Welcome Glider Guiders and Builders
You have found the home of the Yellow Jacket Competition RC Sailplanes. Sonoran Laser Art is small business that designs and manufactures fine sailplane kits. I perform my own laser cutting which provides the means for quality control, wood selection, and parts cut to my specifications.
Yellow Jacket Models are designed with focus on competition. My view is that competition models must be light, durable, build fast, and have best in class performance or equivalent. All models with the exception of the 1.5M have been flown and tested in competition including F3RES, ALES, F5J, and Thermal Duration. Their modern airfoils and low drag designs have proven to be clear winners with low wing loading and speed. They can be ballasted (weight added) for increased wind. Should a class develop for models <250g we are ready with the 1.5M bungee launch sailplane.
Premium Yellow Jackets glider kits are not like most others. All balsa and ply parts are completely laser cut out and organized in groups related to their specific part. The laser kerf is offset appropriately to provide a nice fit. This means there is no cutting parts from trees, no cutting parts from wood stock, and no cutting off building tabs. This requires more time to prepare each kit because each parts is handled and inspected as they are organized. If you have not experienced this before you will be very pleased in comparison with the ease of build and less opportunity to damage a part.
Sonoran Laser Art is an approved dealer for both CLM Pro, Sig Manufacturing and Bud Nosen.
All wood is specified for strength and weight of the intended part. The quality of the wood is as good as it gets. All products offered by Sig are available at reasonable prices. Should you need a Sig product not shown please contact me for pricing.
Your credit card payment will not be processed until the order is complete. You can use your credit card through PayPal Express by selecting the Yellow PayPal Express button to check out. PayPal is convenient and does provide added benefits and protection for the customer.
Shipping cost will be verified prior to billing. This is mostly needed when additional items are added like an extra fuse or wing kit and combined in one box. The online calculator generally shows shipping weights of individual items so when combining it could be off. I will make sure its correct before you are charged.
At this time I offer shipping to the U.S.A. Shipping Internationally has been challenging due to the Covid 19 pandemic.
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If you have questions or comments please submit them through the website. If its more urgent you can email sonoranlaserart@cox.net where I monitor them on my phone and iPad.
If you have requests for additional building tips please submit those via the contact page here.
I would like to add photos of your completed sailplanes and any comments have to the Gallery. Those can be sent directly to sonoranlaserart@cox.net
Thank you
Corky
