RE: PICA Spitfire 1/5 Please Help
Spitty,
I built the PICA and scaled it out. It took a lot of work "up front" to make it scale, but it came out quite nice except the wing was just not right. Weight was 23 lbs with ST 3000 on ingnition with 5 lbs of lead. I crashed it on the first flight as the cg was goofy. I hated the wing (too thick at the tips among other things) so I pitched the wing and ordered a Yellow A/C wing kit. Beautiful even at the cost. Got the CG right, but taxiing was impossible as it nosed over every time. Ripped the retracts out and moved them an inch fwd (the heck with scale in this area) and now all is fine. If you have the CG in the right location you won't be able to taxi on anything but pavement and even then it will be "iffy".
Bish