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Old 01-14-2004 | 11:49 AM
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Default First Airplane, need advice/comments

Hi all,

I used to build small rubberband powered aiplanes when I was a kid, now that I have a better financial situation, I decided to go back into the hobbie. I purchased a SIG Kadet LT 25 about 2 weeks ago. This one being my first r/c plane I did a few mistakes, one of them was the angle of the wings, I made the 3 degree angle on the wrong side. Therefore when I glued the wings together, nothing was flush So after a 1 hour of sanding, I finally got the top portion of the wings flush, but the bottom portion had an inverted V if you know what I mean. So I stuffed some small balsa sheets to fill the gap and glued everything with CA. I didn't glue the wings with epoxy. I glued the 1 inch fiber fabric on top and bottom of the wing with CA. Apart from this, the airplane is straight and true.

I will use a OS .25FX engine to power this baby.

Now my questions are:

1- Will my wings rip apart because of my bad angle and lack of epoxy? Will they rip apart if I just fly around and don't do any loops or anything that could put a lot of pressure? The wings do look solid...
2- Will the .25FX engine be enough, I've hear that the Kadet LT 25 with an OS .25FX will outrun most .40 trainers! Is this true?
3- I'm hesitating between buying a 4 channel Futaba and 6 Channel. There is a 100$ difference, should I go ahead and buy the 6 channel for future models, or should I wait because using the flaps is for really advanced flyers and I could spare the money but if you tell me that I'm going to want to have a 6 channel for flaps pretty quickly, then I will go ahead and buy the 6 channel.


Thank you all!