Hi all!

I'm in the same boat as Husker, with no clubs around, but plenty of places to go to practice and not hurt anybody or anything. After reading several very good reviews and many posts about the Hobbico Superstar EP, I bought one. The construction, for an ARF, is excellent, the hardware is decent and the covering job is very nice, with a couple of insignificant small wrinkles on the fuselage. It comes complete with a 7 cell 1700 MaH NiCd , a decent ESC and a fair Speed 600 motor, all for a hundred bucks. I have three 7 cell NiMh 2600 packs fot my Corona Helicopter that will be an improvement over the stock battery pack.

I am doing a couple of recommended mods ie: replacing the 3/32 wire gear with 1/8 th and making each leg 1-1/2 in. longer for more prop ground clearance an a wider stance. Also recommended is replacing the 1-3/4 in. wheels with 2-3/4 in. for better grassy ROG, and adding a tail wheel to mimimize (eliminate??) ground looping. It looks kinda nice, sorta like a real aircraft, and the battery pack loads through a very neat trap door under the cabin, so you don't have to take the wing off every 10 minutes. I thought that I could add ailerons or flaperons if I liked the way it flies, but for the moment I'm gonna keep it simple, chase myself around the field a tad, bang it up a bit, perhaps destroy it, then go from there.

Hope to have it in the air in a couple of weeks.

My two cents worth.

Happy and safe flying,

Russ