ORIGINAL: Glacier Girl
Oh and here's a tip I haven't seen mentioned yet. Those darn flying wires will not hold up on the wings. They do just fine on the tail feathers and are needed back there, but on the wings they are about as worthless as ***'s on a boar. Mine snapped so many times that I gave up on building new ones out of wire. And the turn buckles were always jamming up and forcing me to use pliers to get em to break loose so I could tighten the wires.
What I ended up doing on mine was to go to Wally World and pick up thin bungee cord in the craft dept. It's the same diameter as the wire and worked perfectly as a replacement.
I used the threaded ends and turn buckles and all the rest of the hardware, just replacing the wire with cord.
The bungee will stretch tight, and a dab of CA locks the knots to hold it. And no more broken flying wires.
These wings are really lightly constructed. They really should have some wire support if you intend to do much aerobatic flying. I've seen an in-flight failure due to a lack of wing wires.
There are several of us flying these planes in the Omaha area. What we have done is use plastic-coated wire fishing leader line from Cabela's. It's much tougher than the wires that came with the plane. Once the original wires have been replaced, the wires become a non-issue.
Dean in Omaha