Welcome, dear visitor or old friend. This is James “Doc” Hammond, owner and designer of Aeroic Aerospace Composites. Since you have visited our website, I am guessing that you might be interested in Aeroic products. Well, I hope so!

So, what does Aeroic offer that I think makes us stand out from many others?

Lay-up Choices: Every Aeroic model comes with (S) standard 100% single-carbon wing, and carbon tissue-surface laminated tail planes! Light and SS (double-carbon) versions are available and built to order.

No Balsa: All sandwich skin surfaces use high-grade aerospace foam in the laminate. This results in a finish that is not only nicer but also yields a stronger, more durable structure.

Re-engineered Models: 100% of the current Aeroic line presented here are recently re-designed and re-tooled with all new molds. As many of you know, I fired my previous manufacturer and, unfortunately, lost all my molds in the process. I took time to redesign and re-engineer all of them; hence, the new Aeroic models are very different from the originals. This can be seen by better fit and finish, servos now mounted in the fins of the airframes, making installation much easier, and a variety of small fitting problems that are now entirely eliminated. However, with well-thought-out modifications, they still fly just as well or sometimes better.

Sine Wave Spar: The Aeroic sine wave spar gives the most strength in tension and fantastic performance in torsion at half, or less than half the weight of a of a normal box spar. Only Aeroic has this technical innovation. Completeness: The Aeroic accessory package is really complete and even includes the pre-soldered wiring harness. As Red says, it can be a bit frustrating to buy your model, unpack it, and then start to list the other things that you ALSO have to buy to finish the model. Every small part needed to finish the model is supplied. Few, if any, companies supply the entire parts package that will be needed to complete the model.

Materials: At Aeroic, we use the best of the best. Carbon is from Japan, resin is from France, and other fabrics are from the very best manufacturers. Spars and some other reinforcement use UHM carbon at 1,000 Psi and above. This is the best you can get for any application. Many competition model aircraft manufacturers do not use the level of materials that you get as standard from Aeroic.

Fit and Finish: Each Aeroic model is trial assembled and polished at the factory before carefully packed for export. This ensures that all the parts fit very well, and you get that nice, super-shiny model that you have been dreaming of. If not “European Standard,” we are damn close.

Design: I’m not sure what other designers do, but I design my models by deciding the work they will have to do, such as Aerobatics or maybe Alpine Soaring. Then, I collect all the desirable parameters and latest innovations that I think will be needed to make a first-class model in that genre. After that’s done, and only after that, I endeavor to make the plane nice-looking.

Performance: I have designed and sold many model aircraft. Of all the models I have sold, I have never received any bad comments about their flying performance. I’m not afraid to try new things or test new theories. I do my very best to design models that will fly as fast and well as you can fly them and for the enjoyment of guys who are better pilots than I will ever be.

Value: No, Aeroic is not the Cheapest. Yes, our models are made in China. In fact, just a little internet research will reveal that the workers in China who used to do menial jobs for very low wages have now migrated into high-tech and demand far higher pay than used to be the case 10 or 20 years ago. That includes our people. We hope that the value of the models when you, the buyer, and the flyer know what actually goes into them will make them an economic proposition.

Factory Practices: At Aeroic, we train and pay our workers well, and that’s because we want to keep them. We tell them what you guys are doing show them Pictures and videos and so they have a connection to the models they have made. We often discuss production issues and listen to their opinions. We put their good – sometimes great ideas into practice and reward them. We take our time making the models and use the best materials. Most other Chinese “Toy” companies have no concept of the fact that happy workers who feel they are part of a very well-organized team are the most important thing in any manufacturing company.

Non-visible things – our philosophy: As a company, we know our niche. Aeroic is a top-end sports model sailplane company that makes high-performance sports models, and it’s our entire aim to provide the models that will provide the best fun that you can have in this genre. We don’t make racing models per se, though some of our airframes, in fact, most of them, in their classes, are easily capable of competition model performance. The Spada, for example, is a fully featured GoFast model that will fly as fast and well as any F3f pilot can fly it. I am the designer of aeroic model aircraft, and as a passion, I have been designing and making model planes since the early 70s. I am possibly the most prolific non-scale model sailplane designer today, with my own and many models I have designed for other companies still in full production. My day job used to be designing UAV’s and there I a lot of stuff flying around up there that I have had a hand in. Of course, designing those large model planes involved a lot of theory, both new and old, as well as the development and testing of a lot of new aerodynamic tricks and structural innovations, some of which I have used on my own models. It sounds a bit cheesy, I know, but I can promise you that the greatest thrills and pleasures that I have are those that come when I see you guys, the flyers, throwing one of my models around the sky with big grins on your faces.

For me, that’s priceless.

~Doc