last updated on 12/24/2006 (What's New)

YourZagi was created to help beginners like myself build a Zagi™, fly it, modify and fix it in the unlikely event that it ever needs repair.  During my first attempt at building a Zagi™ I became frustrated at the lack of a single reference site that explained everything, or even one that had a large collection of links to follow.  Maybe I simply did not know where to go.

So what is a Zagi™ you ask? The Zagi™ is an indestructible flying machine designed and sold by the dynamic duo of Jerry and Joe Teisan at Trick R/C.  It's sole purpose in life is to achieve maximum flight characteristics coupled with extreme heart pounding fun.  Several variations of the Zagi™ exist, from the pure thermal airframes to the high-performance electric models.  These easy to build, all foam kits can be found at their Trick R/C company page.  While you are at Trick R/C you can order one (or two), grab some spare parts or catch a bit of the Zagi history complete with  photographs.

This site is intended as a collection of links, tips, tricks and building modifications about Zagi™ airframes and flying wings in general.  Rather than run another Forums type of bulletin board system, I highly recommend that individuals point their browser to the www.rcgroups.com discussion groups.  Over 7000 individuals contribute to that pool of knowledge about electric flight.  This web site was inspired by RCGroups  as I wanted to return to the RC community at least a small fraction of what I have received by being a member.

I am constantly amazed at how many individuals, with little or no formal aeronautical or engineering background can get so turned on by this thing that they become, whether they know it or not, pseudo-experts on flight dynamics, wing loadings,  Bernoulli's equations, partial pressures, airfoil design, air viscosity, thrust, prop pitch, lift coefficients, prop speed, etc etc etc.  And obviously it is not just about the Zagi, it is about anything that flies and if it does not fly then the question that is always asked is, "how can I make it fly?"  Be it a single piece of cardboard or a CAD designed airfoil.

So I can try to blame these guys and gals listed below for an amazing amount of time spent on this and the marital stress induced because of it; simply because they do what they do so well.

This site is not affiliated with and does not receive any financial revenue from a commercial venture. 

As a general rule, all references will be through links to the original pages at other sites.  Multitudes of RC flyers have created excellent reference pages that can be found under the links page.  I respect the time it took to generate those pages and I hope you will respect mine.