Hey all, I just finished this about 10 minutes ago. What do you think? It has the Park 400 inrunner brushless, Phoenix 25 ESC, Thunder Power 1900mAh li-po, and HS-55 servos. I have a couple of questions; first, what is that large hole in the bottom of the fuse? Did I get a reject or something? [X(] I was thinking to just patch it up with some mailing tape until I get some transparent red ultracote. Also, I had to add 14 grams of lead to the nose to make it balance. Is that OK or normal? Without the lead, I had to move the battery so far foreward that it was covering the speed control. Also, would the speed control be OK where I have it now? Thanks a million

It looks great. You did a great on that airplane. Have fun flying it. What was your all up weight? did it come in between 22-26 oz?

1. That hole is for the air to escape after moving through the fuselage. It helps cool the battery and speedcontrol.
2. The speedcontrol should be fine. If you had to add 14 grams to your plane you might want to save your money and purchase a 3 cell 2100 battery. The Thunder Power. This battery will take care of the 14 grams. the 2100 weights about 5.5 ounces. Your 3 cell 1900 weights about 4.9 oz.


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Okay, thank you very much I would have gotten a 2100mAh, but my LHS is out of them and they said probably weeks before they can get more in, so I just went ahead and bought a 1900mAh from them, at a sacrafice of ~5 mins of flight time.

I've been out of flying for 15 years and I just bought one. I'm pretty excited about it.

I tried another ARF plane and was really disappointed in it. It flew like junk and it would never go where I pointed it. I had some of my old flying buddies try it and they didn't like it much either.

I came back because electric is clean and quiet, and it looks like you can fly them just about anywhere. Some of the prebuilt stuff is really, really nice too. I got sick of building planes years ago, and I would have never gotten involved again if I ever had to work that hard to have fun.

I was ready to just quit again when I saw this plane. I had lots and lots of sticks in the past and never had a bad one. Had about thirty or so really good ones, but never got one that didn't fly great. even a crooked one flew better than most other planes.

Since I'm used to large, real wood lairplanes, most of the electrics foamies and profile planes look like toys to me, and the really nice onces were either too expensive or too complicated for them to be much fun.

The Ultra Stick is nice and uncomplicated, just like the sticks I'm used to, and it's a real wood airplane too with all the radio gear and electric stuff inside the plane instead of being hung on the outside with velcro. It's extremely well build and I have no doubt it's going to fly beauifully. I've still got to get a motor and radio, but that will be later this week and I'll let you guys know how it goes from there.

Edit: How did I you get to be a "Super contributor" on my very first post?