Joker 2 . . .you dont say?

[BigRagu]

Minicopter, German makers of the Joker/Acrobat Helicopters made it to IRCHA this year and they pulled out all the stops!

The 2004 IRCHA debut included the new "Joker 2" and last years secret . . .'91 powered Acrobat(IC).

This year both Gerd Guzicki (minicopter owner, designer, manufacturer) and Joe Howard (US Distributor) had Factory pilots along to demo their products. It was a shame however they were bumped from the Noon Demo on Saturday(Just too many folks with new products this year).

For those of you in attendance Ingo ripped off a killer demo with the Joker 2 just after the Iceman Commith! (Curtis Youngblood) Curtis definatly sent everyone back to school, he has a "New Baby" a "New Machine" and Oh yes . . .a "New atittitude"!

Sorry, where was I . . .Oh! I Hope you all saw the Joker 2 fly, the secret "Buggy Motor" is the size of a cold MGD can! and he wasn't taking any chances on controllers this year he had the biggest thing Schulze offers on board. (except he left off the radiator . . .it's water cooled!)

Tanic batteries was also in tow and Brian had built Gerd a special LiPo pack . . .it looked like a Six Pack of MGD's, I'm sure the lights dimmed when they charged it . . .anyway I snaped a few pic's for all the Joker fans out there so here they are. . . where'd I put that beer?

BigRagu
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[BigRagu]

Sorry, need to reduce them for posting. I'll be right back . . .

BigRagu
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[rcman]

I guess I am out
The BigRagu is keeping me out of the loop
David

[GGoodrum]

What the heck is that motor? :shock:

[ScotY]

If I had to guess, I'd say it's a Plettenberg. No reason other than because of the way the wires look. It's a monster, eh? :shock: :shock: :shock:

[BigRagu]

Sorry, I seem to have left out the name, ScotY is correct, it's a Plettenberg "Buggy Motor" It has two internal fans . . .one on top and one on the bottom. Air follows the swirled flutes around the can, they look cool and also make it cool!

It's a "Bad Boy"! I think the Tanic pack they flew was a 12S 3P . . .definiatly a Brick!
And the J2 was extremely stealth like with the new belt driven main gear too . . .I'm sure it will be on several commercial videos.

BigRagu
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[Ben74]

awesome. 12s3p on a heli that light has got to be insane. looks like it will share parts with the acrobat 90. the upper frames look the same.

[WillJames]

That is a sweet machine.

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[ScotY]

Anyone got one of these motors yet?

To the Big Ragu,

Any thought on mounting one of them up to the Ion? I'm waiting to see how you mounted the heli version Actros in the Ion. Looks, actually and ironically, more difficult to mount the heli version compared to the airplane version.

[rcman]

Scoty The big Ragu and I have talked about getting one of these but man there expensive, If I remember right it was 450.00 for the motor and then well we all know how much the Big bad Schulze ESC is for this

As for the Heli version of the Actro I am pretty sure Chris is flying one was we type and he has a mount for them

David