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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/4/2013 11:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Well I had the Ultimate set up and flying like a dream and then an .46 size Escapade flew through my left wing panels sending the Ulti to her death. I will say the gorilla glue held great for the hinges and wing joiner and will use it again with no reservations. 5 flights was not enough with this great plane.


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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/5/2013 12:22 AM   
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Status: online 		I feel your pain. I lost my first one due to a faulty servo cutting everything on and off. But liked the few flights so well I got one 3 days later via UPS. A real sweet plane.
   Sorry for your loss!


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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/5/2013 12:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		sorry to hear that about your Ulti FI_Matt, hope your gear and motor came thru unscathed!  Your next Ulti will go together quickly after already doing the the first build, good luck................Mike

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/5/2013 12:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		I am missing 1 servo and 1 servo the wires are shredded, carbon fiber spinner done, the IBEC is done, the ignition and muffler are garbage but the engine itself looks perfect. I will need to  check the crank for runout to know for sure. All the other servos and recievers are perfect as well as the batteries. There was about a 8" section of both top and bottom wing that were turned to toothpics and just happened to be where the aileron servos were.


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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/5/2013 12:57 AM   
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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/5/2013 1:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry about your plane. It is hard to look at.
I lost my first Ultimate when my receiver wire antenna broke off right where it entered the receiver box. I was low doing harriers and it just slowly did a wing over into the field.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/5/2013 4:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		482,548 views and 6,855 replies. WOW. thats gotta be a record. no?

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/5/2013 2:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Matt...Sorry about your loss. Like another respondent said, "hard to look at" for sure. Did the other flyer even apologize?
The upside though, is the fact that this thread is still going strong. I would say that it alludes to the fact that Great Planes sure hit a "winner" when they designed and marketed this plane. I still have fellow flyers ask me, "when you gonna bring the Ulti back to fly?" I have a "few"...LOL ... other planes that I enjoy also, but it seems that the guys focus on the Ultimate the most....

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/7/2013 12:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for the condolences everybody. Yes the guy did appologize and although I was very upset I managed to stay calm. No since being an azz about it, it was an accident. They say all planes have an expiration date I just wish it was the 500th flight and not the 5th.

I appriciate your offer Robert that is a very kind but I try to avoid flying other peoples planes for the fear something will go wrong while I'm holding the transmitter wether I dumb thumb it or one of the other million things that could go wrong. I fly at SPARKS in St Pete which field do you fly at?

This is an amazing thread, to think I have read every post to make sure the plane was setup and put together as good as possible avoiding all the problematic issues only for it to end by having my first and hopefully only mid-air collision.


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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/7/2013 12:59 AM   
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Status: online 		You are quite welcome Matt. My first one, with the bad servo, was in someone elses hand at the time. He wanted to help recoup but Shizit happens. Life goes on. And I learned a good lesson about used or old servos.
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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/7/2013 8:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		When somebody asks me to fly their plane...I reach into my pocket and pull out the change that I have and ask them, "will this cover your plane if something happens?" I get some funny looks, but it usually gets the point across in a humerous way.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 2/14/2013 7:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		Just saw on Tower's website that this is now back to $399. I may have to get one now after a couple years of going back and forth on it.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/12/2013 12:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Is anyone flying this bird in IMAC?  If so, how does it compare with the monoplanes?  Do you find it any harder to keep you wings level and lines straight?
I've been flying IMAC for a couple of years and haven't seen one biplane.  It makes me wonder if there's a disadvantage to biplanes.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/25/2013 1:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well, I just ordered this one.  It should be here by the end of the week.  Judging by the length of this thread I've got a LOT of reading to do.   
I have a Turnigy 52cc gas engine that should be the perfect powerplant for it.  It's a very low time engine and runs very, very well.  I had it on a much heavier plane and using a 21x6 prop it pulled it through the IMAC routine with little effort. 
It's a replacment for the smaller Reactor Bipe I totalled yesterday.  The only thing I can blame the crash on is a total receiver blackout.  Once airborne it would not respond to any commands from the transmittler.  I was using a DSM2 AR6200 with remote which has always performed well in the past.  I've experienced that kind of blackout when using the "park flyer" receivers but, never from a so-called "full range" receiver. 
From now on I'll be running DSMX receivers with my DX7s.
I'm really going to miss that little missile.  With the G20EI mounted it would do anything asked of it.

RJ


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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/27/2013 7:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		I got an email update from UPS and my Ulitmate will be here tommorrow ....oooops, make that today.    Just noticed the time.

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/28/2013 4:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hot digity ....it was on the front porch when we returned from the grocery store this evening. Now the fun starts and I can put to use all of the mods, suggestions, and experiences you folks have left for us first timers.  

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/28/2013 11:09 PM   
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Make sure to share your build pics. It is a very nice plane and it flys like a dream.



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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/29/2013 3:10 AM   
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Status: online 		RJ your new Bipe, with a 50+cc, will do anything you ask of it as well . Enjoy!


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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/29/2013 2:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Congrats Joe...You will certainly enjoy building this plane, for sure, but the "apple pie and ice cream" will come on the first flight. It is that sweet!!

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/29/2013 11:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		Replacing mine with a different airframe. I just have a bad vibe that if I replaced it with another Ultimate I won't ever fly it for fear it will have the same fate. I have nightmares of watching the plane spiral to it's death. Orded a Pilot RC extra 330 30% ..Hope it flys as nice as the Ulti did.



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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/30/2013 1:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		TRAITOR !!!!  How dare you.   

I have a flying buddy who has one just like your new one and it flies as good as it looks.  He's very happy with it and I can tell you first hand that it looks great in the air.

RJ


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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/30/2013 1:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		"I have nightmares of watching the plane spiral to it's death." A quote from Fl Matt.

A couple weeks ago I helplessly watched a 42% S-Bach fall to the ground and end up into "kindling" wood. The cause was a mistake in "depth perception" and the plane's right wing caught a pine tree limb on a landing approach. It wasn't even my plane, but I actually got sick to my stomach about it...

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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/30/2013 2:17 PM   
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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/30/2013 2:34 PM   
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RE: Great planes ultimate 160 - 3/30/2013 5:52 PM   
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"I have nightmares of watching the plane spiral to it's death."
A couple weeks ago I helplessly watched a 42% S-Bach fall to the ground and end up into "kindling" wood. The cause was a mistake in "depth perception" and the plane's right wing caught a pine tree limb on a landing approach. It wasn't even my plane, but I actually got sick to my stomach about it...a nightmare also.


I can understand and sympathize with that feeling.  Though I didn't get sick to my stomach, I did get a knot in it when my Reactor bit the dust and I've had that feeling before ...unfortunately.  Like you, it doesn't have to be my plane that crashes for me to have that feeling.  For me, it has something to do with watching the struggle to save it, the sound of the crash, and the sudden silence.  It's very depressing but, I don't have nightmares. 

On a far less serious note;  are you Scottish?  Maybe it has something to do with all of that money going up in splinters. 

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