hegi hydrofoil

artic-corsair · 18-03-2006

heres some pics of the now completed hydrofoil , tested last year , flys great but going to upgrade motor for this year, has blue flashing light and siren sound , will try and get some on water pics soon:

genius · 27-03-2006

I have one, too, but it's in shabby condition.
Your's is looking great!
Hope I can restore mine into likewise condition some day.

**Bluewavestudios** · 27-03-2006

Looks good Paul, Nice work and am looking forwards to the watershots.
Genius, at least you have some inspiration now to get yours restored, doesn't look too shabby from what I can see in the pic so I don't suppose it will take too long.

Regards.......Mark.

artic-corsair · 30-03-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by genius

I have one, too, but it's in shabby condition.
Your's is looking great!
Hope I can restore mine into likewise condition some day.

have you used yours , i had problems with controll at slow speed ,i.e no rudder response at all , so i retro fitted another rudder behind the prop, and used a seperate servo to control it , remebering that the outer rudders work on a different system , i have inclosed pics to explain

Diegoboy · 17-07-2007

Who still has this model?
I live in the USA, and I'm having one shipped from Germany on 7/18/07.

genius · 24-10-2007

Mine is still waiting for restoration...

But I built a little brother, as you can see the Rudder is in the middle between the props. Surprisingly it works fine:

Averof · 25-04-2008

Hi guys, your boats look great, a specialy the double prop one.
I'm try to tune up my own scratchbuilt Hydrofoil. At the begining my twelve years old son made his own RC boat on the base of a 1/72 nd Revell MTB. The kit is only 12 inch long, so it has been quite a job to make it RC. unfortunatly the boat had an accident. The boy felt very sorry about it so i tried to mend it up. First as it was ruined, I had to recreate a super structure from scratch, then I've equiped it with a much more efficent motor, for greater speed. But when turning, the boat was kapsizeing, so I had an idea, I've fitted it with Foils. New problemes appeared. For the moment I'm going threw a certain amount of inproovements. I've fitteted the boat with a small Graupner Microspeed motor wich gives great velocity for a very light weight. I've refitted a micro plane receptor and a 10 A speed controler and two Nokia phone li-on Battery. the foils are made out of heli propellers. I'll thread photos of boat flying as soon as it's finished. For the moment, here are pictures of the genuin revell Kit and my scratch before fitting it with Foils.
Best regards to all of you.
Averof