Tom gave me a call a few days ago and asked if I would be interested in performing a kit review for the new 1.20 sized Edge. needless to say, I was reasonably excited to be considered for the opportunity and told him yea. The down side is that I'm in the middle of another project for a kit review and I will have to enlist another of the areas club members that I trust completely to do the building.

In further conversations with Tom, it was noted that this particular plane had originally belonged to someone else, but it had received some of that cursed UPS freight damage[>:] in the shipping process, which the new owner didn't feel the need to deal with. That's very understandable. I agreed to make the necessary repairs if they weren't too invloved, and the plane arrived on my door step today, Tuesday the first. Lucky me, they are pretty minor. 2 hours work at the most, and most of that in hiding the cuts I will have to make in the covering on the bottom of the wings to repair some sheeting damage.

Opening the box and my first impression was WOW! That's a good looking plane! Taking the parts out of the box and is was lighter by far that I thought it would have been. Speaking of the box, it comes in a box almost exactly the size that the 28% planes arrives in.

I noted that almost all the hinging had been done by the original owner, and that the tail wheel assembly had already been installed, making the assembly process that much shorter. This is going to be a quick build! The hardware package that is available for the plane is the usual high quality parts that you would normally purchase yourself at the local hobby shops. Pretty good deal, IMO. I just love one stop hobby shopping!!

I took a couple of pictures to get this started. I will be giving the plane to Bill Simunek of the Mountain R/C Flyers to do the assembly work so it can get out to the field sooner that it would if I performed the assembly. I will be following the process closely and will be flying the hooters off of it before passing it along to the club member. More to follow as the saga continues...

Pat