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Old 11-29-2002 | 03:38 AM
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jjmiller1
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I got one earlier this year, nice flying plane, quite aerobatic too. Mine has a 46FX and a Tower muffler which fits nicely in the cowl/boxed firewall. Take your time making the elevator and rudder pushrods to make sure they have nice true bends and ignore the instructions and addendum concerning the length of the dowels, just build the tail ends of them, insert and attach them to the control surfaces, and then figure out where to cut them at the servo end. You'll see what I mean, I made mine twice. Do heed the manuals warning about using too much deflection on the elevator though, it really does get very snappy with big elevator throws, I've had a couple of close calls where I had to punch the throttle to get the tail flying again. It also slows much nicer on landing with an 11x5 prop, I had a 10x7 on her at first and that made for some pretty hot landings, too hot for me anyway. Mine was 6.25lbs and got a lot of compliments on it's looks, it is a pretty bird.

My 2 cents,

JJ