During the eighties and nineties the "Schnuppi-Racing-class"
war very popular in Germany. The most succesfull and most built model was the Race-cat, designed by Werner Dettweiler. Schnuppis
were small and fast planes, driven by cheap Mabuchi motors on 7 cells. Fly low, turn left and have much fun! The Powerdwarf was my design for Speed400-Schnuppi racing.
Published in FMT 7/95 including full-size pullout plan. Span 80 centimetre, weight 490 Gramms. Have to built one with actual
technology. I bet, it will be under 300 gramms and much faster than the original ones. Excellent construction by Rudolf Freudenthaler, but poor kit
by Aeronaut. Mine broke in the air during a slow roll. Aeronaut told me, it's my fault. The group, that i fly with, took note.
No Aeronaut models since.. Nice design from SMG. Not as excellent flight characteristics
as the Sunfly, but you can trust on this plane. Good in the thermals and for slopesoaring in stronger winds. Cobra is a EPP 3D-plane and the successor of my
Baby. Motor was one of my Conrads
using 8 cells each 500 mAH. I took my first ever onboard video with her. Later Cobra was replaced with the Light-X-free,
which has better aerobatics- characteristics. The Tiger-Moth is for me one of the prettiest planes of all times.
The modell is completely built by myself. From time to time i use her for aerial videography using this
camera-position. Constructed by Yoshi Sekiai completely from 3-and 5- millimetre
EPP flat boards. Unbreakable and a good performer. Southern-SX2 is the only plane, that i was able to torque roll for a longer
period of time. A small phantasy- Jet, published in the magazine Modell in 2005.
Driven by a small CDRom brushless homebuilt motor on 3 lipo-cells the Jet will climb vertical up to 70 or 80 metres. Light-X-Free is a modell from
Effektmodell. Excellent kit, high precision parts from EPP. With
a Conrad on 3 LiIon cells Light-X-Free is my favourite modell for aerobatics.
A mysterious box draw my attention at Lampertheim indoor meeting
2007. It was full with cnc-hotwire cutted EPP parts for a little plank. I bought a set (four parts) from the maker Claude
Ruppert. Precision cut and a good amount of fine engineering leaded to a fast build. This little plank has a huge fun factor,
check the videos.That's just 4,5 amps max current draw in the videos! Wildensee-1 is my first water-plane, based on Jimsp's
SSFB. SSFB is basically a
GWS-SlowStick-modification. Motor is one of my homebuilt Conrads at a
3S-1200 lipo battery. Main-float and side-floats are hotwired from foam. Big fun for a small investment.
Video: Cobra, first onboardvideo/ youtubed
Video: Onboard Tiger-Moth/ 3,5 MB
Video: Unbreakable!/ 1,4 MB
Video: Jet/ 6,3 MB
Video: Fun with the EPP-plank/6,6 MB
