Goldberg Tiger 60
12-20-2005, 05:04 PM
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RE: Goldberg Tiger 60
Excellent kit (Both building and flying)
One tip I can give you is this: Be very careful when building the fuse to keep it square. What I like to do is to tack the fuse bottom down to the table with small finishing nails or brads, then block up the sides with something square to hold them in place while you tack-glue everything (Keeping a constant eye on its squareness).
Once the glue has set, you can remove it from the table (Long-nose pliers help) and then go over all of the seams with more glue.
One tip I can give you is this: Be very careful when building the fuse to keep it square. What I like to do is to tack the fuse bottom down to the table with small finishing nails or brads, then block up the sides with something square to hold them in place while you tack-glue everything (Keeping a constant eye on its squareness).
Once the glue has set, you can remove it from the table (Long-nose pliers help) and then go over all of the seams with more glue.
12-21-2005, 11:41 AM
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RE: Goldberg Tiger 60
It flys like a pattern plane. If you want it to be a little more responsive double the width of the elevator. Otherwise it's a great kit and you will love flying it. Mine has hundreds of flights on it.
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12-21-2005, 11:45 PM
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RE: Goldberg Tiger 60
This may not be applicable to the 60 (I've built the 40), but you may want to sheet the tail surfaces with 3/32 balsa sheet. Again, my experience is with the 40, but it has a very flimsy tail in its built up state. Also, the trailing edge sheeting had no support under the front edge and was very fragile, so I added 1/8 x 1/4 strips from rib to rib to give it support. The 60 may already include this, I don't know.
BTW, the Sept. 2000 RCM has an article on building an enclosed nose for this plane. Basically you mount the engine with a ply nosering tacked to the back of the spinner backplate (spaced with scraps of balsa to create clearance) and use 1/4" sheet to connect from the firewall to the nosering, then carve and sand it to shape.
BTW, the Sept. 2000 RCM has an article on building an enclosed nose for this plane. Basically you mount the engine with a ply nosering tacked to the back of the spinner backplate (spaced with scraps of balsa to create clearance) and use 1/4" sheet to connect from the firewall to the nosering, then carve and sand it to shape.
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RE: Goldberg Tiger 60
Hello; Two weeks ago a fellow brought a new Tiger 60 to the field, It looked great, but when someone tried to fly it, it was very tail heavy. In fact it took 17 ounces of solder to balance it correctly. It had a Surpass 70 in it and the owner said that he bought it built but he re-covered it since he didn't like the colour. We asked him what the tail looked like when he had the covering off, he said that he didn't notice anything out of the usual. After putting the 17 oz. around the motor mount, it flew great, very steady. Are they all that tail heavy?
12-22-2005, 06:30 AM
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RE: Goldberg Tiger 60
My Tiger2 kit balanced perfectly with a TT .46 and the battery/receiver right in front of the servos in the fuse. Fantastic flying ariplane!
12-23-2005, 05:41 AM
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RE: Goldberg Tiger 60
Does this plane build right off the plans or are there Modes out there that should be followed? This is my first kit and really want it to come out perfect.
12-23-2005, 07:01 AM
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RE: Goldberg Tiger 60
If you follow the plans, you really can't go wrong. I built my T2 as a tail-dragger and put aileron servos in each wing half, but even totally stock, they build and fly very nicely.
