Reviews

Weight is good & the geometry is perfect for 30mm nose cones. GM 10x6 prop sits flat against the fuse. Nice.

Saved 10g in the nose and freed up lots of space :-) Works well with the X power light for F5J. Yet to test telemetry data but will get there soon enough. Programming was a bit fiddly (BL Heli etc.) but once the software was all setup the actual programming worked well.

An ESC with the same ESC's drones philosophy.
A fantastic option for F5J where you want high BEC voltage. Essentially the same as the slim, but with an aluminium heatsink and 8V BEC.
You can, at your risk, take out the aluminum sink and put a clear heat shrink tube, and you'll got the same weight as the slim with those 8V BEC.
A great product.
Of course Hyperflight continues it's service second to none.

Neil is fantastic and always available to offer support!

Thanks Neil! Lovely model and finish, requires patience and consideration for servo placement. Plenty of supporting doco around the place. Most importantly it penetrates, thermals and reacts pleasingly. I'm still experimenting with thermal flap angle, but thats just me. This model is my goto when a 1.5m ship is too big. Would I buy another? yes.

Really great 1m DLG. Bought it as a replacement for my ELF (which are basically out of production at present). It’s a little heavier I think - it holds more speed but with flaperons you can camber it nicely. Still fine tuning it but it’s a fantastic model, great build quality. Maiden I had a couple light launches, tweaked the CG and gave it a decent launch for a 19minute 53second flight. That tells you about all you need to know - not bad!

This motor is Awsome for a RES glider...In the meantime I've got three of these..
Dualski for ever in my upcoming gliders!

I haven’t started building yet but went through the kit and looked over all the pieces and what great quality I found there. Organized well that it received no damage in shipping. Plans are large and easy to read. Can’t wait to get it in the air

Great little plane for small hills/sand dunes in light winds, ideal for trying small slopes whilst out walking as easy to add to a back pack completely assembled for travelling. I can only say I have not experienced any of the negative comments in some of the reviews and this is my 3rd Alula, all of which are still flying. Why 3 my son and grandson fly with me at times and these are great fun models.

Excellent spinner with appropriate propeller to give good flat prop foldback.
Prompt shipping, excellent service.

does what it says on the tin. fly till motor cuts, check altimeter(660ft ish), close throttle,
simples.

Brilliant product for my unfortunate mishap and swift delivery as usual. My tailboom is now fixed and I have got material left for future use.

Shipping was pretty fast. Delivery address that the label had was incorrect, luckily I saw it and notified sales and they got it redirected. I have been out of the hobby for about 45 years but this is not a beginners kit. You must read the plans well before starting to understand how or what you need to do in what order due to no instructions. You will need to add 3.25 to 3.5” of fuselage length in order to achieve CG and no additional weight. This also allowed for all the equipment to be placed unrestricted directly behind the motor. I added balsa from carbon fiber leading and trailing edges to each rib for additional strength. Due to we travel in a motor home I made the rudder so it’s removable by adding a 2” portion of the 3mm carbon rod to protrude down through tail boom and used a 3/16” piece of rc gas line slipped over it to hold in place below tail boom. Spring pull is my next install in lue of push rods to save weight.

HyperFlight comment: A photo build manual is now available: https://manuals.kohlsrcmodels.com/en/freya-hlg-e-ev

Using these on a nan explorer 5 with xpower windy, thrust is great and pulling 50 amps. Fully ballasted it gets me to 250 m in under a minute. Great product

As usual, excelent product and top brand from HF with the kind attention from Neil.

Been making models for more than 50 years, this is by far the best and most complete kit that I have ever purchased. The jigs and the CNC cut parts were a great help however the build time was greatly reduced to just a few days which did spoil my fun a little.

Not in use yet but looks very well made, happy with my purchase.

great product, solder points a little on the small side however they are installed and work very well.

I purchased the RTF carbon layup version. It is well packaged to protect from any bumps in the delivery.

This came with the CHA DS06 servos pre installed along with all control surfaces set up. Pretty much install receiver, battery, attach wings and tailplane then balance and fly! I fitted a decased Spektrum AR410 which only just fits in the nose. The battery (1s lipo 300mah) fits just behind the servos to get a perfect CofG. Comes in at 136grams with this configuration.

It is very well finished, stunning looking machine.

Easy to launch high, it does like to be kept a bit of speed compared to other 1m dlgs like the mini dart 2 and can feel a little twitchy in comparison but that works to it's favour to make tight turns to keep in light lift and precision flying.

