RE: Aviation Designs "StarJet"
I think those throws are about the same as on my Exocet, From what I understand the Exocet and Starjet share the same wing, it should be an awesome flying jet.
I don't think the Aviation design kits are bad kits at all, I think they are perhaps a fair bit more work than a BVM kit or something, but then at the same time I found my parts fit to be better as well. The hatch on my Exocet was the first and only hatch on any jet kit I've built that actually fit reasonably well without major work. The Wings are perhaps the only part I was dissappointed in, the obechi soaks up alot of resin when glassing and they are heavy, I think probably 2 pounds could be shed with balsa covered wings and carbon spars vs the fiberglass cloth and then obechi that AD used.
However, it is an incredibly string wing!. Also, for what the kits cost you certainly can't complain. When I bought my Exocet I was of course drooling over a Bandit, the deciding factor was that the Exocet landed at my door cost me under $1000 Canadian dollars, I had $1150 canadian invested once I had retracts, (the jet came with brakes) and a Bandit with retracts and brakes would have cost me over $5000 Canadian landed at my door. That's not to say the Bandit isn't worth that money, I don't know if it is or not, I would have to say it is based on what everyone says about them, but having just recently maiden'd my Exocet I give HUGE props to Aviation Design for an outstanding jet!
Anyway, the only improvement I could think of for the exocet would be plug in wings as the one piece highly swept wing is a major pain to transport, had I been thinking when I built it I'd have made it a 2 piece wing that joined together and then was bolted on as one piece, but I wasn't thinking LOL!!!!
Based on the 2 jets being of similar design, I can only imagine your starjet will fly awesome too.
It was a squeeze, but I fit a 1.5 liter bottle in the exocet and a 12oz header tank, there is no way a 2 liter bottle would fit in it, (at least not the 2 liter bottles we have here) but I get good flight time with what I have.
Good luck with your maiden voyage!!!