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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/31/2012 10:16 PM   
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Question, is the LG in the above post the upgraded gear. And what's the difference visually. The one's I have look identical. Or anyone else for that matter.




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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/31/2012 10:20 PM   
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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/31/2012 10:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Keep some spare 'leeders' around, they do occasionally break.

Longer ones, cut to length, work great on the tail feathers too.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/31/2012 10:30 PM   
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mstcitabria.
Question, is the LG in the above post the upgraded gear. And what's the difference visually. The one's I have look identical. Or anyone else for that matter.




Go back to msg #1, and click on the following link....

Improved stock Landing Gear, from GP 1.60 Performance Series Extra 330s ARF

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/31/2012 10:31 PM   
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mstcitabria.
Question, is the LG in the above post the upgraded gear. And what's the difference visually. The one's I have look identical. Or anyone else for that matter.



acerc,
    Those are the GP Performance Series Extra 300 LG which are upgraded, more rigid and identical to the gear used on the Ulti. Visually no difference and the mounting holes are also identical. GP used a denser material on the Extra 300 LG when they realized the Ulti, using larger gas motors, was a having minor issue's with it's stock LG. Can be had for about 15 bucks thru GP.........

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 4/1/2012 12:02 AM   
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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 4/2/2012 7:30 PM   
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Status: online 		For those interested. Here's some pics of the inside of the wing.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 4/5/2012 7:58 PM   
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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 4/6/2012 8:56 AM   
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Did much of anything salvageable survive from #1....besides the interplane struts?

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 4/6/2012 2:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ace...Good to hear that you have your replacement. I'm sure that you will enjoy building it just as much as the first, since you know how "the build" goes now.
You stated that someone else was flying #1 when it was destroyed and it wasn't the pilots fault, but I stopped letting someone else fly my planes a while back as I found that I can "crash'em" as good as they can and there are no hard feelings afterward.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 4/6/2012 5:42 PM   
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Status: online 		Jim, there was not much left worth hanging on to. I kept the aluminum struts, main gear, and nose cone. The engine and electronics were fine. Throttle servo being the excetion.
IFW, there's a couple of us that fly each other's planes and we have no thought of anything if and/or when something happens. This day in particular something flew into my left eye. My friend actually had to run out to a screaming me. The crap in my eye was in one of those ways where the eye's water-up and twitch. I could almost not even see the plane.


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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 4/12/2012 1:11 AM   
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It flies as well as the first one. 




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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 6/1/2012 3:34 AM   
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Hopefully, THIS one will last ya several years!

Did much of anything salvageable survive from #1....besides the interplane struts?


a1pcfixer, The Carl Goldberg Ultimate is a good flying airplane.  Capt,n

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 6/11/2012 11:03 PM   
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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 6/11/2012 11:40 PM   
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The smile will be on your face for a while... Hope that you enjoy the plane as much as I do mine.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 6/11/2012 11:47 PM   
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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 7/25/2012 6:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hello im Pepe from mexico a friend of mine give me this plane crash im trying to restore but really i dont have any idea about the firewall and the position of the engine box if you can take some photos to the inside of fuselage and send me my e mail is pepebaca@live.com.mx i take some photos to watch what im talking about for your atenttion thanks

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 8/30/2012 4:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well its been about five or six years since I purchased my Ultimate, but it is almost ready to fly. I got a question though. I tried to balance it without the wings on at 1" behind the front bolt, as suggested in this thread but its extremely tail heavy, but it balances fine at the suggested balance points in the instruction. Although it is difficult to get your fingers at the cg under the top wing. How is everyone balancing their planes as suggested in the thread or by the instructions? Just for reference it will fly with a Brillelli 50 cc engine up front and I have my batteries at the cg near the sides of the fuel tank.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 8/30/2012 2:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Mine balances 1" in front of the back bolt without the wings.
suggest you search the posts for this again.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 8/30/2012 3:38 PM   
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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 8/31/2012 4:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		ok thanks, I misread it. Had it 1" behind the front bolt, no wonder it was so tail heavy.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 9/15/2012 12:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		Working on the assembly of my first Ultimate, I have read most of the 273 Pages. I have noticed on the wing joiners that even without the aluminum piece in place both wings can mate flat against each other and still have a little play. This being noted I would have to say there is a lot of slop between the joiner and the wing pockets, this makes me curious if that is why some have had joiner failures. The slop could cause poor glue joints that allow flex over time which could lead to the break.


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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 9/15/2012 2:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		This "slop" that you are referring to is usually an unwanted feature on most planes that have a wing joiner setup. That is why I use gorilla Glue on all wings that are joined in this manner. The glue expands to fill those voids. I have been flying my Ultimate since this thread began, in fact, I flew it this past Monday afternoon...a MOST enjoyable and fun plane to fly.
Of course, my choice of glue type is just my preference only.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 9/15/2012 2:52 PM   
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This "slop" that you are referring to is usually an unwanted feature on most planes that have a wing joiner setup. That is why I use gorilla Glue on all wings that are joined in this manner. The glue expands to fill those voids. I have been flying my Ultimate since this thread began, in fact, I flew it this past Monday afternoon...a MOST enjoyable and fun plane to fly.
Of course, my choice of glue type is just my preference only.




did you do any mod to the joining?  or did you do as the manual instructed using Gorilla glue?



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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 9/15/2012 11:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just cut the factory plywood(1/8 thick) off the wing joiner and replaced it with a 1/4 thick piece of ply. I only removed 3/16 total off the joiner so I could make a more precise fit into the wings. Between the thicker ply and the better fit I hopefully will not have a failure.


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