Quick delivery / good product

Speedy delivery as ever from HYPERFLIGHT. The quality of the wood, plastic hinges, and screw is excellent. The self-adhesive of the soft rubber is poor and requires the application of better glue

Great company with great items

Using these on a nan explorer 5 with xpower windy, thrust is great and pulling 50 amps. Fully ballasted it gets me to 250 m in under a minute. Great product

Excellent quality with quick service

Nothing new, same old "fantastic service"!!!! Very well packed and arrived in perfect condition and fast. You can't go wrong with this company!! Numerous purchases have all been A1 service.
Kerry

This ballast kit came with more than enough steel rods to make all the ballast sticks I needed. It is specifically designed for the Vortex 3 and there are plenty of weights.

The quality of the Vortex 3 is top notch! It flies so well and thermals like a dream. My all up weight is 246 grams with a 850 milliamp battery in the nose to balance it. I ended up putting the tray further back in the fuselage and I think that's why I needed the extra weight. Either way it flies amazing at that weight and I get over 2 hours of flight time.
Service was great as usual, they are always responsive to my questions and shipping is super fast.
This is the third glider I bought here and I will be by my next one from here too.

Just ordered a Forza 2.5m model which is my second Aeroic glider from HyperFlight in 2 days. I’m really looking forward to receiving them both. Vender was prompt in processing my first order and was actually gracious with his time whilst answering my questions on a Sunday. Given this, I was a bit surprised that he was rather dismissive of a request I made on this second purchase - read my message but simply didn’t reply. Strange, but no matter, I’ll remain a loyal customer…

Beautiful little 30" DLG. I was surprised that it is quite strong and launches rather well for a 3 oz, built-up glider. E Max 9251 servos fit well. I am using a 1s 380 lipo in the nose.

The kit is very well designed and crafted. The 3d printed parts make tail mounting and boom alignment very easy! Build is straightforward. Bargain price too. I'll probably build another.

On the downside, my kit was missing one of the 1.5mm carbon rods for the trailing edge. I sourced a replacement from amazon, but I had to order 4. Frustrating.

I used ultracote lite for my wing and twisting is a real danger/problem. It is workable but be careful!

High end, quality and precise servo.

All good smooth runner no problems very quick delivery as is normal for hyper flight.

Bought to replace, after previous one stopped working.
Great service.

Neil always makes sure he sells the best quality. He was out of stock when I first ordered, but when it finally came in it was worth the wait. Only the best

I bought two of these for my two two metre Res E gliders. Just fitted them in ine with the throttle lead and hey presto it just works. It also resets onec you are below the chosen height, just in case you need to power up. Very small as well.

Straight forward setup with Xpower Windy. Seems to be reliable. A very useable size for tight F5J nosecones. Not much more to say really.

Bought to replace a geared Hacker in my ancient F5J AVA. Needed a little ballast to maintain correct cg but provides more than enough power on 3s LiPo and 10/6 prop. Highly recommended. Will probably re-use in a more up to date F5J model shortly. Usual speedy, reliable, service from Hyperflight.

Haven’t actually been able to put the product to use yet but their service is exceptional!

Hello, my name is Mr. Evans. I built my mini dart 2 which i further enjoyed little bit fiddly because being so small but I know have at least 60 flights with it and it is a beautiful so easy to fly. I just love every time I fly it. I will definitely buy another one in the winter. The model is beautifully made very easy to build doesn’t need a lot of elevator movement everything else was fine highly recommend it thank you Mr Evans.

As ordered, fast delivery

Good product - great company

Great products and great company ro deal with

Excellent product service great.

Amazing delivery time from HYPERFLIGHT as ever.
The Kit was perfectly packaged in a nice box. The manual is written in German but has excellent color pictures. The plan is made with high-quality paper and printed in color lines. It is easy to follow the instructions for construction because all the parts have an ID grabbed with a laser over the wood and written in the plan. Quality of the wood and laser cut is of the other word.
Misses. Pushroods and clevises are metallic. CF and plastic will save weight in the tail. The head of the plastic screws in the wing and horizontal stab are exposed to the airflow with poor aerodynamics. The ballast box is not present for flying in windy conditions. It is a great value for an impressive glider. German quality as ever.

these are top quality props. using on a nan orion and they are performing well. carbon also looks good with the carbon fuselage ! recommended product and i will buy again.

Wing fixings for my new Vector 4 disappeared into the void of my car boot. Neil to the rescue!!

Very nicely made set of bags. I'm using these for the 3-piece wing for my Magic 2 I'm just finishing. Plenty of room. And yes as another review mentioned, it would be nice to have extra pockets - in my case for the tailplane and tail fin (which is removeable on the Magic 2) but I'll just bag them separately.

I have the glass version fitted out with a Xpower Windy motor. Perfect combination for my purposes.
Aerobatics is fun. Model thermals ok although a little more dihedral would help there. Great value.

