I hope everyone had a great holiday season and is ready for 2015. Since I'm still on a 'break' I decided to do something new to start the year... assemble a pattern ARF. OK, so maybe this isn't really new to me, but this plane is fairly new and I thought it'd be a great plane to add to the local scene.
This build will start slow because I am waiting on the rest of the parts so here's a preview of the ARF as I received it from
Tower Hobbies. I also received the
RimFire 1.20 motor which will be used. As for servos, the stabs will have Futaba
9650's. The suggested aileron servos are Futaba 9252's but I am going to use
9151's or
9551's instead. Suggested rudder servo is a
9155 but I think I'll go with the lighter
9151.
This will be built mostly stock. I won't be using the 4-40 supplied hardware, and will instead use 2mm carbon and 2/56 swivel links and clevis'. I think that on any 2M
Electric pattern plane, 4-40 is overkill and unnecessary weight IMO. I will also look into adding a hatch latch for battery access ease and will order the
front motor mounting assembly* instead of using the aluminum motor mount.
Having read through the
manual a couple of times, it looks like it will be a fairly easy assembly and shouldn't take too long once I get everything together.
http://www.greatplanes.com/airplanes/gpma1232.html
