Thunder Tiger

Raptor 30V2 (2008)
 

Purchase at a swap meet in Mar 09 and it had only had a bit of hovering by a 'tyro'.  Test hovered and tried a few things I could do and I was very impressed even with 'woodies'.  Unfortunately, lost power whilst going inverted during stationary flips and didn't figure it out (thought I had got the pitch input wrong) until it had rotated nearly upright and despite full positive pitch was falling to the ground.  Managed to continue the rotation until level and in it went; with the ground being soft very little damage was done and the engine was still idling?.  Reason for power loss?  Near enough run out of fuel and the flipping caused the engine to be starved and thus slow down but not quite stop it; doh!!!!.  That's what comes with doing more electric flying than glow; you forget about the need for fuel.

Rebuilt very cheaply and upgraded with CF blades however this seemed to bog the motor down badly when pitching up so engine replaced with an OS37; that should do the job nicely; put into storage pending future use.

Sep 11 decided to sell so fitted replacement Super Tigre G34H and test hovered to prove functional; swapped for Hirobo Falcon 505.