Roger Lalonde is a shop teacher at the Citadelle French High School in Cornwall Ontario Canada. He likes to keep his students in a high state of alert and interest so that they can learn more, and that is why he chose to build this large Beaver.
There are 12 students which includes 2 girls involved in the project, and what they did to start the project, they went to the Ottawa museum after school to take measurements of the Beaver that they decided to model.
They drew the plans themselves, and got started on the project.
Roger Lalonde would go in the school shop on week-ends to work on the model and the first thing you knew, a bunch of students would join him. He started to hide his truck but they would find it and go in and work on the plane.
That's how dedicated they where!
Some of the specs are:
Wingspan is 16 feet
Weight will be around 80 lbs
Engine is a Quadra 200cc with a 2.72:1 reduction belt drive built by quadra.
Propeller will be a 42" dia. x 25" pitch.
Of course the servo extensions are Fiber Optic.
The students involved with this project are:
Mario Bissonette Nicolas Bornais France Campeau Stephane Dionne
Arthur Forget Cedric Lamarche
Philip Lindsay Benoit Mallet
Tania Nadon Patrick Pilon
Kevin Regnier Michel Therriault
Roger Lalonde (Shop Teacher)