Thread: Century Airwolf 50 Fuse/electric Conversion

I have been given a Century Airwolf 50 size fuselage for my birthday that i am looking forward to building and painting as a winter project..

Was gonna put a Raptor 50 in it like my TT MD530 fuselage has but i dislike the smoke and engine noise

Been reading about people fitting electrics into fuselages and i like the idea of a scale like sound,no exhaust smoke and no gunk deposited on it etc

I am looking into either a Raptor 50 electric or less likely a T Rex 600

Ballistic power would not be reqd,would settle for a good flight time

Also assuming i could just have 1 lipo permanently fitted inside and just have access for connecting charger etc..


I am not worried about the ability to swap lipos and getting it airbourne again in a hurry as i would fly other stuff and wouldnt want to fly the Airwolf more than a couple of times per day anyway



I am a complete electric beginner really having only fiddled with small stuff in the past

I see this as an exciting project that would really suit an electric application




Any suggestions welcome from seasoned electric fliers would be great in helping me choose my path


Chris

I read the Rotorworld article on the Swift and it had an Augusta 109 in the same issue,these gave me the idea of doing it..

The Century fuselage is capable of taking most 50 size mechanics so a leccy 50 shouldnt be a problem i suppose

Im gonna trawl the net for info on the Rex 600 to see if thats any good

Also gonna look in to the availability of the raptor electric 50,,the new Se version is too expensive and i have a spare metal headblock anyway...

In the instructions it gives the measurements for putting a Raptor 50 into it,the pitch arm needs a bit taken off which is OK

The Raptor electric is CCPM anyway so no pitch arm

leaning towards a Rex 600 i think having done a bit of digging

Hi,

Andy Hall wrote the article about the electric Airwolf conversion. Andy now works at for Century UK at their HQ in Kent - I am sure if you give them a ring he will be happy to give you some help (he is a great guy).

Regards

John Clark