From placing order to front door in less than 24 hours. That's great

Worked limiting height to 200m right out of the box. Pretty much plug and go. It does make things more complicated in terms of knowing when your ESC is armed. It also beeps to indicate when it's working so you'll notice more beeps and delays in your ESC arming.

I now have two of these that got fromHyperflight. They arrived promptly and have performed on 2 cells and 3 cells in my RES models to my complete satisfaction
Recommend the service and motors.

Purchased the glass and subsequently the carbon one for my kid and myself, both fairly straight forward to complete with a fairly generous fuselage space apart from height but not an issue once you have the right sized servos - the Bluebird 101s fit perfectly.
Both are fairly docile to launch and fly and had several 5+ minute flights after hunting out thermal activity over the fields from 30m launches.
They perform relatively similar but the fibre glass build is rather easy to dent and disfigure the surfaces in the construction phase and with heavy catches/landings - the carbon build no such issues.
To compare, we also have a Hawk 2 1m dlg which is much twitchier and likes to be flown at more speed to get the best out of it although I feel it is more sensitive to thermals, you are always on edge flying it whereas the MD2 is more relaxing and I would suggest I nice intermediate dlg to move on to.
Very quick delivery and well packed as usual from Hyperflight so excellent service as always.

Having lost the wing fixings for my new Dlg, I figure a few spares can’t be a bad thing… Neil to the rescue!!

Wing fixings for my new Vector 4 disappeared into the void of my car boot. Neil to the rescue!!

Good quality...perfect for my new model

Excellent service from Hyperflight as always, quick delivery and good products

I bought two for my NG2 and Eli. Slid them in with no problem due to their small size, Set up as instructions, and both are operating fine. A good product at relativey cheap price, and almost plug and play.

Excellent product excellent delivery thank you hyperflight.

Great motor for a Prestige 2PK Storm. Lots of power on a 4s battery.

Good product. Exactly what I need for my 5m scale glider

Been banging my head against the wall trying to get the Arduino to connect every time I had to programme a new BL Heli ESC (i.e. to change braking setting for geared motors), whereas his little beaut worked immediately and perfectly! Also, didn't seem to need to download any driver. (Arduino now in bin.)

Light and strong, I will be using them on my next plane build.

Easy to order and arrived well packaged very quickly

Motor working well, 10X6 Aeronaut prop, 32mm spinner, 1000 mAH 3S,
34-36amps launching an 1850gram glider no problem.

Very nice and important part of the gliders .strong enough 4 flight

These seemed tremendous value and the second pair I fitted were and flew well! Unfortunately when I fitted the first pair one blade just fell apart where the hinge pin passes through, it appeared to have a flaw in the plastic, not visible. As I ordered 2 pairs and they were not very expensive it was not worth complaining. If your buying these, maybe get 2 pairs just in case.

5stars. The kit. Was excellent.

This is an excellent, highly recommended, very compact unit. Sets itself up and therefore easy to use. Had initial problem with jittering on prop at motor start which was easily cured by using a start delay (ramp start) on my tx motor settings.

Perfect in every way quick delivery good product availability.

Excellent spinners that come with various collet sizes, and at a much better price than most.

Nice deal with HF
Thanks

Used for battery supply in RG65 RC model yacht. Light, compact and seems to do the job well. Good description on website and comprehensive instructions with switch. Advantage in that came already fitted with just the right plugs I needed for easy installation.

Always very prompt shipping, and Royal Mail unlike the USPS gives updates all along the way as to the status of my package. I usually takes longer on the US Side to get it than it did getting it out of England.

The PuRES V2 kit is terrific and builds quickly. The parts fit is really perfect throughout the entire kit. It flies terrific and indicates lift extremely well. Looking forward to flying it more! Most importantly, the service that Hyperflight provides is 1st class.

If it helps anyone: I fly at ~1,700m(5600ft) - I agree with Wiz, not a huge difference but just a little more pull than the CN7x4s have.

Battery arrived very quickly, great service , good price ,many thanks

Built this model over the last couple of months ,the kit quality is great. A bit of previous building experience is probably required, the wing jig help a lot to keep it straight. I used the tiny bluebird bms101dmg servos through out and dualsky motor with a 1350 3s LiPo. Model turned out very light and flies really well, recommended .

