Plans pack to build
WhizzyWig XGE - Download here!!
Radio controlled
'Extreme Ground Effect' WIG/Ekranoplan
Model (Release 1.1)
The Most Extreme
Model You Can Make!
A 1105 mm/ 43.5 inch Ekranoplan
(‘wing-in-ground-effect’) model
for 3 'Speed 400 - 480' type motors and three-function radio control
for construction from balsa, thin
ply and foamboard.
Some years ago I developed a Plans
Pack for a radio
controlled working model Ekranoplan -
the 'WhizzyWig XGE' based on my MK4 & MK5 models. I am delighted to now make the Plans Pack free to download!!
(**** donation gratefully accepted! *****).
There is a lot of good stuff in the plans pack
even if you don't built it.
Great for
school or university projects!
- Use WhizzyWig XGE to learn about boat, hovercraft and aircraft dynamics, and
have fun at the same time! Click
this link for some ideas
The
story of the development of my models is told in 'Mind the Gap!' March
2002 issue of Marine Modelling International magazine and in my article
A Practical Guide to WIG Models
More fun than a conventional boat!
Like a high-speed dragster with a bit of /seat-of-the-pants flying
thrown in for extra excitement. WhizzyWig XGE operates in three modes:
Displacement mode: High
manoeuvrability and reliable steering control.
PAR mode for medium
speed cruise and amphibious operation: The ‘power assisted ram’
(PAR) from its front fans gives fast take-off, enabling it to run over
most smooth surfaces, including short grass, snow, ice, and especially
water. WhizzyWig XGE will even climb quite steep hills on grass or snow!
In PAR mode WhizzyWig XGE is highly manoeuvrable.
XGE mode: Full speed
extreme-ground-effect flying over water, she runs like a drag boat
but without touching the water!
DOWNLOAD THE WHIZZYWIG XGE
PLANS PACK:
The Plans Pack comprises a zipped
file with:
Full size AO drawings (.pdf)
A comprehensive 20 page
illustrated guide to construction with advice on set up and operation (.pdf)
WhizzyWig XGE Plans Pack Download (via Paypal donation):
Donations will go to the
cost of maintaing this site to make the plans pack avaiable in future. Once
you have have gone though Paypal you will be taken to a page with the download
link to the zipped file.
WhizzyWig XGE Plans Pack Download (via Paypal donation): Donations will go to the
cost of maintaing this site to make the plans pack avaiable in future. Once
you have have gone though Paypal you will be taken to a page with the download
link to the zipped file.
Here are other people's models built from the WhizzyWig XGE
plans pack or inspired by/similar to the WhizzyWig design:
Spring 2005: Mickael
Chazaux in France has made this model straight from the plans for a
school project.
Spring 2005: Robert Love, Auburn
University, Alabama, USA has built this WhizzyWig XGE for research as part
of his studies for Aerospace and Materials Engineering Degree.
Here you can see the model is connected to a tether for closely controlled
flight. See it in action.
Another view of Robert Love's WhizzyWig XGE model.
December 2004: Keith Reed's magnificent WhizzyWig XGe
model, in Australia
Keith Reed's WhizzyWig video action - undergoing
trials over grass in Australia. Click photo to run video.
November 2002: Terry Elliot’s second model based on
the WhizzyWig plans. He says he has made a few modifications: the hull is 25
mm lower, it is much narrower at the bow and the stern, and the sponsons are
shorter. The battery sits in the hull below the wing to keep the c of g as
low as possible and it weighs only 1450g. He has fitted a speed 400's on the
front and a 480 on the tail.
One of the first WhizzyWig
XGE models to be built from the Plans Pack (-
they only became available in December 2001).
This fine craft was made by Terry Elliott
in England. Amazingly it took him just six weeks from receipt of plans
to trials in XGE mode! (April 2002)
Terry's model reaches for the skies. Actually it was never designed to
go that high!
Alvin Cheung, in Hong Kong,
adapted his WhizzyWig XGE plans to produce this very 'Caspian Sea Monster' like
machine (April 2002).
Nick James's beautiful
WhizzyWig XGE ready for sea trials, June 2002
Marijn van de Ruit in The Netherlands
built this beautiful model, seen next to his 1/144 scale plastic kit of the
Russian A-90 Orlyonok ekranoplan.
Another photo of
Marijn van de Ruit's model
Some WhizzyWigs by modellers in France exhibited at the Paris 2006 Model
Exhibition.
Unfortunately I
don't know who built these models. You can see there they come in
different sizes. The one in the model is quite diminutive.
Here are other
people's models that are remarkably similar to WhizzyWig, although I don't
know for sure just how much they were inspired by it.
For more general discussion about
WIG/Ekranoplan design have a look at the RC Groups.com General Ekranoplan
Topic discussion group - excellent stuff to be found here:
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