Thorpe King of Drones(TM)
Pick a drone - any drone!
Pick a drone - any drone!
Pick a drone - any drone!
Thorpe King of Drones(TM)
You can "Own the Skies with Thorpe King of Drones(TM) TODAY. Just pick which of these exciting drone airframes as kits or ready to fly vehicles and you will be in the air in no time! We happily provide our customers one or a whole squadron of vehicles - no order is too small or too large for our capable, experienced craftsmen to help you achieve your goals and objectives.
Reaper/Predator
Pick a drone - any drone!
Pick a drone - any drone!
“Starter” Kit MAP $675 + $100 S&H
This kit allows the experienced building customer to skin the wings and tail fins in any material they prefer from composite to obeche and Mylar! Composite fuselage with ply deck, firewall and frames with composite chin fairing, and aluminum landing gear.
"Quick Build” Kit MAP $1000 + $100 S&H
Aluminum skinned foam cored wings and tail fins with spar tube assembled. Composite fuselage with firewall and frames glassed in place, ply deck and composite chin fairing, and aluminum landing gear in a quick build kit.
Shadow Half Scale
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Pioneer Half Scale
"Starter” Kit MAP $675 + $100 S&H
This kit allows the experienced building customer to skin the wings and tail fins in any material they prefer from composite to obeche and Mylar! Composite fuselage with ply firewall, frames, tailbooms and aluminum landing gear.
Pioneer Half Scale
P3000 Canard Biplane
Pioneer Half Scale
"Starter” Kit MAP $675 + $100 S&H
This kit allows the experienced building customer to skin the wings and tail fins in any material they prefer from composite to obeche and Mylar! Composite fuselage with ply firewall, frames, tailbooms and aluminum landing gear.
P3000 Canard Biplane
P3000 Canard Biplane
P3000 Canard Biplane
"Starter” Kit MAP $900 + $150 S&H
The P3000 can be built as a single pusher or as a centerline thrust twin as shown here. This kit allows the experienced building customer to skin the wings and canard in any material they prefer from composite to obeche and Mylar! Composite fuselage, ply firewall, frames and interplanar strut with aluminum landing gear.
P10C "Flying Box"
P3000 Canard Biplane
P3000 Canard Biplane
“Starter” Kit MAP $2500 + $100
This kit allows the experienced building customer to make a very capable ALUMINUM fuselage aircraft assembled by using a simple hand drill and pop rivet tool; with foam cores for the wings and tail fins that can be covered by the customer in any material they prefer from composite to obeche and Mylar! Kit comes with aluminum panels sheared to size, longerons, tailboom and tailfin mounting angles and tail struts with aluminum landing gear
An RC Legacy since 1950
Antonio J. Mendoza
From a plain box... a Starhawk
Starhawk ARFs 1980s - 1990s
A visionary RC designer and modeler, Tony Mendoza's passion for aviation was inspired by American warplanes clearing the skies of Imperial Japanese aircraft - liberating his beloved Filipino homeland.
Starhawk ARFs 1980s - 1990s
From a plain box... a Starhawk
Starhawk ARFs 1980s - 1990s
While much of the RC industry had gone plastic, Tony insisted on using only common materials that RC modelers could easily repair: balsa, foam cored and sheeted wings, silkspan and painted finish - despite a production line making Starhawks in quantity
From a plain box... a Starhawk
From a plain box... a Starhawk
From a plain box... a Starhawk
Starhawks came out of their plain box with the wing in ONE piece - no joining by the customer was required even on .40 and .60 sized models like this 54" wingspan Starhawk High Wing.
Starhawk Biplane
Good looking airplanes
From a plain box... a Starhawk
A Starhawk Biplane right out of its plain box - not much to do but for engine, receiver and servos to install!
Just Minutes Later...
Good looking airplanes
Good looking airplanes
The same Starhawk Biplane just minutes later assembled on a table top - the slots and notching already done at the factory even for the interplanar struts!
Good looking airplanes
Good looking airplanes
Good looking airplanes
Starhawk customers prided themselves on the aesthetic, clean lines for the eight different Starhawk models that went into serial production from Tony's design board.