Can 150 plus years of free flight endurance mind set ever be broken? This site focuses on an alternative, aerobatics, that offers something you can fly close to home.
Scroll down to see some aerobatic free flying. See what small space free flight can be.
The store has 7 kits, up from 2 originally available
Free flight for urban & suburban small spaces
Free Flight Aerobatic Developments
It has been easy for me to shift my attention from traditional endurance oriented free flight to aerobatic free flight. It was easy for me to see that this mode of flying opened the small spaces found in the suburbs and cities to free flight flying. The kids that have seen aerobatic free flight love it. I suspect that the model airplane community has unwittingly fallen victim to the assumption that free flight aerobatics are not possible. They are possible, and this site exists to expound on the idea.
At right is the Mohawk T-tail design getting in a flight. In this case it does chandelles, but it does loops too. It’s free flight folks, sometimes, every time, the atmosphere has some influence on what happens.
A free flight aerobatic Mohawk performs.
A little more flying and some commentary
The Aristokrat borrows it’s looks from a control line model of the same name from the European MDI kit manufacturer (I think), probably defunct for some time now. In free flight, it turns out to be a nice flying airplane. What you see here is the first flight it logged. The somewhat rough landings you see here are not a worry as all our designs are able to survive them.
The Aristokrat on it’s first flight.
The Professor is derived from a control line stunt (aerobatic) design that goes back 30 or 40 years, I believe. I had to deviate from the original’s layout to get this one to perform, but at last here it is. The vertical front canopy does not appear on any of the examples I have seen, but the thumbnail I worked from had it, so why not!
The Professor shows his free flight aerobatic prowess.
Sometimes the weather plays a little havoc. A cold front had been moving into the area for a couple of days and it seemed that things had settled enough to do some flying. Well, the first few flights went fine, but the last two highlighted my misjudgement. The red Z-51 was a superb flyer, it’s anhedral wing layout elevating above it’s dihedral wing hanger mate. It taught me that the cold front was still moving fast a few feet above the ground. Never found the model.
The Imitation, another control line derivative, had a rough time, but it gave me the only incidence of sustained inverted free flight flying I’ve ever had.
Red Z-51 rides the cold front, Imitation shows sustained inverted free flight.