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Old 10-01-2004 | 03:36 PM
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Default RE: Almost there!

For mine I used a great planes 2/3A 8 cell 1100 mah pack, a great planes 20 amp ESC, a hitec feather receiver, 4 hitec hs-55 servos and the stock motor/gearbox/prop. Oh and I was doing it with the begginers wing.

Mine flew fine, for the little bit that I got to fly it that is It only got about 10 minutes of total flight time. Just dont try doing loops with the begginers wing and the stock prop, mine just stalled out and did a nose in crash. It broke the wing, broke the firewall, and messed up the gearbox.

I fixed the wing, made a new (much better) firewall, and got a new gearbox. Its now ready to fly again but I cant fly until a get a new receiver crystal (got broke in a inverted crash with a curb while using it in my hyperwing), my crystal wont come in until thursday so its going to be a while before I get to fly again, not too bummed out though because its supposed to rain most of next week so I couldnt fly anyways.

The stock wheels are too small to land/takeoff on grass (they just sunk down in it) so I got some 2 1/2" spoked foam wheels from aircraft-world, seems like it rolls on grass fine now.

If you want to save a little weight you can leave off the landing gear and just do hand launches and belly lands. Im not a fan of hand launching so I used the gear on mine.