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Ridgehogs 60″ Powered EPP Stunt Plane

gordon — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:39:58 +0000

This is what I will be building: The Ridge Racer 60″ powered EPP Slope Soarer. I will do a different colour scheme this time, that will be the only difference – ohh and maybe a smile in the next photo of me!

We have had MANY, MANY emails from our pilots on this forum WHEN -WHEN, WHEN!!!! Are we going to produce these!!!!!!

The answer is easy, when we get enough investment to run these off! We need to create at least 200k, that is $200,000 so we can start to roll these out for you. The main expense is “setting up” once this is done we can offer a cost effective, super strong, super detailed and a great performing aircraft to you!

So while Ridgehogs hits the streets for investors, we will continue to build our prototypes and load them on the site, telling you all what we have done and how we did it.

The Ridgehogs Ridge Racer Slope Soarer and Park Flyer

Ridgehogs Glider Prototype Build

admin — Tue, 17 May 2011 09:11:01 +0000

Again, some may question my glider building techniques, but it comes down to my frustration of being able to get to things fast – or even “upgrade” without starting from scratch.

With the Thermal Racer – TR035 rc sailplane I wanted to power it with something with enough kick, but keep weight and cost down.

Also I wanted something different, like the Yanks do with their mussle cars – you know, they get a big block engine pre assembled and simply plonk it in

So first thing is to cut out a monster hole in the nose and an area for my battery casing.

I mounted the outrunner (I use outrunners as they stay much cooler as the whole thing spins) to a rubber/foam case which is then slotted into the area I cut out. The area for this case/battery bit is a little smaller for a very tight fit. This means beleive it or not I don’t have to glue anything

The whole rig – even with a four cell battery can sustain vertical flight without moving. The reason for this is give – something has to give when you land hard, and I used to break shafts, mounts and even damage my lipos. So I came up with this – the lipo is in a protective bed, even with a hard hit on the nose it does not damage anything. It acts like a bumper of a car.

The actual spinner is made up of several different components as I could not find a folding prop with a large spinner. For some reason even the big sailplanes have small spinners

I wanted a smooth scale look – not a pimple on the end of a nose sort of look.

I used a DuBro spinner and cut out parts for the folding prop, used shafts from another, blades from another and modified another central piece.

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admin — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:35:37 +0000

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Ridgehogs Ridge Racer, EPP Powered Slope Soarer

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:56:41 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaYVi3VygLk

We are currently developing prototypes and test flying. Please review our test flight videos. Feel free to comment and provide feedback.

Ridghogs, Thermal Racer 035TR

admin — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:48:09 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz4o8VjYgtk

We are currently developing EPP slope soarers, sail planes, powered flight prototypes and test flying. Please review our test flight videos. Feel free to comment and provide feedback.