Here's the last of this batch. Hoooray I hear you shout.
Never mind, nobody forced you to look at 'em.
Did someone mention electric flight? Back in the deepest darkest days of the period now known as the '80s your old friend Hagar & his mates were experimenting with this novel form of propulsion. This is one of those early models, basically a slope soarer with an electric motor in it. I fitted the longer soaring wings on it to compensate for the extra weight of the battery pack. It was a tad heavy. The prototype Electro Soarbeau.
I happened to remark to my old mate Pete that if you turned the fuselage upside down it resembled a WWII fighter. Before you could say Nora Batty here's what he came up with. A cartoon-scale electric powered P-51D. It performed very well, even with the standard wing.
His next project was twin-engined, a cartoon-scale Bf 110. That also flew well but I don't have any decent shots of it. It was fitted with bombs filled with flour which looked quite impressive when dropped. He then decided to go the whole hog & try 4 motors. This is what he came up with. A beautful semi-scale C-130.
Careful pre-flight on the runway at Shoreham after the airport closed. This is the first test flight. We needed plenty of room to make sure it got off the ground.
Hooray, she flies & well too. Now doesn't that look a treat.
The very first 4-motored electric powered model aircraft to fly in the UK. I've lost count of the number of competitions he won with it.
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