Welcome to Bill Hempel’s Team Edge.
Home of the World’s Largest ARF’s.
Latest News: MAY
We will be CLOSED from May 16th though May 21st as we will be attending the 2012 Joe Nall event. We will be open again for business on the 22nd of May, thank you.
To place an order, send me an email with your name and address, I will generate an invoice and get a shipping quote for you ASAP. Order now while supply is good.
Information and pictures for these new ARF’s will be up shortly. Here’s the pricing;
25% Decathlon $550.00 100” Wing span
25% L-4 Grasshopper $550.00 105” Wing span
40% L-4 Grasshopper $1850.00 168” Wing span
46% Piper PA-25 Pawnee $2495.00 198” Wing span
Thank you for visiting Bill Hempel’s ‘Team Edge’. If you have any questions or would like to place an order, simply send me an email HERE, include your name/address and phone number.
Thank you for visiting.
Bill Hempel.
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50% BD-5 Turbine
Our first turbine model to our line up. The 50% BD-5 is a very unique airplane with a lot of history behind it. This smallest Jet in the world became famous for many reasons including the James Bond 007 movie where a real BD-5 flew through an open hanger. This 50% model features a fiberglass fuselage, foam wings and tail. C/F wing tubes and a strong aluminum stab tube. This model comes painted and covered with Ultracote covering. Scheme: ‘Freedom’ (red/white/blue as shown)
Engine: P-140
Wing Span: 8.5’ (102”)
Length: 6.5’ (78”)
Weight: 30 lbs.
$1700.00 Airframe only
$3200.00 Price includes: Robart retracts/wheel/brakes/struts/air tank/lines/valve, brake valve, fuel tank and stainless steel exhaust cone.
(taking orders now)
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60% Super Cub
(with Flaps)
Engine:3W275
Wing Span: 21 feet (252”)
Length: 14 feet (168”)
Weight: 100 pounds
Servos: 20-22
Color: White with Red trim
Price $3200.00
(more arriving in next container: order NOW to reserve yours)
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60% L-4 Grasshopper
(no Flaps)
This is quite possible the biggest ARF in the WORLD. At 21’ (252”) wing span this airplane will dwarf anything you park next to on the RC field! The flying weight of this monster is right at 115 pounds so we are well within the AMA’s weight limit and is easily certified. With the 3W motor, this airplane will be off the ground in as little as 10’ distance and climbing at a 60degree angle. What a great flying machine!
Engine: 3W-275
Wing Span: 21 feet (252”)
Length: 14 feet (168”)
Weight: 115 pounds
Servos: 16-20
Color: Green-Military scheme
Price $3200.00
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40% L-4 Grasshopper
This is the military version of the popular J-3 Cub. This new model has all the rear glass just like the real version. The popular Green and Grey scheme will make this airplane look great on any day of flying. Take this airplane to your favorite war bird fly-in and have a blast or just fun fly on any great weather day!
Engine: 100-120cc
Wing Span: 14 feet (168”)
Length: 9’ 10” feet (118”)
Weight: 40 pounds
Servos: 11-14
Color: Green-Grey Military scheme
Price $1850.00
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30cc-50cc Clipped Wing Cub
The new Bill Hempel’s 50cc Clipped Wing Cub is complete and is a FANTASTIC performer. Here are the specifications on this new airplane.
This 25% scale Clipped Wing Cub is sold as an ARF and can be ready to fly in just a few days’ work. This airplane is covered in Oracover for a bright clean finish that really shines! Removable 2-piece wing makes transportation easy and the wing struts can be folded down with the removal of a 2 screws. This is plywood and balsa constructed model with a flying weight of15.5 with a 50cc motor. Outstanding performance is easily achievable.
Price is only $550.00.
Order NOW
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SNS-7 Hiperbipe
This unique airplane will offer the most outrageous free styling & precision flight ever! The air foiled fuselage offers some very unique flight characteristics that will be unbelievable.
