Recently a Tower Kaos 40 ARF showed up at my doorstep! I have no clue why an ARF would be on my doorstep but it looked forlorn sitting there in the rain and I decided to take it in for safe keeping. While I have it, I thought it would be interesting to compare it to my modified kit built Koas 40, my NIB un-built kit and the old Tower MonoKote covered Kaos 40 ARF.

The first thing I noticed is that it is covered with some type of heat shrink covering that looks OK but is not as shinny as MonoKote. It has a few wrinkles that are typical with ARFs.

The distance from front of the wing to the nose the fuselage is slightly less than the MonoKote ARF and kit. The firewall also has built in right thrust and the front of the fuselage now has a U shaped brace in front. I’m not a big fan of right thrust. The motor mount is now a single piece metal unit rather than the two piece plastic unit used in the MonoKote ARF and kit. The shorter nose should help solve tail ballast weight that the MonoKote ARF required.

The red and white parts are the new ARF, the purple and white is the MonoKote ARF and the red, yellow, blue and white is the modified kit.