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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/16/2008 10:25:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		John Cirri. Mine is the Black, and yellow one. The cowel is drilled for eng prop shaft , and cooling holes. There are two different arf kits. When you look at the pic of the parts, mine has the parts of the red one, but is the other one. I think its a great arf kit. The only things I didnt care for is the elev system. I prefer to operate each half independantly. The other thing is the placement of the tail serface servos. I think if they were forward in the fuse there wouldnt be a need to add weight to ballance. Both are easly changeable. They could have added a dummy eng too.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/16/2008 10:43:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks so much for that info, I have the GP 61" one, It flys great with the ST 90 up front, It's that i spent extra time doing it up like the one up in Rhinebeck N.Y and fly it 3-4 time's through the season only, So i'd like another one fo flying every weekend, I would move all servo's up front, You don't want servo's in the back of a dr1, thanks much.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/17/2008 2:14:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		John. I have the GP DR1 also, and it flies great as well. I have a Saito 91 in it. What did you do for wing skids. I made mine look like ax handels, which is what was used on the full scale one. I fly mine every weekend that the weather will allow. Yours must have oodles of power with that power up front, mine has more than it needs with the 4 stroker.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/17/2008 2:40:36 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yup plenty of power, But the bigger Engine help's mostly for balance, Take's off and flys 1/2 throttle, The thing with getting the NM one, Shipping $36 to NJ ouch.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/17/2008 2:50:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not using skid's, KNOK ON WOOD at least 25 flight's and no ground looping, I would make some little axe handles like yours for mine though. I'll need them one day, And they"ll look good too.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/17/2008 7:01:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		I fly from a landscaping kind of fabrick, prety slipery. There is also grass on either side of the strip. If I dont put it down on the grass it will almost always groundloop. I have yet to make a landing on the fabrick where one of the wing skids didnt touch. 12 flights. Grass is no problem, but is narrow, and edged by brush. It will land so slow it almost never ends up in a noseover, and even then there hasnt been any dammage. For the wing skid mounts I opened up the last bay on the wing and glued in some plywood between the last two ribs. I bent some brass 1/4" wide flatstock around the ax handeles with a mounting flange. Two brackets per skid. These are wood screwd to the ply in the wing. The ax handeles are basicly 1/4" dowel, but I am thinking of carving little ax handeles from hardwood. The GP version is a much better arf than the NP. But when they were makeing them they were over twice the price. Fortunatly mine was given to me. I wish GP would rerelease it. With smaller $ tag of course.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/17/2008 7:37:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'll try to send a pic of mt GP dr1

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/18/2008 2:42:35 AM   
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Status: offline 		Great pic. Just like mine except the Horrizontal stab and elev. Mine is sollid red. Did you change yours or did it come that way? I cant post photos. But If you go to kitsaparcs.org which is my club sight, and click on featured model you can see it.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/18/2008 3:02:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		I did the black/white, and the cloud w/heart.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/18/2008 8:08:58 PM   
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Status: offline 		Did your NM dr1 Have the wood cockpit or the plastic cover, I don't like the look of the plastic one.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/18/2008 8:52:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nitrostaff1, Can you shed some light on the balance of the dr1, Alot of people are saying it's not in the Instructions.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/18/2008 11:52:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		John. Mine has a wood bottom cockpit. The ballance point is 58mm from the leading edge of wing. It doesnt specify what wing. It has to be the top wing.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/19/2008 12:13:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for helping me out, I'm about a week away from finishing my cox/pica 1/6th Waco bipe, Then i"ll order it.

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/19/2008 9:55:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		The purpose of the long Engine box is to counter balance for the wieght of the servo's and wire's in the back, My thought is to move all servoe's up front, And cut the box off, and mount the engine flush with the firewall, With only moding the cowel, And maybe a different fuel tank, I just ordered it, Didn't want to take the chance of going out of stock. jc

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/20/2008 2:34:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sounds like a good plan. Mabe you should move srevos, then check ballance befor cutting off box just in case forwaqrd servo location dont do it. I think that would be a great mod caus the cowel looks way to long. I think I would also consider useing Pull-pull wires for tail surfaces. Rudder for sure. Might save more weight in the tail. Looks great too. What if any, dummy engine are you going to use? How about the guns?

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RE: NITRO FOKKER DR1 - 5/20/2008 2:54:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Williams brothers has gun's, and dummy's, You only need 3 cyl to stick out the bottom of the cowl, I have a ST.75 that will go in (Cyl head on top) mounted, It has a swing muffler, So i can point it straight down inside the cowl like I did with the GP version, Just 1 hole on top for the Ni-starter and 1 for needle valve, Once i get the kit in front of me, I'll figure thing's out, I should have it F riday!!!.

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