Le Fish & Spindrift Plans
“I’ve come to realize that what I want is a four channel plane (flaperons/elevator/rudder) that will fly in lift similar to a Weasel and can take the same kind of abuse.”
– Original Le Fish build thread
NOTE: A proper DXF/DWG plan (for CNC construction) and a PDF plan (for printing) for the Le Fish will be made available very soon. In the meantime, feel free to use the original drawings below as your guide.
Also, make sure to check out the How to build a Swiss Fish thread on RCGroups if you are interested in building the lightweight (16oz / 470g) version of Le Fish.
Original Le Fish plan:
Original Spindrift plan:
My designs have been influenced strongly from what I’d learned in flying my beloved Aeromod Voltij and studying open source plans and photos of the MiniToons v1 on EPP Concept, as well as BPLR’s Madslide, experience with scale models of the MDM-1 Fox and S-1 Swift, and lastly the Alula forward swept flying wing kitted by my good friend Michael Richter of Dream-Flight.
The Le Fish plan was intended as a first step towards my stated goal above, to create a lightweight EPP aerobatics glider that would allow me to take what I love about flying a Weasel and go even further. The resulting commercial success of the kit offered by Leading Edge Gliders has been a wonderful thing to see develop and I’m so glad to have been able to give something back to the hobby and community that I love so deeply.
In that same spirit of experimentation and shared journey, I encourage anyone and everyone to learn what they can from these designs, and make them better! They are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. You are free to copy, adapt, and make commercial use of these designs provided that you adhere to the following requirements:
1) Attribution — You must provide attribution to Steve “Surfimp” Lange for all copies, adaptations and commercial uses of these designs. This attribution must not indicate that I in any way endorse you or your use of my designs.
2) Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.
Happy building and flying!
Steve “Surfimp” Lange
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