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Old 10-22-2002 | 12:42 AM
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Kallikrates
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Default Restoring a knife

I have recently rediscovered this hobby and got back flying after a 2 year hiatus (college and spending nearly 2 years worth of grass mowing money on a midwest extra 300s and being to scared to fly it)

Well I have an almost 4-5 year old morris knife thats never been crashed. The stab is crocked by a few degrees and the pull pull linkages need work, and I'm thinking about taking it off the moth-balls.

I was thinking of doing a recovering job and while I'm at it fix up what 3 years of crazy funflying does to an airframe and my rushed building. I have a .91 os 4 stroker and got the crazy idea to mabye put this engine on this plane. do you guys foresee and disasters with this setup?
The plane was built when I had no planes in the air so parts of it are a little rushed (the center section is a disater area of wires and balsa).

I was also thinking of relocating some of the servos to unclutter the center section. Move the aileron servoes out a bay or two on some bass rails or something mabye move the elevator servo out back infront of the stab.
I might just pull out the plans and rebuild a whole new airframe from them its not to hard I just regret not building the plane straight enough to do what I wanted to do with it the first time (I never hovered even tho back then hovering and tourqe rolling where basically all the 3d you did). However no matter how squirrly it flew it was always a fun plane.

Anyways what are your opinions?