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Glacier Girl -> RE: E-flite J-3 Cub 25 ARF (9/26/2006 1:05:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PaulG-RC
Glacier Girl, I notice in your gallery a B-25 and a P38 are those the Hobby-Lobby, if so how do you like them?
I'm thinking of the B-25 [:)]
Paul
Paul, the B25 is a H/L, the 2 bigger P38's are NitroPlanes versions.
Love the 38's, little dissapointed with the B25. I splurged and bought the full bore kit. Umm, it will not hold up to grass take off's and landings, with out some reworking. So told by Don at H/L, after mine had 2 structural failures. #1 was fuselage snapping right behind the wing. There is no inner support after the wing, the whole tail assy is supported by only the hollow foam fuselage. And that's a lot of tail back there. I installed spars to support it and it actually flew better.
#2 failure was poor assy at the factory. On last landing whole front of the fuselage collapsed, and to make matters worse it rolled into the still spinning left prop.[:@] Post accident investigation had found that wooden inner structure was tack glued to the foam, but never had been glued together. I e-mailed Don @ H/L about it and he told me they had beefed up their's with CF to handle the additional stresses of take offs and landings. Would have been nice if it had been mentioned in the manual. Well Don has promised a replacement fuselage for me, but it's been nearly 2 1/2 months now, and I'm still waiting for delivery.[&:]
In the time I did have it though, I really enjoyed flying it. Very stable in the air, and loved the sound of twin props.
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