Welcome to Le Fishipedia
Dedicated to the Le Fish open source radio controlled aerobatics glider.
Table of Contents
History
- History of Le Fish
- Background
- VTPR and the MiniToons
- Scratching An Itch: Birth of Le Fish
- Le Fish Makes a Splash
- Swiss Peter and the Ultralight Revolution
Building Le Fish
- Le Fish Plans
- Considerations before starting
- Build Weights
- Two Piece Wing Build
- How to “Swiss” your fish
- Laminate techniques
- The Mad Stab
- The Mad Rudder
- Complete 650g (22oz) Le Fish Build (video) by Andrew Newton
Radio Requirements
Flying Le Fish
- Elevator Flips
- Rudder Flips
Picture and Video Gallery
- Complete 650g (22oz) Le Fish Build (video)
- Justin "JGAF" Gafford on Youtube
- Dawson Henderson on Vimeo
- Steve "Surfimp" Lange on Vimeo
- Peter Richner on Vimeo
Le Fish Vendors
- Flying Foam - Fuselage & wing core sets (USA)
- French Le Fish - Christophe Chanudet (France)
- South African Le Fish - Eric Arnaud (South Africa)
Other Le Fish -Inspired Gliders
- “Spade” fishes
- Traceur - Modellbau Joost (Germany)
- Le Fishray - Modellismo 6 Alisei (Italy)
- Vagabond 1500 - Hacker Models (Czech Rebublic)
Other Popular Aerobatic Designs
Scratchbuild projects:
EPP:
- The Buzz and Buzz Evolution - JGAF's Custom Aerobats (USA)
- Flow, Suraci and Trapeze - SlopeSoarer.com (USA)
- MiniToons v1 and v2 - EPPConcept (France)
- Swinger - Team Monkey (Cornwall, UK)
- Mini Quark - Island Models (Ireland)
Composite:
- Voltij and Coquillaj - Aeromod (France)
- Wasabi - FlyBiWo (Belgium)
- Jedi - Airtech-RC (France)
- Madslide - Jivaro-Models (France)
- Swinger - Team Monkey (Cornwall, UK)
- Kulbutin - Topmodel (France)
- Graecalis - Volo In Pendio Project (Italy)
- Stingray - WingsAndMore (Germany)
- Stingray - XModels (Italy)
Wood: