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Skeeter 30 for AFP and AFPD
The Skeeter 30 is the plane that started the small electric balsa revolution. Are you tired of foam? Want something that will really fly well outside in the wind? Take the gear off your foamy and put it on this laser cut kit. Literally, we are approaching nearly 1,000 Skeeter 30's flying world wide.
The Skeeter 30 was born out of the desire for a smaller plane that I could fly in my back yard, park, or even the street in front of my house. I had been through several foamies, even designed some myself, but the Nebraska winds make foamies nothing more than a frustration a majority of the time. I needed a plane that had an airfoil and that would allow me to fight through the winds. The plane also needed to be a 3D monster and I wanted it all under 14oz ready-to-fly.
I knew foam would just not cut it so I put pen to paper ( mouse to CAD ) and developed the Skeeter 30 based around what was considered pretty standard foamy equipment at the time: Himax 2015-4100 inrunner in a 6.6:1 gearbox, ETec 3cell 1200 lipo packs and 4 GWS Naro servos. It worked out very well and was an instant hit.
The design has been updated several times, but I have settled in on the current version as the one that will probably last a while. I am back to the built-up control surfaces and the "X" fuse for added fuselage stiffness. I have also replaced the gearbox "motor-on-a-stick" mount for an outrunner mount.
