Lacey M8 1/2
THIS DESIGN started life as a 14-gram Bostonian semiscale Lacey M-10. The idea for the metamorphosis came when "cousin" Tom Schmitt, who was still with HiLine, Ltd. at the time, told me that the motor used in HiLine's Mini-6 unit was available without the gearing. (The HiLine motor is now available as the Micro-4.) Don Srull, Tom said, had built and flown several small models successfully using this little gem of a motor and two 50-mAh batteries, so that the entire power train weighed only 20 grams.
