While not the perfect model for everyone, our products offer an unrivalled blend of performance and practicality.  This Owner's Gallery - consisting of customer submitted photos - is a testament to our legendary reliability and toughness, backed by our commitment to your satisfaction.

 

 

With the gentle mists of Wales as a backdrop, Robert Bush writes, "Smooth, stable, predictable, quick enough, and auto's great. All the money I've wasted on expensive models that turned out to be disappointing in one way, or another, and a Pantera turns out to be just about what I've been looking for all along . . . and not even fantastic for the money, just fantastic!!"

 

 

"The grin says it all", explains Thomas Burgess of Saint Petersburg, FL when he sent this photo of himself kneeling by his Pantera 50 and then goes on to say, "What a great flying helicopter!"

 

 

Nakia James chose the Funkey-brand Hughes 500 fuselage to transform his Pantera 50 because, as he explains, "The mechanics are so versatile I can upgrade the engine later to a big block OS70 for a better power-to-weight ratio.  Also, I like the fact there's a place to mount a needle-valve control servo molded right into the side frame because it makes adjusting the fuel mixture in the air easy."  She looks sweet Nakia, good job!

 

 

 

When he's off duty as Chief Engineer aboard the private motor yatch Northern Light (inset), Maurice Blier flies his Tiger 50.  "I selected her because I appreciate fine quality machinery." he explains, and goes on to say, "My Tiger 50 is quite the world traveler too.  I've had her in many parts of the world like Capri, Positano, and Sarento in the Mediteranean as well as all over the Carribean."  He also says, "I fly her all the time because she's fun, draws attention, and is both smooth and easy to handle."   We couldn't say it any better Maurice!

 

 

Wearing his trademark grin, Billy Hemple of Tucson, AZ is best known for his giant scale activities.  "Believe it or not, I fly model helicopters to keep sharp with the big birds!" he says, and continues with, "I prefer the Pantera 50 because it's precise in the air - more like an airplane actually - because unlike some others I've flown, the Pantera doesn't zoom or tuck in high speed flight, it just tracks true.  Billy goes on to explain, "My family owns the Hobby Barn so I can fly any model on the market, but I picked the Pantera because I didn't want a complex and time consuming to repair and maintain carbon fiber heli.  To be blunt, I need to devote nearly all my time to my business, so for me, the Pantera's rugged engineering-plastic construction is something of a no brainer.  After looking over the field, and flying everything available, the Pantera stood head and shoulders above the rest in my eyes because of its very simple design and honest flying characteristics."

 

 

Standing behind the counter at Spratt's Trading Post, Thomas Spence of Hillsdale, MI poses with his Pantera 50.  An enthusiastic modeler, Thomas has even made some custom aluminum parts for his Pantera to include a great looking hex-design head button for the optional PDR0045 aluminum rotor head block.  Presently, he's trying to figure out how to stuff either a .91 four-stroke, or a gas burner engine into his Pantera . . . and knowing him, he'll succeed too because he doesn't know the meaning of the word quit!

 

 

Whether it's scuba diving, piloting his CAP 10L acrobatic aircraft, or thrashing the sky with a Pantera at his local flying field, Bill Massy holds nothing back. An engineer by vocation, and a tinkerer by nature, Bill's a go-to guy. In fact, his Pantera with the BBC (foreground) is one of (if not the very first) in a handful of BBC prototypes to escape captivity before production!

 

 

Kneeling behind his Pantera 50 with a full tank of fuel in preparation of another flight, Nick Crego of Ankeny, IA poses with quiet pride as behind him, a John Deere harvester at work in the business of feeding the nation, goes at it.  What a beautiful flying site!  Pleased with his model, Nick posted this online, "Went out today to fly the Pantera, first time with the governor on, and the stock paddles. Wow! Maybe I'm a wimp, but it's too fast on cyclics. It'll roll and flip a couple of times a second, and loops can be so tight that they are within the heli's length. I was seriously bogging it down because I'm not used to the responsiveness, so my timings are behind. Compared to any other heli I've flown, Evos, Raptors, Furys, Predators, all tuned to be as fast as I could get them, this is faster. The Fury is close with the MA whites, but still not as fast."