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RE: Hybrid Edge - 2/18/2008 4:44:26 AM   
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ORIGINAL: craigteffe

Here are a couple more of my plane on Saturday.



very nice photo's...... the covering looks great.

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RE: Hybrid Edge - 2/18/2008 8:15:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Crash, Have you floan your plane yet?

This is my best flying plane to date.

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RE: Hybrid Edge - 2/18/2008 9:43:20 PM   
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RE: Hybrid Edge - 2/27/2008 12:37:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Mike do you know where a person can get one of these planes built?

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RE: Hybrid Edge - 2/27/2008 6:16:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		Craig, the best thing to do is check with your local clubs or hobby shop for professional builders. It is much better to support your local builders and plus you save the hassles of shipping a built plane.....which is always risky. If you live in an active flying area chances are there are several modelers available for building services.

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RE: Hybrid Edge - 2/29/2008 6:02:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Well. I was a bit worried about weight throughout the build. I remember some of the older hybrids reporting in at over 18lbs. Mine came in at 16lbs 7oz. Not bad at all considering the cannister setup. I am extremely happy. I weighed it with a rapala digital fish scale.

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RE: Hybrid Edge - 2/29/2008 12:49:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		So is your test flight coming this wekend? Let us know how it goes. If yours flys anything like mine, You are going to love this plane.



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RE: Hybrid Edge - 2/29/2008 3:03:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		craig...... is there any chance we can get to see a video of you edge???

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RE: Hybrid Edge - 2/29/2008 10:01:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		I will see if somebody at the field has a video camera that they can take a video with.



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RE: Hybrid Edge - 2/29/2008 10:57:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am building the second wing panel right now. But, I have ran into a snag. I don't have enough hardwood for the bottom (top on the building board) wing spar. No where around here sells stuff over 36" and I really don't want to spend ten bucks on shipping for a 70 cent stick of wood 48" long. So, can I splice two pieces together? This is really bugging me.

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RE: Hybrid Edge - 3/1/2008 1:26:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		I would only splice if that was my only option. If you do splice the spar i would cut at 45 degree angle glue together and then run carbon fiber strips on both sides(Top & Bottom) at least 12 inches past the splice on both sides.

If you have a table saw you can cut your own from a good solid piece of pine, or you could use some hardwood.



< Message edited by craigteffe -- 3/1/2008 1:27:35 AM >

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RE: Hybrid Edge - 3/3/2008 1:07:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		I put 5 more flights on my Hybrid yesterday. The DL is really getting strong! This plane is really fun. I'm gonna have to figure out how to get some weight in the nose. The plane climbs pretty fast flying inverted.

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RE: Hybrid Edge - 3/3/2008 1:34:50 AM   
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I put about 7 more on mine yesterday and still loving the plane. You may consider a jtec wrap around muffler for the Dl it adds a little more weight and quietens it down and will not change the RPM. If you don't have a spinner on it try that i had to add a spinner and that helped it a lot.


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RE: Hybrid Edge - 3/4/2008 9:55:22 PM   
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I had to splice as well and the solution described by Craig is really working well. I used epoxy to glue in the carbon, very strong.
Moreover I am not the only one who faced this problem. So this is a proven solution

Paul

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RE: Hybrid Edge - 3/4/2008 10:06:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		I just broke down and ordered some hardwood stock for the spar from BalsaUSA. .70 cents for the wood and ten bucks for shipping. At least I will feel better when pulling some g's.

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