Have you flown your Quickie yet?
I crashed mine on the first flight. I had a .52 4 stroke and it took off but took a long takeoff roll. Then I couldn't get it to turn or stay at altitude. I had full back stick and it barely climbed.
What control throws have you set up? I think it ran out of throw on the canard, and yes I had it set where down is climb on the canard.
Any thoughts would be great as I'm about to order another Quickie.
ORIGINAL: Crazy4Flight
ORIGINAL: jmupilot
Has anyone seen or flown one of these yet? Saw them advertised for sale on EBay for the first time this week. I'm looking really hard at the Long EZ or the Quickie. I like diferent looking aircraft. Price seems about right at $199 retail, we all know looks can be deceiving.
Here's the link to thier website
http://www.avia-richmodel.com/englis...iew.asp?ID=173
Pete
Pete,
You are right looks can be and usually are deceiving! I got both arf's amonth ago off ebarf. open the boxes and the porduct looked good and was packaged pretty good too.
Tonight I started on the Quickie, the manual is good two things the CG location and emergency toilet paper![:@] Control throws were not given, and the 3rd step had you glue the canopy to the wing!
The firewall will need triangle stock, the prebent landing gear wires for the canard will both need a rebend job to fit right, wheel pants will need to be carved a bit to suit.
Ailerons needed a groove cut to clear the torque rods (same with the elevators) Aileron servo mount too high, There version of a fast link hits servo case! what you need to do here is sand the bottom at an angle to tilt the servo back towards the trailing edge. And cut yourself a notch to get your wire out. Also you will need to carve at the base of the torque rod to get enought movement. On to the wing Locating dowels... the MANUAL FORGOT ALL ABOUUT THESE, well the LE in the canard is not very thick (strong) I am going to cut new dowel material long enought to go back the the main spar. A blob of epoxie ought to hold the back end in place. 1" +/-long supplied dowel will work its way loose in time.
end of part #1
bob
do these arf makers ever have average Joe flyers assemble the "beta" kits?