I just received the latest Naruke design - the Acuracy mono GP - from Jet Legend.
I have been flying a Naruke F3A design since 2006, started with an Astral XX, then the Altair 200, the Asyuler, & for the past three years, the Aiolos. Before switching to Naruke's, I was partial to Akiba's design & still have the beautiful all wood ProLine built by one of the top Japanese builder - Inagaki - with equipment installed by Akiba himself. The plane served me well for both the 2007 & 2009 WC. However, with Akiba switching to E power, Naruke remains one of the few designers still offering glow planes.
Presently, there are six different versions of Acuracy mono/ bipe in the market:-
The Japanese built all wood mono & bipe GP, the Oxai bipe in both GP & EP version, & the Jet Legend mono in GP & EP form.
Since the Acuracy mono GP is an evolution of the Asyuler, it has the usual one piece wing, with similar lines, a forward canopy area & anhedral stabs. In addition to a flair rudder, it also has the flair elevator. The flair elevator helps in slowing down lines, I have them installed on my Aiolos for the past two years & really enjoy flying with them. Because of the more demanding rolling & knife edge maneuvers, the Acuracy have a very tall fuselage, especially in the aft area & a very big fin & rudder as well, it also have a counter-balance rudder to add more rudder authority. It will be interesting to fly a plane with a counter-balance rudder again, the last time I flew one was the Smaragd Z by Wolfgang Matt. So far, there are no T cans on any of the Naruke's 2M glow monos, but he did added a thin strip of fin along both sides of the fuselage, between the canopy & the main wing.
As usual, Jet Legend have included a lot of the necessary & good quality parts to make installation easy, & I'm sure most of you can put the plane together in a little more than a week. Unfortunately, being a natural born procrastinator, it will take a lot longer for me. Case in point, I have finished with the Oxai GP bipe installation since the beginning of the year, but still have not yet test it. Hopefully, I will have the chance for test flight in the next few weeks. Just don't hold your breath ...
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Since the installation is very straight forward, I will not be doing a complete build thread, but will post some updating pictures from time to time. In addition, my good friend George Asteris has been flying one for a few months now, & I'm sure he will have a better idea of the plane than myself. However, If anyone have any questions, feel free to post here or send me a PM.
Adrian