Last week I bought a replacement kit (ARF) for one that I crashed a couple weekends ago. The crashed airplane was a Goldberg Skylark 56. I was not that fond of the Skylark so no big loss there. But the repcacement, the Aerobat, well, now that's proving to be a very nice kit.

I went to that because of the write up given by Mr. Frank Granelli on AMA's Sport Aviator on-line magazine. The kit cost was reasonable and the build has turned out to be a breeze. Everything has gone as predicted by both Frank's article and the build instructions. I also bought a new OS .46 ABX engine for it and am using my Airtroncis RD6000 radio for it.

I was impressed by the way the kit has gone together. What remains, after a total of about 11 hours or so spent carefully building, is to connect the rudder and elevator servo's to the control surfaces and 'breaking in' the engine. Then comes maiden flight.

The ARF kit was complete right down to the rubber band wing hold-downs. Now that's complete. It came with two sets of landing gear.. one for trike the other for tail dragger (although the tail wheel was not included, the choice being up to the builder), everything needed to use either was in the kit, with the preferred (because that's what came with the kit) was trike with a nose-wheel.

I followed Frank's advice with some areas of the build and that seems to have built a better model although I must admit, the model was pretty thorough with easy to follow build instructions.

Perhaps next weekend I can report on how it flew. I will post pix when I take the time to take some <GRIN>.