Join the jet set with this sleek, plug-and-play flier.
Having recently developed an interest in electric ducted-fan jets, I started casting about for an easy, relatively inexpensive sport plane to get started. I wanted a plane that would be easy to fly yet still be fast and fairly aerobatic. I asked several friends what would be a good introductory jet and a couple of them pointed me to the Motion RC website (motionrc.com), where a preorder had just been opened for the Freewing Avanti S.
Freewing’s Avanti S is an officially licensed version of SebArt’s turbine-powered Avanti S designed by Sebastiano Silvestri, a model that’s fairly well known in RC aerobatic competition.Constructed out of molded EPO foam, powered by an 80mm EDF on a 6S LiPo battery, with electric retracts and a full set of running lights and beacons, Freewing’s version is an attractive airframe.
I found a few demonstration-flight videos online and thought the model looked just about perfect for my wants, so I signed up for the preorder. A plug-and-play model, there’s not a lot needed to get it flying, just a radio system and battery. I have plenty of suitable 6S batteries, and a quick search through the radio parts box yielded a Spektrum AR9350 receiver that I knew would work well, so I was set to go.
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This story is from the October 2017 edition of Model Airplane News.
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