Spirit Electric Glider Flight

I put my small video capture gizmo on the wing of the Spirit and captured a flight from Trentham. The flight was 26 minutes long. It was a bit bumpy. The Spirit doesn't penetrate very well (maybe I need to weight it). Here is a screen shot of from the flight. Not very sharp but I suspect its a plastic lens. Editted highlights? of the flight is here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAcC_GKr0Ow

Spirit Electric Glider Flys

Well the forecast for today was improving weather and once the mist cleared from Upper Hutt, it was great. Test flew the electric spirit and she flew very well. Had an approx 45 minute flight, the air was quite bouyant. Got a good thermal over the golf club and got to about 700 ft. Great fun.

Spirit Electric Glider

I had a Spirit glider sitting in the garage and decided to make it electric (actually I have 2 spirit gliders in the garage, one I built 15 years ago and the other I bought cheap). The bought one was not as well build as mine (ha ha)- well the tailplane is a bit warped and I did consider replacing it but I haven't, so that is the one I decided to convert. I bought a Turnigy brushless equivalent to a 0.12 ic motor which should be big enough (maybe too big!!). Its all ready to go now. Its winter so the flying weather can be a bit few and far between. I have run up the engine (why is it that when you first connect it up it goes the wrong way ;o), programmed the ESC so we are all ready to go. Using a fixed 9x5 prop for the first few flights to see how she goes.