A couple of years ago I scaled down the plan of the Tiger 40 to around 40 inches and was toying with putting a Norvel .061 or TT .074 on the front but never got around to it. Now I have scaled down my engine size to .010, .020 and the GWS S2 electric but I see that Tower has introduced this little "made in China" jewel. I may have to rekindle the fire.

http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...P=K#otheritems

That's a handsome plane and it would make for a quick and simple build, BUT it looks too big for anything less than a .15 to haul it with "pattern plane" type authority. I don't think it should .weigh much more than 13 ozs if you want a good vertical line with an 061. Maybe if a good quantity of wood gets left in the kit box instead of installed on the plane an 074 can get the job done with style?NAH, I still like the .15 idea.

Neat plane, has more appeal in the smaller size to me. I'm thinking it would be a good home for my Norvel .15 but it would hardly be a Park Flyer. FYI, Tower claims a "Flying Weight with 2-Cell Li-Po Battery: 1.1 lb (499g)" For comparison the slightly smaller HOB 1/12 scale series at 36" span are all supposed to be within 20-28 OZ and use .051-.10

Nick

I think that a 0.061-0.074 would be a good choice. At 1.1 pound with the heavy elecrtic motor and the lipo batterys. With a little work it should be easy to get it around 13 oz ready to fly. My Half Wit almost hovers at 14.8 oz. So I don't see 3 more onces needing to go from a 0.061 to a .15. Plus the extra weight of the .15 over the 0.061 would kill any type of glide it would have.

Dru.

I built a 36" model, based on the Tiger 2, a couple of years ago. I used it for combat and killed it. It was a nice flyer though.

You consider THAT killed? 'Tis a mere flesh wound! 1/2 hour with CA and some scrap balsa, max!

Isn't that the way most ARF models look when you first take them out of the box?

It could have been repaired easily enough, but it sat around for a year and I used the wing for something else.

It was a mid-air, as you can probably tell, and my wing came off while cutting Paul's plane in half. His prop cut my throttle servo wire making it a Norvel powered missile.