Craig,
The Albatross D-Va is a DPCModel's kit (
http://www.dpcmodels.homestead.com/). It is a rubber powered, stick-and-tissue, Free flight model converted to electric power and R/C. Dave's kits are all laser cut from just about perfect wood, parts fit is excellent, and since he makes the kits up on order, you get a kit that has any errors found by other builders corrected.
Power is from a 2-cell 170mah LiPoly pack, N-20 motor with Kenway 4:1 gearbox, Cirrus Micro-Joule Rx, Falcon 1.7 gram servos (
http://www.falconmodels.uk.com/) for Rudder & Elevator, 1 Cirrus M-J 2 gram servo in the top wing to run ailerons. Wheels on the model are from Sam's in the UK (
http://www.samsmodels.demon.co.uk/).
Radio gear access is through a removable hatch (you can see it in the close ups). The top wing and hatcha re one piece and are retained by 4 pairs of 1/8" x 1/16" rare earth magnets from ForceField / WonderMagnet.
Covering is tissue, water shrunk on the model, and Krylon clear spray to protect the tissue. Decals are all home made use decal paper and an color ink jet printer.
I pretty much hi-jacked a DPCM deign thread and show a lot of internal and construction details here:
http://www.smallflyingarts.com/cgi-b...num=1069362573