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Old 03-13-2020, 06:30 AM
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From a building perspective, two things I really liked were:
-Landing gear: straight legs with a robust 1 piece carbon mount. I think these will be much more robust than most other pattern planes.
-Rudder servo push-pull in the tail

I wasn't initially a big fan of the removable chin cowl in an electric plane, but it provides great cooling and access to the motor/drive. Creating and fitting the motor mount was a lot easier. Seems like the nose design helps get more fuse side area up front for the improvements over the Allure Bryan mentions in the previous post.

I wouldn't recommend building your own foam/balsa wings unless you are an experienced builder. It's tricky to get the root profile to line up with the wing fillets molded into the fuse while maintaining all the required alignments.
The composite wings are probably well worth the time and difficulty.
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