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The Homepages for the Electric Flyers Only, Inc.
AMA Charter 2354
Walled Lake, MI, USA

Site Started: 28 January 1996
Maintained by: Ken Myers

Fly the Future - Fly Electric!

July '08: Ampeer in Adobe Acrobat .PDF format
July 2008 Ampeer in HTML format
What's On This Site:
Site Table of Contents



Some of the planes and features in the July 2008 issue of the Ampeer

The 2008 Mid-America Electric Flies are a GO!

Keith and I have settled on a field for the 2008 Mid-Am. It is the 7 Mile Rd. Flying Field of the Midwest RC Society. It is located a few miles north and west of the MRCS field that WAS located on 5 Mile Rd.

Overnight Camping Permitted!

Flyer 2008

Map to field & Hotels List

HTML combined version for viewing online

Select power system components easily and quickly using the FREE Drive Calculator program for Windows or the Mac. Click here to go to the Drive Calculator page

UPDATED May 2008! One Way of Selecting a Brushless Outrunner Electric Motor for a Radio Controlled (RC or R/C) Sport Plane or Sport Scale Plane Using M1 (A123 Systems NanophospateTM lithium iron phosphate) Cells

Reviews
Review and Construction of the
SR Batteries Bantam monoplane

Please note that this review is not available at this time

Review and Construction of the
SR Batteries Cutie Park Flyer
Review and Constrution Article:
The SR Batteries X250
Assembly and Review:
Multiplex EasyStar RTF

     My name is Ken Myers. I am a retired Walled Lake Schools elementary Media Specialist/Computer Resource Teacher (4 years) and 5th grade teacher (27.6 years). I enjoy electrically powered, radio controlled aircraft.
     I am best known in the electric community for this Web site, as well as being president of the EFO (Electric Flyers Only, Inc.), Ampeer newsletter editor, past president of NEAC (National Electric Aircraft Council), former CD of the Electric Nationals, occasional magazine article author, co-CD of the Mid-America Electric Flies, and flying buddy of Keith Shaw.

My Planes: Information on some of my planes. Includes full reviews and construction of the SR Batteries' X-250 & Cutie.
About Me: Personal information and some of my background.

Airfoil Plotting Program (Profili) A FREE airfoil plotting program by Stefano Durone of Italy. Contains over 1000 airfoils that you can add to and/or modify. The program has been updated to save the file in .dxf format to import into CAD programs.

Jim Ryan's Excel Weight Estimation Spreadsheet This is the spreadsheet mentioned in his Model Airplane News column Cybernews. It is pretty handy.

WXPort
For weather details:
Right click the link above
Select "Open Link in New Window"
When finished viewing,
close Window and you'll be back here

MapQuest Get door to door driving instructions to go to an e-flight meet, or anywhere else!

     Unlike other sites, there is NO paid advertising on this site! When you see an ad link, Ken Myers uses and recommends the product(s), supplier or manufacturer. He uses the "stuff" or supplier himself!

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since March 27, 1996.