Edge 540 Pirtek
The Zivko Edge 540 in Pirtek racing livery — the Australian Red Bull Air Race team colors flown by Matt Hall — captured as a giant-scale RC aerobatic model.
About
The Zivko Edge 540 is the product of Zivko Aeronautics, a small American aerospace company that has spent three decades designing purpose-built unlimited-aerobatic aircraft. Development began in the early 1990s and the type made its first flight in 1996. From the start it was conceived for one job — winning at the very top end of competitive aerobatics, where airframes need to do what most aircraft cannot: hover on the propeller, knife-edge with no rudder support, and snap-roll at staggering rates.
A lightweight aerobatic airframe paired with oversize control surfaces and a high power-to-weight ratio give the real Edge 540 a 420-degree-per-second roll rate and a 3,700-foot-per-minute climb — figures that have made it the dominant airframe on the international Unlimited circuit since the late 1990s. When the Red Bull Air Race World Series launched in 2003, the Edge 540 became the most common aircraft on the racing grid, and the airframe most associated with the series during its peak years. The Pirtek livery flown on this model represents the long-running Australian Red Bull Air Race team, and the colors are part of the visual heritage of the series.
The Edge 540 silhouette is one of the most-modeled aerobatic shapes in modern RC scale flying, and a livery-specific variant like the Pirtek scheme is exactly the kind of detail that makes scale-aerobatic fly-ins compelling — multiple Edge 540s in different team colors representing the world's top air-racing pilots.
In the simulator
The same demanding handling as the other Edge 540 variants in this pack — instant response, near-zero pitch stability, big roll authority, and the kind of stick discipline a Red Bull Air Race pilot trains for. The Pirtek livery is the visual difference; the airframe character matches the rest of the Edge family. Use this aircraft to fly competition-style figures: vertical lines, knife-edge passes, snap rolls, and hovering on the prop. Pairs well with open aerobatic-box landscapes. A sibling of the Edge 540 Red Bull livery in this same pack.
