Avios/Hobby King 1600mm C-130 Hercules

[Ole-Timer]

Cool bird
Bummer it’s so small
Wont even scale up to the B-17 or B-24
How typical

:Confused:

Our local wing’s birds have been flying out to be retired after decades of service.
Got to witness a buzz job up our river valley two weeks ago, wish I knew he was coming!

[quitcherbitchen]

From Stephen
"There is some footage coming in the next few days!! They are currently in production. More news to come, definitely you will not be waiting a year for the C-130. We shall not be making that mistake again."

And neither will I buy an Avios again. And it is more like two years not one.

[DonRhone]

I am very impressed with seeing HK bring forward a model like this. However, I will wait until there has been reviews of the SOON to be released Avios Spitfire.

If that plane gets good reviews then I will be interested in the Avios C130.

I gave up waiting for the HK Avios Spitfire myself and purchased the Flightline 1600 version instead. Do not need, nor want any more Spitfires for the time being, but the C130 I would think about. Looks to be grass friendly as well, another plus.

But will wait for the Avios reviews first,

[rifleman_btx]

So far so good, still penciled in on my go list. But HK beware, it can just as easily fall off the list if it looks like crap!

[crxmanpat]

Hopefully Avios has learned their lesson with the recent releases. I also saw a post on FB that the foam is much denser than that of previous planes. I will most likely pre-order it as soon as it becomes available.

[dkalwishky]

As much as I hate HobbyKing I've read good things about Avios planes so I'm interested in this one.

[TiredIronGRB]

I'm going to wait.

[dahawk]

Subscribed

[borntoolate]

Interesting. I will wait and watch, having been burned by the bf109 fiasco.

[crxmanpat]

I plan to get one and convert it to an EC-130H Compass Call on which I was a crew member back in 89-91. Back then they were at Davis-Monthan in Tucson (where I first trained on it), and at Sembach Air Base in Germany. I'm going to do the Sembach version as that was where my duty station was.

[crxmanpat]

EDIT - HK says the wingspan is 1600mm, not 1800mm as originally stated.

So HK just announced that they are coming out with an Avios C-130 very soon. No word on pricing or availability, but it will come in 2 schemes; Fat Albert and Grey. The Grey version is supposed to have decal sets for about 8 different air forces. Here are some details from the official Hobby King announcement yesterday:

AVIOS C-130 Specs

Ian from Hobbyking flew the C-130 at PEMAC shortly after the big reveal and its fair to say the model flew very well from a grass strip. Ian must have flown the model half a dozen times, with ease and authority and was happy to take the model around and answer questions. AVIOS clearly went all in on this model and they should be very proud of the outcome. I cannot wait for this model and short of giving the first born I’d like to know what It would cost to pry one out of their hands.

First Impressions

It is hard to believe this is a foam RC plane and not a Tamiya plastic model kit. This model clearly heralds in a new era for AVIOS and reaffirms their commitment unique offerings that wow the market. I must say, I’m fairly wowed (Not sure if wowed is a word but it is now).

Model Features:

• Scale cockpit
• Fowler flaps
• Split flaps
• Ailerons
• Elevator
• Rudder
• Working tail door
• Scale retracts
• Scale props
• Interior lighting

A Facebook comment from Stephen, Brand Manager for the Avios line:

"There is some footage coming in the next few days!! They are currently in production. More news to come, definitely you will not be waiting a year for the C-130. We shall not be making that mistake again."


Official announcement from Hobby King:

https://hobbyking.com/en_us/news/avios-c-130

Some pics: