra red safety note. Janne has found an article which investigates the effect of IR on the eye. Please email us for a complete copy if you are worried. Basically it says IR light does not cause the eye to contract and reduce the amount of light entering the eye like sun light does. The general summary is that you should not look directly at the transmitter's emitters. The report's tests are based on looking directly at the emitters. It is a good ideal to have a flashing LED to show the Tx is on and you might like to have a bright light next to the emitters which would cause the eye to contract if you looked at the emitters. However the light entering our eyes is mainly reflected off the opposite walls, we don't use the Tx for long periods of time.
Three free flight fun fliers .......

Tom's F/F 2mm wall foam rubber Bear Cat
Andrew's/Barry's Owl F/F Depron rubber
Tom's F/F Depron Co2 Hawk Speed 6
Zap !
Try this little wing round the house, made from Ray's special thin
foam Zipper!

Simon's twin steer wing

This site is mainly aimed at people new to this kind of aeromodelling and those who want to design and build their own machines. We have some plans available to help you get started, and you can look at the pages on indoor planes and park flyers to find something similar to what you want to build. This will give you an idea of weight, motors, rubber sizes, control systems etc based on something that works and should save you some development headaches.

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