Neutrino F5J (Strong) Electric Sailplane RCGroups Review 

It's been a while since I have flown a sailplane. This brought back great memories. Love your enthusiasm. Thank for making this review, and happy landings.

Beautiful glider. The turn is so tight and precise.

She's a beauty! Congrats on your new plane!!!

That glider is crazy cool!!! I like how it breaks down for travel👍👍👍 Awesome video👍👍👍👊

Thanks for sharing Jason really looks like a dream to fly 🤜Thermallicious🤛

OK now I’m really excited just picked one up! Now I’m very happy to hear that it flies like an F3K and now I can’t wait to get it in the air!! thanks awesome review!

That thing is so sick! Great review!

What a beautiful bird!

Very nice !!

Wow, just Wow. I haven't flown comp since about 78-79 when I got a 2nd place at the LSF nats in Australia. Life changed and the tech and expense went ridiculously nuts after that. I was deep into scratch building my own designs for about $100 and continued to fly recreationally. Got to the point that most days I could put a thermal ship up and only bring it down when I wanted or when my neck got sore. In those days I was building gliders to about the same wing loading (5 oz/ft^2) and A/R round 13 or so. An A/R optimization program I wrote based on Martin Simmons book suggested the best duration in dead air could be obtained from an A/R around 10 or so depending on section L/D characteristics, but this was a slow floater, only practical in almost zero wind. Higher A/R increased wing loading and speed. A flatter glide yes but lost height faster due to increased speed at higher wing loading. Still this was advantageous because you need to get upwind to pickup a thermal, follow it downwind while gaining height to then hunt upwind to the next thermal. So minimum sink isn't everything. The program also suggested that in theory, glide ratio just keeps improving the higher you go with A/R, to a ridiculously impractical extent. So basically I just ended up with the conclusion that the AR and wing load determine the wind speed and thermal density that the design is optimal for. In other words, the optimal design depends on the conditions on the day of comp. You can't predict that for any one comp day, so there remained an unresolved question as to optimum A/R. So that's an outline of my journey in RC sailplane. From those days to seeing the specs on this glider with almost 20:1 AR combined with a wing loading just under 5 oz/ft^2 is to me just absolutely startling and amazing, as is the price tag by the way. It's a big span to turn on a dime like that without stalling in inboard tip, quite an achievement. I did have models that could do it but employed boundary layer transition control to retain attached flow at low speed and high CL. This ship doesn't appear to have such devices. I assume that is testament to the accuracy of mold manufacture these days. It;s a good ship, I'm much impressed!

Enjoy your awesome toy. You did a terrific job on the video.

Awesome.

Very nice handling

WOW! I love it

Its really nice to have reviews from other competion pilots instead of casual flyers. dont get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with hobby flying these things but i am an F3K pilot myself and its nice to hear kinda of what competion pilots want to hear

Beneficial vid for sure!

Very smart. Very clever.

Great

🦋 Nice 💙

HERMOSO PLANEADOR

Soon they become solar and great to buy :)

Beautiful aircraft. Solar cell arrays on the wings would seem intuitive.

How much is the whole package?

So you thought it was OK then? ;o)

I well stick to my $174 Radian, fly's just as well and thermals with the best of them..

Damn, I can't even afford a 1M.. That's crazy.

A camera would be nice on it

Let me know when you want to sell it?

I SEE LESS AND LESS PEOPLE DOING THIS WHY ? MOST PEOPLE ARE CRAZY FOR POWER HUNGRY DRONES

$1900, and you STILL need to buy more parts to complete? Yeah....no thanks.