Minnreefer

I had a learning experience of my tiger maiden today. As I mentioned earlier, I used some budget electric retracts in the wing, I tried them many times without issue at home, but I must have had something loose, during the maiden, the wheels retracted fine, but when he tried to lower them, they got hung up, which caused a very heavy drain on my batteries, which caused my rx to lock up and the plane to crash. I am bummed at everything. The damage is not as bad as it could have been, and I think I am going to repair, but sad day for me.

jon

bikerbc

I am very sorry to hear about the loss of your Tiger.. I have also had bad experience with electric retracts in an Ultra Sport and have decided that I wont bother to put them in a sport aircraft again..They bend too easily and need constant tweaking.. Again sorry to hear of your loss.. Tigers are one of my favorite planes

Crazy4Flight

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Sorry for your loss. Next time with electric retracts you can use a JR matchbox and 2nd battery. The second battery plugs into the Matchbox and will power the retracts. the match box will Isolate the Rx battery from the possible power drain.

On smaller planes I like to use SpringAir retracts a strong retract with a proven history ... air up and spring down if you loose air pressure the gear come down.

sgu

Jon, that bites. But, come on, you know we want to see pictures.

Dave

Minnreefer

Pictures of before (edit I will try to flip the pictures so you don't have to turn your computer upside down) ))

sgu

Looks great and I like the engine cowl. Hope the bear made it!

Dave

warningshot

Minnreefer
I received the plans today. Thank you very much. Hope to have the Tiger 2 rebuilt very soon.

Michael44

Hi all, I would like to join the Tiger Club. I am building my second Tiger 60, the first was the arf, agreat aircraft, so good in factit inspired me to buildthe kitso I could personalize it.The arfwas a tail dragger withan OS 75 AX,(an incredible combo), the newTiger is getting a Magnum 91 4 stroke, which I have had much success with. It will be built in the trike configuration,a 3 blade MAS prop, 3" wheels, completely stock out of the box.

I have completed the stab, rudder, and will startconstruction on the wing today. I find the kit to bea straight forward build,with the only change being the wood for the stab/rudder as it was rock hard and heavy. The hardward, imho,is typically lesserqualityand will be replaced.Iplanoncontrol rods rather than nyrods. I havea Futaba 10c 2.4 radio/617rxand will install S3010 Futaba servos.

So far it has been a lot of fun, I had forgotten how much enjoyment I getbuilding myown aircraft. I like arfs too butwill be building more of my own planes now that I am retired.

I will post some pictures asI progress. Looking forward to getting my GTC number! Thank you.

Michael

thailazer

Welcome Michael! Kits do give you more satisfaction but I am sure you had fun with the ARF as well.

mrshea

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oh man i lost my tiger last saturday. I heard flutter on a pass over the runway figured it was an aileron, End of the runway pull straght up probably harder than i should have, Hammer head and come staight down with no elevator. Total loss was able to save engine, Reciever and battery pack. I hit so hard that it put a hole in a 6 oz hard dubro tank and stripped the gears of the servos except one. The elevator servo. Post crash examination showed that it looked like the control horn pulled out of the elevetor i'm assuming on the way down. I'm totally bummed about but now i can build a new one with some mods to make it a little more responsive. Phil #19

thailazer

Sorry to hear that. Aileron flutter is common on the Tiger using the supplied hardware. I had it on mine early on and I'm only flying on 35AX. I quickly put in a dual aileron set up and no problems at all after that.

Build another one soon. It happens.

donnyman

Hello!

I put this together just for the fun. too busy to finish it but I know it to be a great flying bird.

jkr_1100

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Michael44. You are number 59


Welcome!

jkr_1100

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Sorry to hear about your tiger MrShea

mrshea

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there's a rebuild planned real quick after I get a couple others in the covering stage finished up. Phil #19

nh4clo4

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Donny, those bare bones look really nice!!

donnyman

Thanks

It is at the point were I usually lose interest (I know! I'm nuts!) But I do have many others On the workbench, and I am considering installing a different nose gear.

Modifying my birds is very gratifying to me I really don't care to have something others have. modifying and scratch building makes me happy.

rye

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hey guys well we flew the two tigers we build but the tail dargger meet a pole on a climb out the os 60 airbleed carb that i got years ago dead stick and meet the pole, hit it, rap around and got the tail could of fix it but for the price of a new one wasnt worth my time as for the 60 fp os engine could never get her to run right and because of crashs it broke the neele valve and bend the shaft so she is now a reef in my pond we are going to start a new one next week maybe with retracts any one got information on how to do that thanks rye

Michael44

JKR 1100.....Thank you!!

Michael44
GTC #59

sgu

Hi All,

I finally maidened my Tiger 2 after the rebuild (whole new kit.) This time it weighs about a pound more and it really took the float out of it. Here's the video.

Dave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiTRl...ature=youtu.be

PatrickCurry

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Dave that is AWESOME!  Most enjoyable video I've seen in a LONG time!  LOL  Thanks for a great laugh.

nh4clo4

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Dave, nice rebuild, glad you got it back in the air

skyraider71

My Tiger 60 ARF went into a tree on it's third flight, destroyed it
getting it down. Always wanted to build and fly the Tiger II, may do it soon.

nh4clo4

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Well, after a terrible Spring, I finally got the Tiger out and started breaking in the new Magnum, I have only flown once so far this year because of weather, but it looks like it is clearing up, Next time out hope to maiden it.

For some reason teh orange stripes didn't show up in the picture.

ED

rye

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hi
we got the one tiger left and it flys great added about 30% of - expo until we get the hang of flyer her on the egde ,but we always want to check the
Incidence because the one that went in on a dead stick was really high on the elevtor on the radio but we never got the chance to do that,does anyone know what the Incidence should be ,thanks rye