E-Fest 2007

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The second annual E-Fest hosted by Great planes was held on February 10th and 11th at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Armory Track and Field Facility. I attended last year’s event and had a great time and was looking forward to this year’s E-Fest. The 2007 E-Fest was even better with over 250 registered pilots, lots of spectators and many vendors. It’s a nice break for us northerners who don’t get to fly very much in the winter months.

Below are a few pictures - more to come!
The outside entrance to the Armory.
Frank Noll & Don Anderson from Great Planes with MC Bob Sadler
The new 3-channel Jenny from E-Flite (Horizon)
Jason Cole from Hobby Lobby announces for demo pilots Jason Noll and Sean McMurtry.
John Glezellis preps the ElectriFly Reactor for another exciting 3D flight.
Nick Maxwell in a low-low inverted hover with his T-Tex.

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Some more pictures:

Hobby Lobby "Lynx XF" Electric Jet .. $54.60
25-1/2" wingspan, 30-1/4" long, 165 sq. in. wing area, 14 oz. flying weight. All molded high-density bead foam airframe with carbon reinforcements.

The Horizon Hobby Booth

Futaba announced their new 6EX 2.4GHz FASST (Futaba Advanced Spread Spectrum Technology)

The ME-163 Komet is a new kit form RabidModels.com. Flew very stable and fast on inexpensive brushless motor.

Cool LED Propeller display form Kulist Ideas. Rick Kulis won Most Innovative Product. The prop is easily programed for patterns or text via USB cable and existing Windows software.