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Old 11-07-2004 | 10:06 PM
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eewannab
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Default RE: Hobbico Sukhoi

I put 6 flights on my Sukhoi before I dumb-thumbed it. Flew allright with an OS61FX, but not much vertical performance.

First flight was a real handfull. Even with carefull building and balancing it was extremely out of trim. Highly pitch sensitive and rolling hard left. After getting it trimmed out I really liked it. Landings were very fast at the recommended CG. I added 3 onces of lead to the tail, and the airplane finally slowed down on landings. I stuffed it after making a stupid mistake on high rates with way too much expo.

Build quality is average.

I've since rebuilt it, and have mounted a supertigre G90. First flight with new engine should be this coming weekend.