Circle Dancer 2000 RES Glider/Electric ARTF 2m

Strictly limited to one model per customer.

The Circle Dancer 2000 RES is a great Almost Ready To Fly 2m F3-RES type model with an excellent pedigree. The model is supplied fully built and superbly covered, but does not include any RC. It is available with either an electric or a glider fuselage - see the Fuselage option below the Colour option.

Like the Circle Dancer 3000 and 3600 models it is expertly constructed, and beautifully covered in Oracover Light. By the time you have added in the covering and glue costs it is not much more expensive than one of the build-it-yourself-in-a-few-months kits.

The fuselage consists of a wooden pod with a large access hatch ready-fitted with securing magnets. At the font of the glider version the beautifully carved nose block has been hollowed to take lead shot nose weight. The front of the electric version's pod has a ply 33 mm diameter firewall with holes ready drilled on 14 mm and 19 mm diameters. Inside the pod a plywood tray has been installed for screwing the rudder and elevator servos too. The servos can be up to 24 mm long by 12 mm wide. The pod includes nuts to take the wing mounting screw and fittings to take the supplied adjustable tow hook. The carbon tailboom cleverly slides into the read of the pod and locates into a rear bulkhead, and a beautifully implemented carbon fairing streamlines it to the rear of the pod. A pylon for mounting the tailplane is molded into the rear of the tailboom, together with flats for the fin to be glued to. The tailboom also has been fitted with low friction plastic pushrod outer tubes and wire pushrods.

The all balsa fin includes a large rudder for good directional control. The tailplane is similarly constructed and both are attractively shaped, giving the model a charming look.

The wing centre panel incorporates a substantial spruce spar and top surface forward sheeting to minimise drag. The centre panel incorporates a large spoiler for accurate landing and safely exiting strong thermals. The spoiler servo can be up to 10 mm thick. The ends of the centre panel have magnets built in to keep the tip panels in place. The tip panels are more lightly built and use front riblets to help maintain the correct forward airfloil shape. The tip panels are attached to the centre panel with a beautifully molded carbon dihedral brace.

The accessory pack includes the adjustable tow hook, control surface horns and other small fittings. The spoiler is designed to be actuated by a long spoiler servo output arm. The tail surfaces are intended to be connected directly to the wire pushrods with L bends. No clevises are supplied or needed in our opinion, but a keeper will be required to ensure the L bends don't become detached.

The only work required to finish the model is gluing the boom into the pod, the fin onto the end of the tailboom, the rudder and elevator horns and installing the RC. This should only take a couple of evenings.

The quality of the workmanship used for building and covering the model cannot be overstated. It really is a tour-de-force of balsa construction. In particular how the nose block is covered with no seems showing is beyond me. The covering job is beyond amazing.

CD2000 RES Specifications
Wing span	2.0 m	78 in
Wing area	35.1 dm2	545 sq in
Length	124 cm	48.8 in
Flying weight from	475 g	16.8 oz
Wing loading	13.5 g/dm	4.4 oz/sq ft
Aspect ratio	11.3
Wing airfoil	AG35/36/37
Dihedral (EDA)	11.3º
Spinner dia (el version)	33 mm (32mm spinner okay)
Centre of gravity	78-82 mm from wing leading edge
Controls	Rudder, elevator, spoiler

CD2000 RES Typical Weights
Pod	65 g	2.3 oz
Boom and pushrods	35 g	1.2 oz
Centre panel	106 g	3.7 oz
Wing tips	112 g	4.0 oz
Tailplane	13 g	0.5 oz
Fin+Rudder	11 g	0.4 oz
Accessories	20 g	0.7 oz
Total structure	362 g	12.8 oz
Receiver	6 g	0.2 oz
Rudder & elevator servos	10 g	0.4 oz
Spoiler servo	5 g	0.2 oz
Battery	60 g	2.1 oz
Noseweight	32 g	1.1 oz
Flying weight	475 g	16.8 oz

Circle Dancer 2000 Recommended RC
Rudder & elevator servos	Ripmax SD100, Blue Bird BMS-101DMG, Blue Bird BMS-101HV, Blue Bird BMS-126WV, KST X08, Graupner DES 261, EMAX ES08A
Spoiler servo	Blue Bird BMS-101DMG, Blue Bird BMS-126WV, KST X08
Receiver	4 or more channel receiver to match your transmitter

CD2000 Control Throws
Rudder	60 mm each way
Elevator	10 mm up / 5 mm down
Spoiler	40 mm up (75°)
Tow hook	9 mm forward of CG

Electric Version Powertrain Recommendations
Hacker A10-7L geared 4:1	3S 450mAh LiPo, 12x10 folding prop
Hacker A10-7L geared 4:1	3S 450mAh LiPo, 13x8 folding prop
ADH300L / MM1914-1100 Front Mount	3S 450mAh LiPo, 8x4 folding prop
ADH300L / MM1914-1100 Front Mount	2S 600mAh LiPo, 9x6 folding prop
Hacker B20-18L geared 4:1	2S 600mAh LiPo, 12x7 folding prop
Hacker B20-18L geared 4:1	3S 450mAh LiPo, 10x5 folding prop
Axi 2208/26 V2 Long	2S 600mAh LiPo, 8x4 folding prop
Axi 2208/34 V2 Long	3S 500mAh LiPo, 9x6 folding prop
Hacker A20-20L	3S 500mAh LiPo, 10x6 folding prop
Mega 16/15/4 direct drive	2S 700mAh LiPo, 9x5 folding prop
Mega 16/15/5 direct drive	3S 500mAh LiPo, 7x4.5 folding prop