Le Fishipedia



Welcome to Le Fishipedia
Dedicated to the Le Fish open source radio controlled aerobatics glider.

History

 * History of Le Fish
 * Background
 * VTPR and the MiniToons
 * Scratching An Itch: Birth of Le Fish
 * Le Fish Makes a Splash
 * Swiss Peter and the Ultralight Revolution

Building Le Fish

 * Le Fish Plans
 * Considerations before starting
 * Building for your typical lift conditons
 * Building for your preferred flying style
 * Building for Madflight capabilities
 * Build Weights
 * Ultralight Build (17-21oz / 480-600g)
 * Midweight Build (25-30oz / 700-850g)
 * Traditional Build (35-40oz+ / 1000-1150g+)
 * Two Piece Wing Build
 * How to “Swiss” your fish
 * Laminate techniques
 * The Mad Stab
 * Push/pull
 * Pull/pull
 * Pulleys
 * Chain drive
 * Twincam hybrid pulley-pushrod
 * 2PES - 2 Point Exponential System
 * The Mad Rudder
 * Complete 650g (22oz) Le Fish Build (video) by Andrew Newton

Radio Requirements

 * Radio Requirements
 * Turnigy 9X Programming Guide

Flying Le Fish

 * Basic Tuning: CG, throws, mixes: snapflap


 * 4 Axis flying (dynamic reflex &amp; camber on the throttle stick)


 * Elevator Flips
 * Rudder Flips


 * Ultrabatics

Picture and Video Gallery

 * Complete 650g (22oz) Le Fish Build (video)
 * Justin "JGAF" Gafford on Youtube
 * Dawson Henderson on Vimeo
 * Steve "Surfimp" Lange on Vimeo
 * Peter Richner on Vimeo

Le Fish Vendors

 * Leading Edge Gliders - Full Kits for both Ultralight and Traditional Build (USA)


 * Flying Foam - Fuselage & wing core sets (USA)
 * French Le Fish - Christophe Chanudet (France)
 * South African Le Fish - Eric Arnaud (South Africa)

Other Le Fish -Inspired Gliders

 * “Spade” fishes
 * Traceur - Modellbau Joost (Germany)
 * Le Fishray - Modellismo 6 Alisei (Italy)
 * Vagabond 1500 - Hacker Models (Czech Rebublic)

Other Popular Aerobatic Designs
Scratchbuild projects: EPP: Composite: Wood:
 * KONA - by Benny Wachtelaer
 * The Poisson - Le Fish of the poor
 * The Buzz and Buzz Evolution - JGAF's Custom Aerobats (USA)
 * Flow, Suraci and Trapeze - SlopeSoarer.com (USA)
 * MiniToons v1 and v2 - EPPConcept (France)
 * Swinger - Team Monkey (Cornwall, UK)
 * Mini Quark - Island Models (Ireland)
 * Voltij and Coquillaj - Aeromod (France)
 * Wasabi - FlyBiWo (Belgium)
 * Jedi - Airtech-RC (France)
 * Madslide - Jivaro-Models (France)
 * Swinger - Team Monkey (Cornwall, UK)
 * Kulbutin - Topmodel (France)
 * Graecalis - Volo In Pendio Project (Italy)
 * Stingray - WingsAndMore (Germany)
 * Stingray - XModels (Italy)
 * Cortals 2 and Fun Acro - BLH Andorra (Andorra)
 * Quark - Island Models (Ireland)
 * Akhenaton - SilenceModel (France)







