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25 years of Hacker Motor – Congratulations!!!

When I received my first F3A motor from Hacker in 2007, nobody would have thought that a few years later this small company would become THE reference brand in rc-aeromodelling. In addition to many of its own top products for electric flying, one of the leading remote control manufacturers, JETI duplex, is also exclusively in Hacker’s programme. And Rainer Hacker was the guy that I finally came across JETI at the 2016 toy fair.

I’ve been a pilot, partner and friend of Hacker Motor GmbH for over 15 years now – and I’m proud of that. During this long time, there have been many wonderful encounters and successes together with the team. I have summarized a few of them here:

SAB Tortuga V2

After having a lot of fun the past 2 years with SAB Tortuga I decided to build a new one (and call it V2) with some main modifications.

Modifications: 

– clear canopy and new canopy lock system, 
– many 3D printed parts such as: servo cover, pilot, pump-, RX-, batteryholder

– light system by innoflyer

Equipment:

Servos: 2x Hacker Ditex EL0512W, 1x Hacker Ditex EL0510M
batteries: 2x Hacker / TopFuel ECO-RX 2000
RX: JETI duplex REX-7 + JETI RC Power Switch 5
Turbine: Kolibri T15 Autostart
Light System: innoflyer LD 3.0 + innoflyer LED´s: 2x Crystal red/green, 3x Lisa

Airshow in Györ, Hungary

From 19th .-22nd. August was the annual SRCM airshow in Györ with the main event on August 21st. My Hungarian friends asked to bring back the Pilatus PC-21 and the small Tortuga. This year also with a little surprise: my brandnew 50% Bücker Jungmeister with the Fiala 5-cylinder 250ccm radial engine.

It was again an absolutely amazing event with perfect weather and a warm hospitality – check the pictures ;).

THANK YOU SRCM Györ for an awesome event!

A special THANK YOU goes to Hannes who provided an excellent accommodation for us!

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TSAR monoplane in 2021 RT DESIGN livery

During last year I worked on a completely new livery. It was time for something new for TSAR monoplane, as the KARAT-livery is already from 2017.
I am very proud now to show you the 2021 RT DESIGN livery on TSAR.

Which requirements I followed:

–          maximim visibility in the air (big difference top – bottom)

–          less different colors

–          quite a simple scheme

This scheme is the first ever we did completely with vinyl-stickers. The result is good and with 120g extra weight to the white body it’s excellent.

I hope you like it 😉

Events in August and September

As there are almost no events this year, I could manage to fly with friends in Germany and Hungary.
From 28.08. – 30.08. I attended a small airshow for RC pilots only and not for the public, in Györ.
An excellent event with perfect organization and hospitality – thank you SRCM Györ!!!!

Beginning of September I went back to Mosbach for study. Less than one hour drive from Mosbach is the airfield of Michelstadt, which is in my mind for many years. In 2001 was an airshow at that field, where I saw one of my most favorite airplanes for the first time, the GeeBee R2 by Delmar Benjamin.
On Monday and Tuesday the local RC-pilots are allowed to fly at this place and I could not miss this invitation and spent some great time with the people there.
A big thank you also to all friends in Michelstadt!!!

Here are some impressions and videos from those trips.
Thanks to all for filming!

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Acrostar mk2 XL VIDEO!

On sunday weekend we captured a few clips of electric Acrostar mk2 XL and my mate M!C made a nice video of this plane:

Acrostar mk2 XL – classic aerobatic plane – perfect towing machine

Check it out:

uncut video of Acrostar mk2 XL in the GP version with Fiala FM70 4-stroke motor:

Skymaster F4-Phantom 1:6

After carefully reworking the whole plane and some “weight cure” we finally made a few very successful phlights with the more than 3m long F4 Phantom from my phater. Everything works flawless!
Both turbines running reliable, all the telemetry data from the three RX and other information are monitored during flight on the radio and the electric retract system incl. the the gear doors moving exactly like on the original F4.

It is so much fun, if everything works so perfect and you have to see this impressive model in the air!

Equipment:
2x JetCat P130RX
Hacker DITEX Servos TD2612S
JETI CB-200 with 2x 2,4Ghz RX and 900Mhz Backup RX
electric retract system and brakes
7,5l CM Jets Tank + 2x UATs

A few pictures from this impressive model (more will follow):

KARAT biplane from now on painted available

Finally we are able and proud to offer KARAT biplane painted from the FALCON-factory. We completely reworked the scheme and the masking that we now ready for a small “series production”. The layout is my colorscheme and the colors can be choosen without extra cost. Also own schemes are possible!

The new color combination purple / green is my personal ” RT 2020 version”

Information and pricing on request!

The first two airplanes are painted in China and going to the customers soon.
The green version is coming to Germany and before I hand it over to the customer, I will upload some detail pictures.

JETI model duplex DS-12

Since almost half a year I tested the new JETI DS-12 in my airplanes.
In this report I would like to present some facts about this radio, because I really like it and it may helps someone to make a decision whether for or against the DS-12.

What I like:
– Software, menu navigation and even the battery charger!!! is same as all other JETI-radios
– Modelfiles exchangeable to all other JETI-radios (easily from DS-12 <-> DC/DS-14/16/24)
– extremely long battery runtime (In my case around 2 weeks)
– very lightweight radio
– includes the full JETI-Telemetry
– colored display which is even in bright sun good readable
– gimbals as in all JETI-radios with hall sensors
– integrated manual for all those who may not know to go ahead via „?-Button“
– various coloroptions for the radio, so everyone should find a color which suits 😉
– wireless connectable to all other JETI-radios as a trainer radio (I use this feature a lot with friends who test my airplanes)
– elegant and nice solutions directly from JETI also for all “tray-pilots“ (like DC-radios)
– optional 900MHz-TX for dual HF
– Update and telemetry visualization via JETI-Studio (similar to iTunes from apple)

What is the difference to the JETI high-class radios?
– only one 2,4-GHz HF, but dual 2,4GHz-HF-mode is possible
– optional 900Mhz HF-module
– some useful software upgrades are extra
– gimbals feeling little different compared to other JETI-radio due they are not fully aluminum
– box or case are optional

Conclusion:
After checking what the software and hardware is offering, after seeing the incredibly high quality and how it´s made plus the option to upgrade the radio to more features and more channels in my opinion the money for the DS-12 is well invested.
The idea of upgrading the radio via internet is not an idea from JETI, since years we use this technology in our smartphones and is just „state of the art“.
In my club there are also the first happy DS-12 users, some use it as main radio and others just as backup / trainer radio.
Even my father bought one DS-12 after playing with mine 😉