Peter Wyss is noted amongst his chums as a bit of a volt-head which, in layman's terms, is the electric equivalent of a petrol-head.

You might just agree with that statement or, if further proof is needed, click [read more]

There is no doubt that Peter is prepared to push the envelope when it comes to electric technology, and his tea racer (sadly rekitted) was a case in point - remembered fondly as the only aircraft to have needed to have the speed controller on the outside of the fuselage (in the style of a colostomy bag), to keep it cool enough to handle the immense wattage drawn to power a VERY small aircraft.

Anyway, Pete has done it again...

The yellow beastie in his hand is a funjet. I can't tell you what motor it has, but I can tell you that Pete flew it first with a 4 cell lipo, and it was good for a very fast vertical performance and, after the control surface movements were tamed, a very nice smooth flight behaviour (and enough motor wailing to frighten the living daylights out of Col when he got downwind of the motor briefly).

4 cells, of course, was nowhere near enough for Pete so, after 3 flights in that configuration he decided to fit a 6 cell brick, and your intrepid editor threw the Funjet for yet another flight (although, to be frank, it would have probably launched itself with all that power). So now the beastie is transformed into a monster - it takes less than 3 seconds to run the length of the field, and it wails like a banshee in the process. I haven't seen Pete give it more than about 2 seconds full chat yet, but this would have to be the fastest model I have seen in the 36 years I have been flying RC. The configuration (6 cells, same motor) that Pete has chosen has been clocked, elsewhere, at 247kph, yet it flies and lands slow and smooth when required.

I'm tempted, very tempted...and where else but WRCS would you see a twin-engined canard, a WW2 slow flyer and a 247kph rocketship flying on the same day.

Magic stuff (even if I do owe Peter Wyss a serve for his video of my Canard's briefest of "flights").

Ed