I picked mine up last weekend.

I've spent the last few evenings going over the airplane. Here's my observations so far.

The weights posted by Chris are dead on. Mine came up at 2268g this included all the hardware that came with the kit. (I admit I weighed the parts in the bags) Looking at the hardware I suspect a lot of it will either not get used or replaced. It's good stuff don't get me wrong it's just not my favorite method of doing things.

We pulled the wings out and they are VERY nice. I checked them and they're the same size dimensionally. They are straight as my digital meters confirmed.

The wing tube is tight in the fuse as it should be. I slid the wings on and measured from the tips to the tail and it's within 1/32". I think that's close enough.

I checked the stab tube in the fuse and found it to be loose, I've had the same problem with my Prolines are a few flights. I simply measured where the tube should fit in the fuse and then flowed some thin CA on the tube which tightened up the fit to perfect.

I then measured the wing tips to stab tips and just smiled. I couldn't get it any closer if I tried. Stab tip to wing tip horizontal is as good as it gets.

I then checked the wing incidence and found like everyone else that wing adjusters are going to be required. One side was almost .4 off from the other side. This is not unexpected nor an issue. We move wings anyway.

The rudder hinges are robart style and already glued in. The hinges everywhere else are CA type and not glued in.

One thing I noticed is the kit includes two control horns for each surface and some of the older pictures of this airplane show both being used with the clevis in between them. This kit only has cut outs in the surfaces for one. Odd.

The fuse appears to be straight and lite. The canopy is freaking HUGE but very lite, it is not pinned but there is plenty of hardware with the kit to do the job twice I think. I believe the canopy alone will take the longest to do.

The landing gear came with two holes drilled for the pants and two for the fuse. The gear isn't drilled correctly for the fuse side. The fuse has 4 nut plates installed for each gear leg in a square pattern, the gear has two holes drilled on the centerline. Why I don't know.

The finish on the wings and stabs is very good, much better than I could do and as good as I've seen on the better arf's out there.

The fuse finish is good. Not perfect but very good. To get great you'll have to spend a lot more coin, there is a seam but it's very minor.

So far I'm very happy to have my first elect Pattern Plane. I figure I got the plane, Pletty, Jetti, Batts and the spinning things on the front for less than the average ARF pattern plane price today.

Going to spend this winter getting it together. It'll be fun I'm sure.

Tim.