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"Skywalker" platform made in glass fibre

Posted by Robert Krogh (hooks) on October 18, 2010 at 12:30pm

I know many of you people out there asked for the Skywalker made in Glass fibre or Kevlar.

I found the plane and I think it looks very much like the foam Skywalker version.

The model is made in strong GF and has a wingspan on 1.6 M.

Wings are made in balsa and the total weight is around 1 kg.

Here you have some pictures.

The foam version of the UAV and FPV planes

No more intell about new frames or platforms. ;-)

glass, platform, uav, fibre

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Robert Krogh (hooks) October 23, 2010 at 5:50am

I'm glad I didn't order 50 of this Skywalker copy.. Now we know Hobby-king is behind the platform.

The company who manufacture the model is Guilin Xin Ying Fei Xiang Aircraft Model

I think the price will be around 130-150 USD. I know that Hobbyking ordered 100 pcs. of this model in the first batch. I guess it will soon be out of stock after release.
Andrew Van Der Plaats October 23, 2010 at 4:31am

My take of this is we've been teased with some interesting photos, but when it
comes to details, such as cost and date of availability neither this thread or the
one over on rcgroups has been very helpful.
Yves Gohy October 23, 2010 at 2:28am

Hi, it's a post from HobbyKingLive on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/hobbykinglive#!/album.php?aid=27039&id=...
JONATHAN October 22, 2010 at 9:58am

just found this.....a dream come true, for me anyways!
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1318116
Bill Vickers October 20, 2010 at 2:09pm

Almost looks like these:

http://fpvhobby.com/25-us-army-fpv-airplane.html
johannes October 20, 2010 at 1:53pm

where can someone get it?
DJB October 20, 2010 at 12:29pm

I think the manufacturer is the Guilin Xin Ying Fei Xiang Aircraft Model Co., Ltd.
Tom Kopp October 20, 2010 at 9:50am

Estimated price on something like that?
JONATHAN October 19, 2010 at 3:31pm

Hooks, what vendor are the mini and composite skywalker's going to be available through?
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Robert Krogh (hooks) October 19, 2010 at 11:10am

Wings are made out of balsa wood.