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Old 05-02-2005 | 04:24 PM
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Default RE: Superstar 40 tips

ORIGINAL: USMeagle

man, sure made it look a heckuva lot better! I bet it does REALLY well in the air with the fourstroke..

My Superstar is on the building table now (H9 twist is in the flying rotation), gonna cut the wing, take out the dihedral, add some ply to the fuse and convert to a taildragger, and do the bolt-on conversion for the wing.

Thanks USMeagle, I haven't flown my trainer for about 3 years and decided to put it back into rotation. I started flying it again and got bored again also and decided then to change it up some. So I changed the color scheme slightly (blue stripe is now black if you didn't notice), put a Saito 72 with a 13x6 prop up front, did the bolt on wing conversion, maxed out the control surface throws and recently converted to a taildragger. It is so much fun now, but it still flys the same which is very easy but a little more responsive. I basically created a "Hobbico SuperStar Stick".

I was flying the plane yesterday and had the plane hovering. It will start to torque roll and did two complete revolutions, but will not stay there long due to the dihedral and small control surfaces even though they are maxed out. Several members are now considering converting their trainers into a TD.

If you are a seasoned pilot, then I suggest playing around with your trainer as I did to make it more fun, but the cool thing is that it is still a trainer when it needs to be.

I never really like the circus color scheme before.