Reviewed by: John Fisher
Very pleased with the Blaster.
Flies amazingly well. I am very impressed.
All up weight is 478 gm.
Hacker A20 22L motor with X30 Controller and 9 x 5 Aeronaut folder
HYPERION G3 CX-25C 0850-3CELL LIPO.
Just need to buy 2.4 Radio to save some weight?
Reviewed by: Jordi
First email:
I've been watching carefully my new "toy", and the word that comes to my mind is outstanding. I've been modelling for 35 years and I never found such high quality in a model. I also have a Stuart Blanchard's Calypso Sport and F3B New Age, they fly very well indeed, but they haven't the same manufacture quality.
I heard about Vladimir's building quality, but the only one model I saw some years ago was a Graphite. It looked very nice, but the Blaster overpassed it.
I'll be building it up next week (if work allows me to do so). I'll give you my comments soon.
Second email:
The Blaster got airborne today. It's a delightful to fly. It's very agile, tight thermal turns are possible without loosing any height.
I found the CG too forward without posibility to move any item backwards, I'm using 2S 800 mA Lipo (45g). This give me about 1 hour flight. I'm thinking about replacing the battery, 30g, perhaps, but I'm not sure. From your point of view, can you suggest any Lipo combination to achieve the right Blaster CG?
Pass my congratulations to Vladimir for this great design. Kind regards,
Jordi
(I suggest using light weight powertrains and 400-500mah 2S lipos, even if using lightweight tail servos - Neil.)
Reviewed by: JohnH
I just thought I would let you know how much I am impressed with the Blaster Electric, this week is the first opportunity I have had enough time to do it justice.
I am more than impressed with its performance, it exceeds all of my expectations, I have just come back from a session with just two powered launches with both flights having to spiral out of exessive lift with flight times of 45 and 38 minutes, the plane was as high as I could see effectively.
Last week I had the Blaster (non electric) out and recorded a flight time of 36 minutes again having to spiral out of lift. Lovely machines both.
I was also flying the Supra E on Sunday and got to a height of 290 Metres logged by the Alti Pro from Martin Bell from a launch height of 200 metres.
I am so impressed with the developments in the sport in the last couple of years, my flying buddies at my flying club thought I was mad about 5/6 years ago when I decided to ditch all of my I/C in favour of electric power, guess what most of them are flying now!
Again many thanks for introducing me to Vladimir's models
All the best
John
