Sapphire Fuselage-suitable for 1.5m-3m gliders & eSoarers

Very good product of excellent quality. Slightly long delivery time due to the post office and French customs

I'm very pleased with te fuselage and tailboom. Also the delivery went well.
Shortly I will build a nice set of wings for it, I think about a 2m plane and hopefully it will become a nice set.

Fast delivery of excellent pod and boom. Should enable me to make up a replacement fuz for my "totalled" vintage Highlight.
Terrific service. Thank you.

Nice as it comes with the motor mount for electric flight (if one orders the option) and also the wing mount captive nuts all glued in place as well as a new canopy. Has breathed new life into my very well used and abused Sapphire.

Ordered and delivered in about 1 week to South Australia. Perfectly packaged. Fuselage and tail boom is perfect for my needs. Very reasonable price. Would easily consider a second one.. I will be using an 84 inch wing as a thermal soarer. Highly recommended Great work Hyperflight.!

A good product, well made and light weight. Great service as usual from Hyperflight, well packed for transport.

Great quality items promptly delivered and well packaged. I look forward to the build.

I ordered this from the States on the 2nd of July. I had it on the 7th of July. I am so impressed with your service! And, the items look great, I cannot wait to get started. I will be back! Thank you!

Recently purchased a glider fuselage and boom. Top quality, light and strong Sapphire pod, ideal for my plan. Great service, fantastic delivery time aprox 2 days, service is faultless thanks guys.

as ordered - perfect

Received both fuselage and boom quickly, well protected. Nice finish, bits went well together. Wood inserts for wing mount bolts a nice touch

The pod and boom arrived safely. I was impressed with the quality of the product and look forward to my winter project with it. Also impressive was the post and packaging -well protected and delivered exceptionally well and very quickly( next day) after placing the order. Great job thanks. Rob

First time I have ever ordered one of these fuselages. It is for an own build. Really delighted with the high quality finish, and the reinforcing on each side of the canopy and wing openings, that goes all the way to the the boom spigot.
The packaging was perfect. Thank you Neil

Bought for an Allegro Lite. Perfect fit on wing mount. Well built and properly reinforced. I will shop here more! Found you on RC Groups.

bought by mistake but when saw it threw my old balsa fus away and used it much better

Bought this pod and boom with a tailplane mount for an own design 1.5M glider.
Impressed with the overall quality and very light weight.

Perfect

Perfect

Just a little update. Still really happy with these fuselages. On my latest builds I've used Kevlar tape for reinforcement, although I've had no radio signal problems using carbon tape.
This fuse combined with the 18 - 8mm tapered carbon boom makes a perfect base for various set-ups.
So far I've used the fuse for a Super Gee 1.5m and a 2.3m version of the Allegro.

I've bought two of these fuselages, one normal and one with the nosecone cut and firewall fitted, which for the extra £3.00 is more than worth the money and effort.
I'm scratch building a 1500 (60") DLG and an electric version too, along the lines of the SuperGee II. Originally I was going to make my own fuse but this Sapphire fuse takes care of everything, "why reinvent the wheel?"
The wing position and wing seating are taken care of along with the tapered spigot which the 18-8mm boom just fits right on to. The Blaster 2 & 3 V mount fits the boom giving you an 'all moving tail'
On the 'cut nose' version it looks like the guys have already taken care of the 'down' and 'right' thrust fitting the firewall. I've fitted a little D2822-14 1450kv outrunner motor which slots straight in perfectly. I'm going to be using a 8x6 folding prop, 2s Lipo with a 30A ESC. It's only for initial altitude.
The 'cut nose' fuse also came with pre-drilled plywood wing mounts already fitted. The fuse is super light but I felt it could with a little stiffening and added a carbon tape on the inside along the bottom and both sides. This stiffened the fuse significantly and added very little weight. (in hindsight I probably should have used Kevlar for radio purposes)
The fuse already comes with stiffening around the top edge at the canopy opening, wing seat and down through the inside of the spigot where the boom fits.

All in all, I'm really pleased with the Sapphire fuse and am planning to use it as my base pod for gliders up to 3m.

The service from Hyperflight was superb and they were very helpful with their aftersales information over the telephone.

.. it seems I can't edit my last review so here is an addendum.
The reinforcement I used was 2 layers 3oz s glass and 1 layer 3.5oz Inegra. Stiffened up the fuselage nicely. Will see how it holds up when I have finished the wing.

Lovely pod, overall proportions are just right for an Allegro (and Allegro Lite) clone. Needs a bit of extra reinforcement if planning to use a towhook. Wrap tang with either carbon or kevlar cloth or tow to get correct fit for 18mm ID boom.

Good price, great service, well done again Neil and colleagues.

This is the second of these pods and booms that I have purchased. I am so pleased with the results from the first model using this fus I am building another.

Hyperflight's speed of delivery and care with packing etc always pleases.

The moulding is clean, very light and suits my 2 metre design very well.

great fuselage for the money!

Good quality item & as usual very well packed.

Light glass fuselage with some carbon reinforcement; motor mount easy to fit after cutting nose off. I used colloidal silica and epoxy fillet at rear. 18-8 boom fitted simply and quickly. I reinforced frontal area with inner kevlar doubler because Im hard on gliders. Ended up with an easy to build and light 2250mm span esoarer assembled very quickly .

No criticisms currently. Excellent product and knock out pricing.

Great quality lightweight fuselage pod. Good size balance - big enough for 28mm outrunners, RC gear and batteries but still small and streamlined.

Used with Hyperflight 18mm boom and Topsky 2 wings for an electric powered DLG.

See this RCGroups discussion for more info:
www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1801899