100cc: 87” Wing Span. Price $1,000.00
150cc: 97” Wing Span Price $1,500.00
ORDER NOW
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50% KA-6 Glider
This is the monster of them all! The 7.5 meter (295”) 24.5 feet, WOW! This new glider has got to be the biggest ARF on the market! The KA-6 comes fully painted and covered and ready for radio installation. The airplane is finished in 2 schemes: all White or Red/White color scheme. The airplane has a built up wing with (4) C/F wing tubes that disassembles into (4) separate wing panels to make transportation simple. The wing also includes (4) spoilers 2 on top and 2 on the bottom just like the real airplane. This makes descending a snap without the build-up of excessive speeds. The airplane comes with the 8” wheel and all control surfaces pre-installed. No glue required, simply install your equipment and go fly!
Price $2,100.00
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Super Decathlon
Bill Hempel’s Super Decathlon is a great new Giant Scale ARF to hit the market. This Super Decathlon has a fully symmetrical air foiled wing profile to really increase the aerobatic capabilities, especially while inverted. Outside loops and snap rolls are easily done. Plastic molded window, landing gear, wheels and opening doors are standard items in this ARF.
We offer this new airplane in two sizes.
The 38% Decathlon is designed for the 100cc-120cc engine while the 56% Decathlon is designed specifically for the 3W-275. Click to read more information and specifications on these 2 great airplanes.
Build Thread HERE!
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The J-3 Cub
The Piper J-3 Cub is a small, simple, light aircraft that was built between 1937 and 1947 by Piper Aircraft. With tandem (fore and aft) seating, it was intended for flight training but became one of the most popular and best-known light aircraft of all time. An icon of the era, the J-3 Cub has long been loved by pilots and non-pilots alike, with thousands still in use today. Piper sold 19,073 J-3s between 1938 and 1947. Now you can own a piece of history with Bill Hempel’s HUGE J-3 Cubs. Bill offers 3 different sizes of Cubs in 40%, 50% and 60% scale. Click here to make your choice!
40% Super Cub
Need that perfect towing machine for your glider? Here is your plane; the 40% Super Cub. This Super Cub has large flaps and the standard pressure type cowling just like the real Super Cub. Designed for the 100cc engine market, provisions for canisters are also standard. With a WS of 14' (168”) this airplane will be a great floater and be able to takeoff and land like a STOL aircraft. Fun, Fun!
Price $1850.00
40% Clipped Wing Cub
The 40% Cub has a wing span of 12’ (144”) and is designed for the 100cc engine. This is a great aerobatic performing airplane that is capable of almost anything, including TR’s. No AMA waiver needed. Includes landing gear, tail wheel, hardware, C/F wing tubes and 8.25” Cub wheels.
Price $1850.00
50% Clipped Wing Cub
The BH Series 50% Clipped Wing Cub is designed for all of you out there that want to get back to the type of flying that was just pure fun! Why a clipped wing? The real clipped wing Cub was designed to improve the aerobatic capabilities, the same holds true for the RC version. Using a 150cc motor, the 50% Clipped wing is capable of performing rolls, loops, inverted flight and snap rolls. With a larger engine (210cc) you will be able to obtain unlimited vertical performance and even torque roll. Regardless of the engine choice, the 50% Clipped Wing Cub will offer you the most fun you have had flying RC’s anywhere, guaranteed to make you smile while flying. The huge 15’ (180”) wing span will have you taking off in less than 15 feet and landing at a super slow pace, add a little wind and the real fun starts. This is truly a magnificent flying airplane.
Price $2495.00
60% Clipped Wing Cub
What can I say? The 60% Cub was designed to be the biggest ARF in the world and still be legal to fly through the AMA experimental category. This monster of an airplane has been known to have spectators fall to the ground in astonishment! The 18’ (216”) wingspan on this clipped wing Cub is HUGE! Designed to fly with the 3W-275 engine and a 37”x 13” propeller, the performance will impress any RC pilot while it performs all of the aerobatics you can think of. Takeoffs in as little as 15 feet are easily performed. Built for aerobatics, this 60% airplane has been designed specifically to be strong and fun. Covered in Ultracote, this plane will look great from the first flight to the 1000th flight!
