It is the aim of Bolly Props / Bolly Products to manufacture the best propellers (pipes, mufflers and kits) available. Bolly products are made from top quality materials, with precision and care. All Bolly products are of Bolly's own design, or designed in collaboration with top aero-modellers. We also have the best range available to suit almost every competition or sports flying need. We also stock a large range of specialist accessories to complement the products we manufacture.

Bolly Products does not and will not duplicate other peoples' products (unless approved by the originator). We ask that others be equally ethical.

We are proud that many new techniques and ideas have come from the Bolly work shop. For example we were the first to produce the plug-on nose cone now so popular in the F3B glider world, we were the first in Australia to produce fuselages using the overlap seam method (credit for originating this goes to Germany), and we are the first company to successfully commercialise carbon fibre tuned exhausts.

To maintain our excellent quality and high standards, most Bolly products are hand made. As we make our own masters and moulds this takes time and care. The off shoot of this is that:

A) the products must be more expensive than machine made products.

B) we can make products machines can't.

C) our product range is extremely versatile, with something for every modeller or class of model.

For the GRP Products, Glues and Hardware range, we will only package and sell the products we ourselves use in production or personal modelling. It has taken us many years to develop these products, we will not and are not packing simply the cheapest ‘stuff’ on the market.

The owner/founder of Bolly Props is Les Bollenhagen, often referred to as 'Bolly', hence the name 'Bolly Props', or as it is now known ‘Bolly Products’. Having flown a large number and variety of events at competition level for over 20 years has provided an excellent foundation for the understanding and development of propellers, pipes and engines. A list of Les’s involvement in the hobby would be ....

1970’s, FF, FF Glider, C/L Combat, C/L Rat Race.

1980’s, R/C Glider, C/L Team Race, C/L Stunt, C/L Speed, F/F HLG, F/F Indoor, R/C Pylon, R/C Aerobatics. During the mid 1980’s many hours were spent flying, testing and coaching C/L Aerobatics. Les has judged C/L Aerobatics at local through to International contest level.

1990’s, R/C Aerobatics and R/C Pylon. More recent involvement has been with R/C Large Scale and Ducted Fan. Les has achieved many top results in R/C Pylon and Aerobatics, including several wins at AMPRA (Australia’s most prestigious pylon event) and promotion to Expert in Aerobatics, with a promotion point to Masters, (the top Australian class).

A guide to Bolly Products is the success of the product in competitions throughout the world.

The TOC (Tournament of Champions) event has been won by Chip Hyde and Quique Somenzini, using a Bolly props, as have many of the other competitors in this event..

Quique Somenzini, one of the world's best, uses Bolly Products extensively for his fine performances. We now produce (exclusively), Quique’s latest F3A models, the Desafio S / 2000.

The Australian Nationals have had many Bolly triumphs. At different times over 50% of competitors of various events have been using Bolly Props and / or Pipes...... with great success.

The same applies to many of the special interest championships, i.e. the pylon AMPRA Champs or pattern APA Masters or old timer events.

To our knowledge at least 3 World Championships have been won using our propellers. Several times complete teams have used our products. We look forward to this trend continuing.

Bolly Props are best known for top performance GRE or CRE propellers

However as Bolly interests have expanded, so has our range of products. Initially Bolly was producing propellers, foam core wings and GRE fuselages for retail outlets. These three products are still made, but now only under the Bolly name - where we have full control of type, quality and price.

To fully utilise an engines potential, not only does it need the best propeller, but also a good exhaust system. A good pipe can improve power output by 50%. We now manufacture an increasing range of Carbon Fibre Pipes. Our speciality being the advanced square and rectangular shape pipes.

Recently introduced is our ‘GRP Products, Glues & Hardware’ range. This range features ... Epoxy resins, glass cloth, C/F , glassfibre, Aramid fibre (kevlar) rovings, silicon exhaust fittings, etc, just to name a few of the products.

Bolly Products are now distributed to over 42 countries.

We have agents in many of these countries, a few of whom are sole agents.

We can provide details of our agents etc on request.