Welcome to Pibros!

Pibros is a cheap simple foamie for fun/combat slope soaring, by Marcel Guwang. Hundreds have been built from these pages. Here you will find:

  • Building instructions in English
  • Balsa, i/c powered and electric variants
  • Feedback from fellow builders

A Brace of Pibri

 

Slope racing pilot Richard Frawley writes:

"I had my first introduction to the Pibros in March of 1997 at the Spanish F3F at Arilla. The French F3F team brought five of these delightful craft to the event.

What is great about the Pibros is that there is no fear about handing the sticks to another pilot. There is little chance that irreparable damage can be sustained.

As far as flight performance goes, I wasn’t disappointed. The hardest part was handing back the controls. I was hooked, I wanted one and I wanted one now!"

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How to build your Pibros

The instructions are provided as a set of pages which you can select from the list on the left.

To print a page, display the page then:

  • In Microsoft Internet Explorer, right click in the righthand frame and select Print.
  • In Netscape, click in frame and select Print Frame from the File menu.

Acknowledgements

Preface
Richard Frawley
English instructions
Marcel Guwang (section 1) Richard Frawley (sections 2 - 6)
Photos
Marcel Guwang, Steve Cooper
Other contributors
Nick Wierda, Traugott Emrich, Matias Rajkay
Page management
Mike Shellim

Marcel, thank you for a great design and for permission to reproduce it!

Updated 09 December, 2003
Please do not copy material to a web-site or magazine, without permission from Marcel Guwang or Mike Shellim.