Developer Comment by Mark Colwell on February 18, 2010 at 9:55am

Nice looking craft

Comment by Wyliest on February 18, 2010 at 10:04am

Yeah can you say any thing about the design? Like what its called and how made it. Looks like a good moderately fast plane.

Comment by Rhett "Wreck" Phillips on February 18, 2010 at 10:17am

The design is simple and rugged. It is inspired by cargo planes with the box tail and fairly high aspect ratio wings. Box tails are not my favorite but I wanted a really high tail volume ratio for lots of authority. It can skid-to-turn so I can get video with zero roll if I want. I designed and built it. One of my friends dubbed it "Prowler" and the name stuck.

Admin Comment by Thomas J Coyle III on February 18, 2010 at 11:48am

Looks like a big version of the Multiplex Twin Star II except with minimal fuse and box tail.

The TSII is a good heavy lift model when equipped with the correct outrunner motors.

Regards,
TCIII

Comment by muratagenc on April 17, 2011 at 7:11am

what is the range? did you use anything other than regular RC radio?

Comment by Rhett "Wreck" Phillips on April 18, 2011 at 2:19pm

This one has off-the-shelf RC gear, nothing fancy.

Comment by Matt H on March 27, 2012 at 12:03pm

Thought this looked really nifty. If you have evolved it, or have more links to 

Comment by Matt H on March 27, 2012 at 1:15pm

to components (especially the landing gear), I'd love to see them. 

Comment by Rhett "Wreck" Phillips on March 28, 2012 at 11:21am

Thank you for your kind words. I have designed and built a newer, larger airplane but have yet to take any good photos. The design is completely different because the newer plane is for a different purpose. Anyhow, the landing gear and "fuselage" in the photo above are carbon fiber. I built them in the small composites shop where I work part-time: www.beehivecomposites.com . We do lot's of fun little projects and aircraft. Below is a really poor photo of the new one. It's much more impressive and has already been flying since June 2010!  For display purposes the landing gear is not installed. It actually has skinny little wheels in the winglets and a steer-able nose wheel when it flies. The dome on the bottom is for a Synthetic Aperature Radar (SAR  www.imsar.com). The photo is from AUVSI 2010.

Comment by Matt H on March 28, 2012 at 1:43pm

Pretty awesome (the imagery looks like sidescan sonar).  Do you have a build log for your latest plane?

Else I'll need to modify a Herc or something:     

http://crashtesthobby.com/products/hercules-78

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