aflipz
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Joined: 7/2/2005
From: Montreal,
QC, CANADA
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Wow, sorry to hear about your bad luck guys.
I'm not attacking the plane or the people flying it but after owning one (wich i still enjoy and am working on again right now) I have to say these are not meant to be put through the tortures of high g's at least not out of the box. If you look at the motor recomendations the 480 is much lighter and less powerfull than the motors some people (iuncluding me) are using. In fact their smaller setup involves 1320mah lipos and an even smaller park 450.
On moderate rates with a light setup i doubt we would be seeing much of these failures. The problem is this plane has a severe identity crisis; it thinks and acts like a hardcore 3d plane but it's built to fly like a sport plane.
My first setup on it was a phoenix 25 esc, a kontronik maxi dancer that i somewhat over prop with a 10x5 CF prop and alternate between 1320's, 2P910's and a 1500mah 12-18C pack (all 3s) Depending wich one i use the flight characteristics changed and it was doing really well though it didn't feel powerfull enough for off the deck torque rolling confidence. So i changed setup. (on this first setup i only reinforced the firewall a little) ranged between 26.5 and 28.8oz depending on pack if i remember correctly.
I put a 103 gram motor equivalent to the torque 2818 900kv, a 45A esc and a 2100 mah lipo. At that moment i felt it was important i reinforce the elevator at the very least and so i did. It's slow speed flight characteristics and it's slow high alpha maneuvering suffered from the added weight of this larger power setup at least that's the way i feel about it, some might prefer it this way, i don't. It certainly did have more than enough power now that i did enjoy...
I have just finished pulling this setup off the plane, reverting to the first one. I will use these components including the hs65's in the Katana MD i am going to get soon, i have obtained some blue bird 371's that i am allmost done installing on the extra now. Re-maiden soon, I haven't stopped loving this plane, it just needs to be understood that it's meant to fly light, smooth and gentle, if we want to tear large gashes in the sky we need to beef some components of it up.
Happy flying!
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