Price $3200.00
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200cc-275cc Ultimate 20-300
This newly released Ultimate is designed for a 200cc-275cc motor.
The entire Ultimate wing design was made so flying wires would not be needed and assembly times would be fast.
2-lower carbon fiber wing tubes proved all the strength needed with a single C/F tub for the top wing.
The Ultimate was originally designed to be the smallest airframe possible for use with the 3W-275cc motor. I did this so this airframe would have the most available power to weight available for this engine/airplane combination.
Build thread
$2,500.00
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50% Edge 540. Version II
The New Class in Aerobatics.
Well, this well known performer has undergone an extensive change. The 50% Edge 540 has been totally redesigned with performance the #1 goal in mind. The fuselage and wings have been redesigned and look very scale, counter balances both on wing and stab the norm now. Carbon landing gear, spinner and wheel pants will all be standard equipment! Super light weight construction will insure the best possible power to weight for this class airplane.
$2,500.00
Build thread
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50% Extra 260
The 50% Extra 260 has been designed to be the BEST performing 50% aerobatic and freestyle plane in the world. This airplane was designed around the new 3W-275 engine for the best power to weight ratio. With this engine, the Extra 260 will have equal or better performance than a 40% aerobatic plane.
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57% Extra 300L
Another great addition to our line up of the Largest ARF’s in the World in the New 57% Extra 300L. This new airplane is the same size as the Extra 260 (15’ws) above but has been designed for the ZDZ-420cc motor. Hollow core foam wings, C/F wing tube and super lightweight construction makes this airplane a real performer! Pre-purchase is required with a $500.00 deposit, customer choices scheme*. Call for time frame on receiving airplane after order. Video soon! Send me an email for additional pictures!!
Engine: ZDZ-420
Wing Span: 15’ (180”)
Length: 12.91’ (155”)
Weight: 108lbs. with canisters
Price $3,200.00 PRE-ORDER ONLY
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60% Extra 260
The new 60% Extra 260 has a massive wing span of 180” (15 feet) and a length of 155”. The entire airplane has been designed to be strong and light weight. The all plywood and foam sheeted structure has a complete flying weight of 95 pounds with the 3W-342 engine. Kit comes completely finished and covered. PRE-ORDER ONLY
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This IMAC/Freestyle airplane is a ‘must have’ if you are serious about your competitions and want the latest designed airplane to help you win! The Yak 55 has a slightly shorter wing span than other non-Yak planes but this will help increase your roll rate and snaps. The long tail moment will have this plane flying like it is on rails, there is really nothing better than this Yak 55M. All planes include a hardware package, C/F landing gear/wing/stab tubes/ and now a new C/F tail wheel. I have designed this airplane to be the best of the best! Offered in (4) sizes;
50cc: 83” wing span $550.00
Flying weight 17.5 pounds
100cc: 100cc-120cc 103” Wing span $950.00
Flying weight 26.5 pounds
Build thread
150cc: 118” wing span $1400.00
Flying weight of 34.3 pounds! WOW
Build thread
275cc: 141” wing span $2495.00
Flying weight 63 pounds
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Wing Bags are now custom made for ALL Bill Hempel’s airplanes!
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My builders in China are working very hard to get the next few projects released. Here is a look of what’s next:
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65% Fokker DR-1 Tri-plane
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15.3’ Wing Span
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6’ 6” Tall
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Engine: 3W-275 or larger
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The new AMA weight limit of 125 pounds means……… BIGGER AIRPLANES for YOU!
Thank you for visiting.
Home of the World’s Largest ARF’s.
Bill Hempel
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