great planes dr-1
I got mine about a week ago. Fuselage forward sheeting is broken in 4 places, monocote torn at 2 of the breaks. No signs of shipping damage to outer box so I`m not shure if damage was done during packageing or shipping? Tower Hobbies offered to exchange it and pay for return shipping, but after the long wait to get it I`ve decided to repair and recover it myself and consider it a lesson learned not to buy large fragile ARFs from anybody except my LHS. As far as the plane goes it is very well done for a stand off scale triplane. It does look strange in such a shiney finish. Mine will be recovered blue at the damaged areas with matching paint detailing and overall sprayed a light coat of matte clear, Saito 90 for power.
Don`t figure wing incidence from level stab, go by the datum line and you`ll see the H.stab is at a positive incidence in level flight. This is easily seen in any good 3 view of the Fokker and is needed to counter strong lift of 3 wings [ same function as the drooping elevator on a Sig Kadett Senior]
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