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Diamond Aircraft Industries of Austria produces the HK36 Super Dimona 2-seat motor glider. This model kit was originally sold back in the glory days of Hobby Lobby and is no longer available.
The kit is comprised of medium weight fiberglass fuselage and built-up wings that yield a 95" span final product. When this bird became available I immediately jumped as I knew it was built by the electric sailplane master Lenny Keer who had not flown it in many years. It's just about 200 mph too slow for Lenny. ;-) Power is a Scorpion 3020-14 motor turning a 9x6 prop on 4S 65C LiPo power.
The plane arrived Plain Jane white with red winglets. While setting up the radio and swapping over connectors to Anderson Power Poles, I dressed her up a bit yesterday with bits from my graphics scrap file. The maiden flight was this morning at Waveny Park in New Canaan, CT. Now that I know it is a FANTASTIC flying plane I'll be going to Callie to finish out the graphics!
Take-off roll was nice at 1/3 throttle and it jumped into the air at about half. Absolutely beautiful in flight on power and when simply gliding. It definitely does indicate lift well as I worked a couple weak morning bumps. Climb at 1/2 throttle is very scale. Pour on full throttle and it will scoot right up. Nice to have that added margin of power if I ever get it into trouble. Landing was a non-event just settling gently into the grass.
Lenny converted the plane from a trike into a tail dragger (still considered scale) and did a beautiful job moving the gear forward. Tail wheel is fully steerable. Overall a definite keeper! Here are a few cell phone photos from this morning...
The kit is comprised of medium weight fiberglass fuselage and built-up wings that yield a 95" span final product. When this bird became available I immediately jumped as I knew it was built by the electric sailplane master Lenny Keer who had not flown it in many years. It's just about 200 mph too slow for Lenny. ;-) Power is a Scorpion 3020-14 motor turning a 9x6 prop on 4S 65C LiPo power.
The plane arrived Plain Jane white with red winglets. While setting up the radio and swapping over connectors to Anderson Power Poles, I dressed her up a bit yesterday with bits from my graphics scrap file. The maiden flight was this morning at Waveny Park in New Canaan, CT. Now that I know it is a FANTASTIC flying plane I'll be going to Callie to finish out the graphics!
Take-off roll was nice at 1/3 throttle and it jumped into the air at about half. Absolutely beautiful in flight on power and when simply gliding. It definitely does indicate lift well as I worked a couple weak morning bumps. Climb at 1/2 throttle is very scale. Pour on full throttle and it will scoot right up. Nice to have that added margin of power if I ever get it into trouble. Landing was a non-event just settling gently into the grass.
Lenny converted the plane from a trike into a tail dragger (still considered scale) and did a beautiful job moving the gear forward. Tail wheel is fully steerable. Overall a definite keeper! Here are a few cell phone photos from this morning...
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