Quick delivery as usual Not much you can say about the wire really appears good quality

The place to buy that needed product at the right price and the best service is Hyperflight without a doubt!!
Keep up the good work.

bought these for flaps and ailerons and find them to be precise and more than suitable. very easy to blow the budget when buying servos i went for a more budget focus option from the servos recommended for the orion but have no regrets and would buy again. have to say every product i have bought from hyperflight has been quality. the rated torque is very high compared to similar small servos and having wide voltage is a bonus for future use

bought the spinner and folding props to with the orion and they go together really well. highest quality have to say. may not be the cheapest but they look and feel the part. well worth buying. recommended.

been looking at the orion for a while now and decided to take the plunge. well impressed with the quality. ideal for light sloping and flat field. easy to put together. the built in threads for the control horns were a lot easier than on a shadow so well done to nan for that. the tail plane and fin connection is simple but effective. quality of plane is excellent.

don’t look elsewhere for push rods. these are good quality.

these servos are great value and are performing well will buy again.

this ESC is so neat and compact and much lighter than normal ones. would recommend for difficult installations. no issues so far in use.

The place to buy that needed product at the right price and the best service is Hyperflight without a doubt!!
Keep up the good work.

Model is wonderful!

Excellent product, and like all from hyperflight, delivered in a timely and efficient manner.

Ordered Sunday delivered Tues brilliant, and worked straight out of the box....

I picked up 4 of these little metal geared servos for a new DLG I've been building. They are smaller, and about half the price, of a Kst-06, so that makes installation in a small nose much easier. They seem to center very well, and are capable of running on my 2S Lipo. I will be using this servo in my next build.

My first impression was the Encanto might turn out heavier than the 480 gm advertised as the main wing ribs are cut from 3mm balsa and 3mm liteply and the sub-ribs although from 2mm balsa come in pairs. The fuselage sides and bulkheads are also from 3mm lite ply and the tail boom is at least 10cm longer than most RES kits models. The actual flying weight of the model was 10gms below target. The kit is designed for 'cased' out-runner motors as there is no clearance for standard out runner motor cables. I fitted an X-Power F2307/14 but a Dualsky XM2523 is shown on the plan. The fuselage profile suits 25mm spinners. The laser-cut parts were a perfect fit. The kit comes with all the necessary accessories such as magnets and kevlar thread for binding the carbon spars at the joints As I wanted to cover the model in transparent film I spent deal of time sanding off the laser burns where they are exposed.

The model is unusual in having a dual carbon joiners (I've since learnt the Andreas has the same arrangement) but this has the benefit of having wing retainer magnets that actually pull the wings onto the fuselage. I don't know of another RES kit where the magnets retain the wings as well as these do. The rudder/elevator servos fit under the wing with a separate hatch leaving plenty of space for batteries RX and ESC behind the motor. I swapped out the supplied white plastic tube and 0.7mm wire push rods for the HyperFlight etched PTFE tube and 0.5mm wire to save weight. The spoilers deserve a mention with their multiple holes to ease landing control. Unfortunately these were discarded by the owner/pilot as not being in keeping with a smooth upper wing surface. 2/3 size plain spoiler plates were used which do an excellent job to control descent with little trim change. Note: there is only space for 7mm thick servos in the spoiler bay unless you modify the mounting.

The flight characteristics deserve special mention as despite its relatively low dihedral it has a very flat turn and this really shows in thermals. The X-power motor has a brisk climb rate on 2S lipos and easily reaches the F5L launch height in time. Using only 2S cells kept the ready to fly weight at 472gms. I have no hesitation is recommending the Encanto and will be building another shortly for myself. P.S. I have no experience of flying with Ballast (supplied by HyperFlight ) but I incorporated the 3D printed ballast boxes in the wing which make the addition of weight very easy.

Since writing the above. I have built another Encanto for myself. I used CHA DS06 servos for the spoilers and lowered the servo plate by 0.5mm to ensure they would fit. I fitted magnets to the servo arms and embed a metal strip in the spoiler blade for the magnet to act upon. This ensures the spoiler follows the servo arm and keeps it closed when not in use. The supplied multi hole spoiler blades were used which meant covering was a little tedious and I had to make a special tool from 10mm dia brass tube to cut the Oracover holes accurately. The effort paid off in flight as the spoilers are less aggressive and easier to trim. This is a very elegant design with excellent performance.

Fantastic service, arrived with in 24hrs.
Great servo to replace the one I damaged

I had high hopes for this, but unless you fly in the Arctic or only at night this 3d print will last 30 seconds in sunlight, I sat the glider on the covered bench at the RC field, and before I retrieve all my flying gear from my truck the pod was leaning over 20 degrees as it melted....................waste of money

Try to use these as much as possible good sinner

Not a lot to say about this fits nice and of course sevice good as usual

Nice push rods good quality but def need support all the way if possible to prevent slop

Nice and strong good quality and service as usual

These are now my “go to” esc. The big pluses for me are the brake-on default and nice size pads for soldering motors direct. Perfect for F5k!

Started to kit out the fuz well mane very tight time must be taken to fit servos properly

Perfect condition and when i do fit it it will fit perfect manyb thanks

Easy to order the correct propellers and arrived in good time. Thanks