Kevin from Hobbymate just sent me:   For building and testing proposes. 

Flasher 450 Sport edition. 

all carbon fiber body
all cnc metal head and tail
carbon fiber 325 main blades
tail belt driven
fiberglass canopy
Hobbywing 40a esc with 3a bec
HB 730 avcs gyro (looks like an updated version of the current)
3800Kv brushless motor

First impression:   quality is excellent.  on par with the Align.  both in quality and in finish. 

this kit is vastly superior to the HK version that hobbyking sells

I have already started the build and will post pictures as soon as possible

to be continued........

btw....for those of you that was wondering where I've been for the last 2 weeks.  I was on a vacation in Vietnam.  Thanks to all those that was concerned for my safety.  You guys rock!
 

some pics of the bird....  very nice quality carbon and metal....much better than the HK version.

more pics:  

first thing I did was disassembled the head and put my own loctite on.  lots of the screws were loctited already by the factory, I always play it safe and make sure all the screws are loctited on the head. 

the build is completed.   The wiring is still a mess but its still in the setup phase, so after its tweaked I will clean up the mess.

couple of things I want to add:   the main gear is out of round and is causing some minor vibrations.  I will change it to an align part at first chance.

I installed the gyro directly underneath the main gear.  

I'm getting alot of drift from the HB730 gyro.  so more tweaking is needed.  Its OK but defintely not top end material. 

Blades are tracking perfectly.   Very happy with this bird.  highly recommended.

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ORIGINAL: neilg.

that frame is an align sport.  it is identical.  even has the viewing windows to level servos.  and the battery tray has the small cutout in it.  the gyro mounting pad is identical.  the way the tail locks into the tail boom is identical.  when i first saw the picture of the manual i thought "this looks familiar". 

so it is a align sport with low-end electronics ?

I've been busy with work and have not had a chance to fine tune my gyro.  I'm still getting drift but its getting better.   I will do a video very soon. stay tuned folks

I wouldnt be surprised if these kits and the align kits are from the same factory.   the manual is the same as the align,  whereever the align word was used they plugged in flasher.   quality of parts is on Par with align.  its very well made,  much better than hobbyking.

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ORIGINAL: green river rc

I'm going to go ahead and get subscribed because I have one on the way as well. I ordered yesterday morning so lets see how long it takes to get it from China . Shipping was about $35 to KY in case anyone was wondering.

David

Place my order with targethobby.com with electronics, as well as a ar6100e for my DSX 7, it is very cheap. I search hobbymate, they have a good reputation for the motors, not knowing about other items, I will build it with my DSX 7 after it arrive here.