Pilot: Tom Richards
Plane:RAF BE2e British "Flying Coffin" - a stable airplane for photo recon was slow and vulnerable to enemy fighters. History of the plane, from www.TheVintageAviator.com.

Pilot:Tom Richards
Plane: This Royal Aircraft Factory plane was a 2-seat Biplane that took heavy losses from enemy gunfire.

Pilot: Tom Richards
Plane:Pilots in the RAF BE2e did not have parachutes. It was thought the pilots would bail out instead of trying to complete missions.

Pilot: Tom Richards
Plane:Royal Aircraft Factory BE2e scratch build from scaled plans.

Pilot: Steve Black
Plane: Turnigy Plush - 60A ESC with battery and motor leads removed. W at float fly got water inside the shrink tube around the ESC circuit board. Some Corrosion X had been sprayed inside.

Pilot: Steve Black
Plane: Turnigy Plush - 60A ESC with shrink tube removed, the heat sink and thermal interface material (TIM) is exposed.

Pilot: Steve Black
Plane: Turnigy Plush - 60A ESC with heatsink, thermal interface material (TIM), and circuit board with heat spreaders atop the solid state power elements are exposed.

Pilot: Steve Black
Plane: Turnigy Plush - 60A ESC on the circuit board side, the plastic shield is shown. Not much chance the Corrosion X has penetrated very well to prevent short circuits on either side of the circuit board.

Pilot: Steve Black
Plane: Turnigy Plush - 60A ESC electrical components are expsed when the plalstic shield is removed.