Arron Bates

Arron Bates started the ‘honey badger’ project in 2012, aiming to add extra manoeuvrability to already ridiculously manoeuvrable large scale 3DXA planes such as the 87” 3DHS Extra 300sc. Most importantly, he wanted even more yaw authority, he started by adding ‘asymmetric air brakes’ at the wingtips of the plane that could be independently operated.

In 2015 he released the ‘super honey badger’ to the world, in this version, he ditched the airbrakes and instead added the tail rotor from a 700-size helicopter to the tail of the plane to aid (or completely overpower) the rudder. This gave amazing results.

It was exactly what I like, the project wasn’t very well refined, but it was an amazing proof of concept for the kind of crazy manoeuvres that could be pulled off by a plane that had extreme amounts of yaw authority.

Hopefully he will release an updated version in the near future.