Parramatta Radio Control Aircraft Club

You know they say "if you cant beat em join em", so with that in mind I looked back at the last 12 months and the non existant flying caused by wet weather.
So I though STUFF IT! and bought this.
Was hoping to get the maiden in this morning and drove in to work where I am planning flying the big sucker, you see, I have the largest expanse of Parramatta river 20 meters from my workshop., but it was windy and was chopping up the water to much for a maiden, so will try during the week.
I am very impressed with the quality of the construction. It has that super smooth almost waxy look on the foam. Buy the way, it is a HK (Large Amphibious aircraft) correct name is the Icon A5 and has a 1800mm wing span. It comes with a 6S 400kv motor and has massive wings so Im pretty excited about getting the big fat cute sucker aloft.
It comes amphibious with retracts but I ripped em out and bined em, so now mine is a seaplane.
I will be flying on 3000 6S 20C batts. Running a 12x6 prop through a Turnigy plush 80 amp speedie.
I purchased an extra 2 servos and installed the optional flaps, It certainly wont need them for landing but I think they will help break the water drag during take off.
Wont know till I fly it but I recon it would make a great FPV platform.
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Just when I thought I had you figured for your flying style & future direction for purchases, you go and throw in a curve ball. Certainly looks an impressive plane Gaz and should serve you will in your lunch break and raise a few eyebrows from within passing water craft. Could even be useful at McCoy if we Willy wreaks his fury again. Or maybe now that you have this beauty, he may deliver fine weather to force other venues.

The only things that leave a bit to be desired are the legs sticking out from below the airframe!

No mate, the vindictive pricks (the weather gods), will probably make if blow a friggin gale for the next 6 months so my liquid runway is as choppy as the north sea...... arseholes!!!!

Nice Gaz. Look forward to hearing how she flies - I had been contemplating this or the Parkzone A5 Icon every time I went past to check on McCoy after a belt of rain.

BTW, if you like that sort of thing, there's some great video of the full size craft on the manufacturer's site: http://www.iconaircraft.com/videos.html

Yeh thanks Claudio, seen most of the vids.
HK make 2 of these, the small one is about 1100mm wing, mine is the big one at 1800mm
The one Parkzone does is in the middle at about 1400mm.

You can also fly it for free in the new MS Flight game (Not a sim anymore )
http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/

Awesome !!

I think it would make a great FPV platform !!

I'm interested to heat how it goes !!

Gaz I think Murphy is to blame, and he is in cahoots with the weather gods to enforce his law. He also has a pact with Sam (Satelite man), who sits in a Satelite & watches my car as it approaches traffic lights & turns them red at the most frustrating moment.

(24-03-2012, 09:23 PM)gbanger Wrote: [ -> ]Yeh thanks Claudio, seen most of the vids.
HK make 2 of these, the small one is about 1100mm wing, mine is the big one at 1800mm
The one Parkzone does is in the middle at about 1400mm.

I have the guanli A5 icon. I call it the flying Brick. I think some of you seen me fly it. Horrible to fly. But this one Gaz looks much more like the real plane and has better wings. I want to see it fly.