Joe Nall 2024 Plane Fun RC EXCLUSIVE!!! 2 meter Peregrine Biplane from Extreme Flight

Hi friends, welcome to the PlaneFunRC channel. I'm your host, Saul. We're here at Jonahl 2024. We have a really, really unique biplane here by Xtreme Flight called the Peregrine. Very unique, very different. One of the more stunning biplanes that's here today. And as you know, Xtreme Flight always does fantastic stuff here. It's electric and we've got the owner here. Sir, tell us your name if you don't mind, please. My name's Ben Fisher. I'm one of the owners of Xtreme Flight. We've been in business for 22 years in Cumming, Georgia. We do our own brand, house brand of aircraft. We've been working on these aircraft for 22 years. This is the 70cc sized Peregrine biplane. We also do this aircraft in a 6S electric. The job of the Peregrine is to be a maximum performance aerobatic biplane with the least amount of biplane weirdness possible. Fantastic. You've got a great design. I'll give you a little tour of what we've done here. So first off, starting from the front, the Peregrine is not a scale biplane. It's a fantasy non-scale design. So not being constrained by scale lines, we've gone for maximum cooling, particularly for gasoline engines. Now we did all of the testing on this particular one with 70 and 76cc twins. For the CEF event in South Georgia, we threw a six kilowatt outrunner in it. But normally you have flow through cooling of the cylinder heads of a 70 to 76cc engine in the front and out in the low pressure area. Now looking from the top, one of the things about biplane design is biplane designs, the wings tend to interact with each other. And a lot of the objectionable tendencies of a biplane come from the interaction of the wing panels. So if you have parallel wings on a biplane and you bring the biplane wings together to lower coupling, eventually you'll reach a point at which they start to interact, form venturis. So one of the things we've done here is we have wings that are set. The bottom wing is zero taper, zero sweep. The top wing is high taper, high sweep, which keeps the interaction between them to a minimum. They don't overlap as much as many conventional designs. We come around to the tail. We have a very large tail because this class of aircraft needs to be able to vector thrust in hover, in harrier, in torque roll. So we always have a sufficient elevator and rudder area so that we get very, very strong thrust vectoring. So the aircraft uses CNC aluminum quick latches. It's less than five minutes to put together a field. Show me those latches if you wouldn't mind. That's always important when we're doing biplanes or any plane for that matter, especially if you've got one that's set up for electric. So you can see the latches here. Our wings are attached. Our tail is attached. Our hatches, front and rear, are attached with the CNC aluminum quick latches that drop into a lock. We use these on all of our aircraft. Now show me real quick. We're looking inside. Where would we put the batteries? Would they go here or are we having to put them up in the engine compartment? So if you go with a 12S electric setup, this is our front hatch here, and you'd be putting the batteries here. And you've got the same quick latch system there. Now that is a nice setup. Folks, take a look at that. We know how difficult it is sometimes with some of our planes to get good access, easy access to the batteries, especially some of the larger ones that were designed for gas, not so much for electric. And sometimes we have to do a conversion. ExtremeFlight has taken care of that for you. Looks like they've even gone ahead, has some standoffs. Always important with your outrunners because you know that the distance from the front of the cowling to the rear of the outrunner isn't always long enough as it is on a gas engine. That's fantastic, my friend. Now, what is the wingspan on this particular airplane, if you don't mind? So this is 2 meters, 78 inches, sized for either a 6 kilowatt outrunner like our XPower 60. There's a lot of competition in the 6 kilowatt class, plenty to choose from, or if you went gasoline on it, 70 to 76 cc twin. Fantastic. What's the overall weight, let's say the gas version and in the electric version? What could you tell us about that? We're going to be in the 19 pound range on either way. Fantastic, very good. Now, when we talk about biplanes, struts can always be some of the difficult things to actually go through and put in. Do you have some type of easy release on the struts? These are simple pins, the friction pin design that works extremely well for us. So you just insert the pin, twist, done, and ready to take the pin out, twist, pull the pin. And folks, there's the pin he's talking about, slides out the front and then goes ahead and slides back in when you're ready to remove. You can see it there on the bottom, you can see it there on the top. That's a pretty mature technology in the aerobatic biplane part of the market. Using twist friction pins works very, very well. Fantastic. Folks, you've got a stellar airplane here. Check them out. Xtreme Flight, really a very unique biplane. I would encourage you to go through and check them out. And our little brother, the 6S Electric, we produced, this is coming in a couple of months, the 6S size, which is 53 inches in span. We've been selling for about a year. It's very popular for us. Fantastic folks. Fantastic airplane. Don't forget to check out Xtreme Flight. Look them up. All right, friends, more to come.