RE: C-160 Transall
Go to the twin-multi section here and rryman and i have pictures posted of our C-160's. We are located in Harrisonburg Va. Valley R/C Flying Club. You are welcome to come down and watch these beautiful planes in the air sometime. Randy and i just flew them on Jan 4th2004 , what a beautiful day in the 70's here. Randy has more experience with the twins, but i must say the C-160 flys like a trainer. We both have OS LA 25's on them and they are more power than needed for sure. I do believe a good BB 15 or 20 would fly these planes. The LA's turn the 9/5's about 11,000 and they fly very nicely at half throttle. TO run is about 75-100 ft on grass. They look some real on final. and with a little up held in they touch down on the mains and run along the runway for a bit til the nose wheel drops down. Very scale like landings. As i was told by twinman here, the most important thing you have to have is engine reliablity. I set mine up with mini servos in the nacelles, for throttle. It weighs 7.5 lbs ready to fly. I start the engine one at a time and set they engines individually for best performance. They are so close in RPM that i dont bother to match them exactly. I just want both running well. Some have said its best to detune the highest reving engine to the low one.. I never have bothered just have them both running reliable at idle, mid and high throttle. One bit of advice rryman told me about is how to attach the nacelles to the foam sheeted wing. Cut small pieces of Ny-Rod and epoxy them into the wing,then trim the Ny-Rod flush with the surface of the wing skin. The screws that come with the kit to hold on the nacelles then thread into the hole in the center of the Ny-Rod. works like a dream. The hardware the comes with the kit is pretty much junk, it was dicarded and replace with DuBro parts. The place where the fuel tanks go has to be modified to fit in the supplied tanks not a big deal but needs some attention. The nose wheel pieces are made of soft aluminum and needs to be redone.Randy and i both made a tray to mount the Rx on that stands up between the gear mounts, makes checking plugs in the Rx a lot easier. We both used a piece of Velcro glued to the floor of the fuse right behind the nose wheel bulkhead to hold the battery in place. It eliminates the need for nose weight if the battery is mounted back by the main wheels. The kit does not come with any decals some thats is up to up to find, we both used US markings on ours mine is Navy, Randy used USAF.
Hope that helps in the kit building(assembly) process's,
Pete